Thank Goodness It Wasn't His First Word

So if you know me at all, you know that my level of cursing is quite infamous. When I was pregnant with my first, B, we joked about what his first words might be and came to the conclusion that we would be LUCKY if it was not "MF." Fortunately for me, it wasn't.

B is unbelievably bright and amazingly verbal. He started babbling at 10 months, was using sign language shortly thereafter and spoke his first word just shy of 11 months....dada.

And now, here we are just shy of 3.5 and I am in awe of the language skills he employs. You always hear from anyone and everyone who wants to give you advice about children that little ears really ain't so little and being a "parrot" is an understatement. However, in our case, B is not only a parrot - this child actually understands the context of the words we use and uses them appropriately following hearing them ONCE.

So - my little story. I'm sure from the description above you can clearly see the picture that is my daily frustration outburst(s). Although I felt like my mutterings were under my breath...little ears ain't so little. We were hiking our way through the mountain of weekly laundry and B was helping me sort colors, whites, towels, reds, little socks, etc. and after we created multiple piles I was asking him to slow down. After several requests, and the complete refusal to hear me due to the enjoyment of flinging clothes across the laundry room, I said quite firmly "B - leave it be." And then he muttered, with total exasperation and flinging his hands up in the air "[sigh], F**k it."

My first reaction, to my amazement, was a bit of shock. Which then registered into slight humor as I followed him into the kitchen asking what he said. The response "Nothing." After repeated questions, along with one final assurance that I would not be angry if he told me the truth, my little baby told me what he said. I proceeded to explain that was bad language and was not to be used in our home. I haven't heard it since. And I haven't said it since.

Luckily in this case, we hadn't explained the proper definition of this phrase and therefore my innocent little one really didn't know what it meant. But he sure knew how to use it properly.