Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Let me just come clean and tell you all that I cuss. A habit I picked up sometime in elementary school {I’m not kidding.} I’ve not kept it a secret of my redneck past, so no one should be surprised?! I’ve always kept my blog clean – or tried to anyways. There have been plenty of times while proof reading, I’m thinking dang there is an “adjective!” Now, mind you – I talk exactly as you are reading this – just I probably talk much faster than you read, . . . and there are sometimes a few “adjectives” added.
Since having kids, I’m no where near as bad as I was. And actually I don’t think my kids have ever heard an “adjective,” such as these I’m talking about, to come out of my mouth! But I do spell them – out loud – at appropriate times . . . but that is only if you consider using “adjectives” appropriate.
The story I’m about to tell is one of those appropriate times . . .
A couple of weeks ago, Emme kept saying, “Awww shit” and smile the biggest smile. Sometimes even start laughing. And she kept doing it over and over. I was trying to be nonchalant about it, “Emme, girl – what are you saying?” I swear I didn’t want her to keep saying it, but I was trying to make sure I understood her! And again she would say, “Awww shit!” All I kept thinking was great, Lonnie was right – mother like daughter! Not quite sure how I was going to nip this without drawing attention to it – especially since I had NO IDEA where it came from!
Then it happened, Hudson sneezed. And Em followed with, “Awww shit!”
Dawned on me – I think she meant “Achoo!”
Still funny. And I got more.
Again, randomly, Emme is saying, “A shit, a shit!” I cannot for the life of me figure out what she is talking about! Smart lil’ cookie that she is, found a paper fish and brought it to me.
That’s right, she meant, “A fish!”
And I’m not done.
Yesterday, she kept pointing outside and saying, “Shit peas.” But I was on it this time! I knew she was saying “Ship, please.” Only because we have nothing in our back yard except a huge play ship and she was pointing out the backdoor. But I’m still wondering why so many words sound like “shit!”
Well, I was telling a friend the story on the phone last night. I wasn’t on the phone but maybe 10 minutes and the kids were running around, not paying a lick of attention to me. Well, like normal {when I’m cussing,} I spell out S-H-I-T {in a quiet voice} when telling the story of all the times Em was saying it.
No big deal.
Got off the phone. Bathed the kids. Did the bedtime routine. Everyone crashed. I came downstairs and started picking up the remnants of the day.
And there it was. On the new/old coffee table. The doodle board.
The doodle board that Lawson is always working on like mad.
My 3 year old completely picked up on that phone conversation. AND remembered the letters in order! I’m kinda proud that not only did he remembered them in order, but he wrote them!!!
The question – is this a baby book moment? At the age of 3, Lawson’s first written word was “Lawson” and the second was “shit.” Only because his almost 2 year old sister wouldn’t stop saying it and I, his mother, felt compelled to spell it out knowing good and well that he most certainly would hear it since it is a letter sequence and his number obsession has now stretched to include letters.
Yes, because I’m so classy, I do think it is a baby book moment that will be written down to cause me mental discomfort each time I read it.
Pray for me – the next 20+ years are going to be scary.
AND thank you all for such kind words about the new blog! I think it was a great move and I’m looking forward to many more posts! I’ll leave the drawing open till Monday evening.
I have finished some art – should be posted tomorrow! {I’ve not sealed them – therefor the numbers haven’t dropped! They have to be completely-complete to drop a number!}
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!! I don’t even HAVE anything to say!!
Oh….KIM! That is so funny. We all have stories like that….esp. us Bell girls
Well, thanks to my husband who didn’t learn to control the potty language around our sweet adorable daughter, my little Bug’s fifth word actually was “SHIT” and she used it right. She’d drop something and say “Shit.” She’d stub her toe… she’d get in trouble…
It took about 2-3 weeks of just casually saying “uh ohhhh ” every time she said “shit” to get rid of it and now 5 years later she hasn’t said it since. In fact now she thinks the “s” word is “stupid.”
Girl.. That is too funny! I didn’t write it when I was little, I just spelled it back to my grandmother when I dropped something one afternoon just like she did when she dropped a hot pan! They never spelled around me again!
Too hilarious! I think we as parents have all had one of these moments – I want to know how they always know the proper way to use it!
That is the best story! Good for Lawson. I have a 3 year-old and I don’t think he even knows a letter yet! Pretty impressive.
Ohmygosh…..tooooo funny! They are like little sponges aren’t they? I love it.
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Awwww… Kids are just soooo adorable. cute story!
That made me laugh! My spelling days are over too… When my oldest would say Quack it sounded like a “four letter word”. We had fun with it having her say things like, “Quack you Grandpa!” Oh the good ole days when our kids were too young to realize what was going on around them.
I LOVED THIS!!!! LOL!!!!!! IT IS ABSOLUTELY A BABY BOOK MOMENT! Ha! Those kids are SMART!!!! THat totally cracked me up!
(the only thing about your new blog is how tiny the font is….I’m old man, help a sista out!
ROFLMAO!!!!!! Thank you for the warning, my 3 year old loves letters and spelling things out…and would totally do this!
Good grief! That is hysterical!! Ummm ya should of known you can’t spell stuff around your kids you don’t want brought up later. It was LETTERS!
That is the BEST story ever! My three year old cussed one time when he was doing a puzzle and he couldn’t find the right piece. I quickly said, “Where you learn THAT from?” Well, as you can imagine he told me (and my husband who was standing there too). *BUSTED* That was the last time I ever asked one of those kind of questions!
that is too hilarious! love it! hahaha
We really try to limit what the kids watch, listen to, and watch our mouths. When my son was 5, we picked him up from school and the teacher said she needed to talk to us. My son is REALLY short, and gets picked on a lot for it (still, he is almost 8 now). Apparently, one of the older kids at daycare called him a “midget” bc he was mad at my son about something. Well, my son call him…an a**hole.
Of course we had a long talk with him about it, but how can you get mad at that?!
Too funny! Wait until they try to say “truck”… It came out sounding like F-U-C-K for BOTH of my boys! And when my oldest was calling to my friend’s cat he kept saying “I like titties! Here, titty, titty titty!” She would then ask him to repeat it as she was single with no kids and he replied, ” I like u titty”!
Too. Funny.
Kim, this is priceless! I’m trying not to laugh out loud.
I totally relate! I say the bad words in this family…..a bad habit that I picked up from my days workign for the juvenile court in Fayetteville, AR. My 4 year old has added a few to his vocab. Funniest was when we were watching a crazy comedy and some kid got hit by a car and Aaron yelled SOB(whole phrase). It was pretty funny an would have probably come from my mouth if I was the kid who got hit.
Oh my gracious! You are hystrical! When my oldest was about 18 months, we were in Wal-mart shopping and she would hollar “shit” and I would just DIE laughing. It was so funny because my mother, who btw never cusses, had just said it under her breath and was mortified that her granddaughter was repeating it. It was so funny!
I would be totally proud about the spelling!!! That’s genius!
Hysterical!!
Oh Em Gee That was funny stuff….
I curse worse then a sailor and ALWAYS say damnit… Needless to say so do my kids when they feel the need. Usually in the right sentence form as well.
Hang in there!
LOL! I have a foul mouth but thankfully no kids to corrupt! A friend of mine’s father picks up her son from school and watches him. Said father has a potty mouth and she has always been on him to watch what you say around B. Well, B picked up the word shit. Luckily, he doesn’t say it at school but he says it around Pappy and other family. I try not to laugh when he says it around me only because I don’t want to encourage him to keep it up.
I’m on the “I think this is cute” side of the fence on this one : ). Your picture of the doodle board made me laugh out loud, because as a small child our aunt (my mom’s wacky sister) used our Magna-Doodle to teach my sister and I swear words (much to our mother’s horror and our great delight!). The Magna-Doodle story is one that gets told over and over a lot in my family. It was definitely a priceless childhood moment!
This post made me laugh. When my daughter was around three she heard that same word when we were watching the movie ” Seabiscuit” on HBO. We had gotten it free for two weeks when we switched cable companies. So of course we told her that we don’t say that word. After we told her she asks “Can I say wrench?”. We laughed and said yes you can say that, then she said ” Ok, wrench but not shit”. I have no idea how the word wrench popped in her head but we laugh about it till this day and she is 7.
You have GOT to be kidding me! OMG that is hilarious!!! LOL