Out of the mouths of babes

Yuki has learned a new word. At age 3, little kids are magnets for language that's inappropriate and only stated at the most inconvenient/embarrassing times.

Yuki chose to test this new word while visiting my mom (great-grandma Charlotte). Out of his seemingly innocent mouth, for the first time, and in front of my mom, Yuki said, "Damn it!". Of course, this elicited a long lecture from my daughter on how that word is not a "nice" word, and we shouldn't say it. Hmmm. I wonder who he learned it from? Surely not me.

A week or two later, Elizabeth heard a bang coming from Yuki's room, and she heard Yuki announce, "Damn it!" She said, "Yuki, what did you just say?" His reply? "I said MOMMY!" Now THAT's a quick learner.

What brought this story to my mind tonight was when Joe and I were watching TV and the circuit breaker tripped throwing us into darkness. My response? "DAMN IT!"

Yuki's a chip off the old block. 'Nuff said.