Rats and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails...

[Adina P]

That's what our next addition is made of!   Coming late August/Early September Natalie, Rosco, and Boca are getting a little brother!!! Natalie was temporarily named Wiggle Worm and this little guy's in utero name is "Peanut" :-)  We have far to go in deciding a real name.  He and Natalie will be about 21 months apart.

 

 

 

[Donna K & Quincy]

Congrats, I can see already that he has his father'e hairline. :>)

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

How exciting! Congratulations. One of each will be so nice :)

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

Congratulations Adina and Clark!

[Anne & Mr. Haley]

Congratulations!!!

[Jane, Rooney & Stuart]

So exciting!!!!  Congrats!

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Congratulations!  Finally got on the computer and read your announcement!  I can't wait!  I am voting for August 27th for Flash Muscle Man  or FMM.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

No rats. (Rats???!!!)

What Are Little Boys Made Of?

From the above Wikipedia article:

Here is a representative modern version of the lyrics:

What are little boys made of?

What are little boys made of?

Frogs and snails

And puppy-dogs' tails,

That's what little boys are made of.

As would be expected given its status in popular tradition, the rhyme appears in many variant forms. For example, other versions may describe boys as being made of "slugs",^[2][3] "snakes",^[4][5] or "snips",^[6] rather than "frogs" as above.

[edit] Origins

In the earliest known versions, the first ingredient for boys is either "snips" or "snigs",^[7] the latter being a Cumbrian dialect word for a small eel.

The rhyme sometimes appears as part of a larger work called "What Folks Are Made Of" or "What All the World Is Made Of". Other stanzas describe what babies, young men, young women, sailors, soldiers, nurses, fathers, mothers, old men, old women, and all folks are made of. According to Iona and Peter Opie, this first appears in a manuscript by the English poet Robert Southey (1774–1843), who added the stanzas other than the two below.^[1] Though it is not mentioned elsewhere in his works or papers, it is generally agreed to be by him.^[8]

The relevant section in the version attributed to Southey was:

What are little boys made of made of

What are little boys made of

Snips & snails & puppy dogs tails

And such are little boys made of.

[Lynn D.]

That is great! Congrats.

[Adina P]

I can find 'frogs', 'snakes', and 'rats' referenced as the 1st word in that line.... And yes I'm hoping for a little Clark with curly hair too!

[ClarkP]

We included that second "Muscle Man" arm image because it appears that this fetus has better deltoid muscles than either his father or his mother!  And he's flexing just to show off.  :-)