The Onesie That Would Not Compute

We recently got a present from one of Sarah's cousins that included a number of onesies (which are, by the way, very cute). As you may know—depending on your experience with babies—many of the onesies and t-shirts come with little sayings on them. They usually come in one of three types:

1. I [the baby] am awesome.
2. [Insert title of relative] is awesome.
3. I [the baby] am cute and/or mischievious [if a boy] / materialistic/acquisitive [if a girl]

But one of our new shirts doesn't fit the paradigm at all, and it's been confusing me each and every time Nicholas has worn it the last two weeks or so. It reads:

"I am MOMMY's hero (when dad's not around)."

If you read the t-shirt literally, "mommy" worships the baby, except when "dad" is around, in which case she worships her husband. (By the way, only I could come up with a way to complain about being idolized.) But that is such an indirect message that it doesn't really make sense. In that formulation, the baby has very little to do with the action of the epigram, which is singularly odd. My guess, then, is that it means to read, "Mommy is my hero (when dad's not around)," which would fit it more firmly in category 2 above. That would be fine with me, of course. But if the shirt was meant to read as written, then I'm somewhat perplexed. Technically, it's not a problem. It just seemed funny (ha-ha and head-scratching) to me.

Mostly though, I've been amused. But if sharing means that someone else can come up with a workable theory, all the better.