CamCam was a very late talker. He actually said his first word at a very early age, and his second soon after, and then that was it for the longest time. Eventually he added a few more words, but he was always way behind where he should be. He never even did the typical baby babble. When he hit 2 years though, he started to talk more. Now he chats all day long, although he still has a lot of catching up to do.
Whenever he hears a word, he'll repeat it. Like the other day, the TV was on and CamCam was playing in the same room as it, but not watching it. However, and this is a REALLY good lesson for us all to remember, even when kids act like they are not paying attention to what's being said around them, they're actually taking in every word. So someone on the TV yells Charlie and then CamCam yells Charley! We laugh, so he says it over and over.
Today I had an oops. A big, bad-mommy oops. Last night I made a turkey for dinner. I put all the bones in a pot for today. Today I filled the pot with water, covered it, and put it on the stove to come to a boil. I kept checking on it, but man, it takes forever when you're waiting for water to boil. So I sat down at the table to eat lunch and started poking around on the Internet.
I totally forgot about that pot of turkey water on the stove.
Until I heard the dreaded "sssssssttttttt" noise of water boiling over. I looked over, and saw water pouring over the pot, and the flame under the pot scarily huge as it feasted on the fat from the turkey water. I jumped a mile and said it.
Yes, THAT one.
Oh sh..... You know the rest, I can't even type it. I was raised that swearing is wrong, and so I'm opposed to swearing. But I said it.
Guess who was sitting right next to me? And guess what he said?
Oh sh..., oh sh..., he says over and over. Most of the time when he talks, it's hard for anyone but his family to understand what he's saying, but not with this. Crystal clear. Perfect enunciation.
Another thing about kids is the more you try to get them to stop something, the more they do it. So every "CamCam, we don't say that word" was met with a "oh sh... ma". And every "CamCam mommy was naughty, she shouldn't have said that" was met with "sh... sh.... sh...." So I shall ignore it for now and hope he forgets.
Although we all know that won't happen.
He'll remember at a very inappropriate time when I'm out in public.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
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I'll be there in a little over a week. Let's see if he's still saying it. If he is, I promise to go into another room to laugh.
ReplyDeleteHappy SITS Saturday!
ReplyDeleteIsn't that the way it always goes...no one is listening until you make a mistake. Hope he stops repeating it soon! Or you could give him a little boat and get him strangely attached to it, so that he'll take it everywhere with him. Then when he blurts out shi*, you can laugh and correct him with shiP. hahaha
And man, when he drops that bomb in front of the wrong people, you'll just be thinking "oh [insert your even worse expletives for him to learn here]."
ReplyDeleteI'm totally paranoid that my daughter's first words will have 4 letters - causing huge threats to my husband (who always come back with, but "mama" and "dada" have four letters).