Four Letter Words

Tonight, Aimee was looking for a song for their cheer dance for the Halloween pep rally.  Of course, a lot of the hiphop songs often slip in some less-than-choice words.  On one particular song, I asked her
"What words are bleeped out of this?"
"Um, the "f" word"
Allie immediately chimed in, "What's the "f" word? .... Mom, Aimee, what's the 'f' word?.... Oh, is it *whispering* fat??"

Sure, babe.  It's fat.
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This conversation reminded me that I hadn't shared Aidan's choice phrase.  Apparently, while playing a video game, Dustin heard him exclaim, "Holy S&@*"  He asked him why he said it and Aidan told him it was because it means "when something is really awesome of cool, that's what it means."  WHAT??? Where did he get that?  Oh... "it was on "I Am Number Four". "

I know, I know.  I don't usually do such a horrible job of age-inappropriate movies.  But he watched this one while I was gone, and was totally addicted.  Those who watched it assured me that they skipped the scary parts. Great.

So, he has now been told that if he can't edit it from his language, the movie is bye-bye because there are lots of great words to use, but that isn't one of them.  He's only slipped a couple times.  Like, I'll hear him say it when something is really really cool, and then it is followed directly with "I mean HOLY COW".  Mostly it's gone, though.  I just thought it was pretty funny that he latched on to a cool new vocabulary word and used it in its proper context, as far as exclamations go.  This is why children develop such a vast vocabulary in such a small amount of time. Because their minds want to grow and learn and discover.  And generally, his mind learns all the right things. Really. I promise.

Random Quotes From Post-It Notes While Cleaning Out My Purse

I just bought a very cute new notepad for my purse. The old one was a sticky pad that I got from our hotel in Hawaii. It was cute; it's all used up and wrinkled and the pages are bent. I'm so glad that I wrote these quotes down, because I didn't remember them until I cleaned out my purse today!

Do you remember the Standin' Tall tapes?! We listened to The Land of Obey so often that it broke. When I ordered the CD's I realized that it had been broken long enough that Allie wasn't even familiar with them. I also learned that there's a reason that I forgot some of them. I love some of the stories...really don't like a couple of them. Captain Dependable is one of our favorites, but there's a bit of a technology gap in the story. Captain Dependable becomes UNdependable thanks to Professor Un and his Procrastinite. He sings, "In a minute, in a while, I will do it, with a smile...when the commercial comes I'll jump right up and do it!" Allie didn't see the point in his procrastination..."He should just pause it." I told her that when they wrote the song, they didn't have DVR's that can pause the TV show while you're watching it. How funny that she thought that was just weird.

An older man at church was relating a story about his meeting with his mother and siblings. He talked about how glad he was that they could all meet together. The quote I wrote:
"I was grateful that I was with my family and walking across that parking lot without a hitch in my get-along." I laughed to myself and continued to laugh because...well, that phrasing is just funny.

Of course, Aidan is full of cute quotes right now. He's learning new words and new phrases every day and figuring out how they all fit in to conversation. One thing he expresses right now is repetition...like the same word in order to place great emphasis...
"My teemy ay ayee ayee ayee ayee ayee hungee." (my tummy is very very very very very very hungry.)
"This ay ay ay ay ay ay ay ay cweepy." (this is very very.....creepy)
"Lally pin pin pin pin pin me wound wound wound wound wound wound wound and wound. I deezy!" (Allie spun me around and around....I'm dizzy!)

I found a lot of less interesting things in my purse too, but totally not worth sharing.