George has learned his first bit of profanity. Several weeks ago one of my dear friends was sharing the latest horrendous thing that her ex-husband had done and I inadvertently let out an "Oh, shit!" forgetting that George was in the room with me. George had been quietly playing with his toys and suddenly started singing "Oh, shit, oh, shit, oh shit". At first I didn't realize what had happened, and then DH cleared his throat and raised his eyebrows at me. Oops. I'm so not winning Mom of the Year anytime soon. We ignored him and he stopped and didn't repeat it again, so I thought I was out of the woods. But I forgot that our son has a mind like a steel trap.
Flash forward to last week, a few weeks after the swearing incident. We are in the middle of rural America, the nation's Heartland, at a Walmart store, shopping for a locking hitch pin for the U-haul we are bringing back home from DC. All of a sudden George starts sing-songing "Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit". DH and I look at each other, raise our eyebrows and decide what we should do. I redirect George, "Are you talking about sitting? Yes, you are sitting in the shopping cart" and then I make a song up about 'Oh, we sit in the cart. Oh, sit. Oh, sit". And I rush us out of the store.
The next day DH is driving us, pulling the trailer behind, and he hits a large pothole in the middle of the highway. From the backseat comes an angelic "Oh, shit!" DH says, "Well, at least he knows how to use it appropriately." And we both giggle.
Yesterday, George breaks into his inappropriate song again while playing with his toys. Luckily, he received a Fisher-Price boat for Christmas, so we start talking about the ship. "Oh, where is the ship? Oh, ship, where are you?"
Today George was playing with his fire truck and drove the fire truck up the steep stuffed animal "mountain". One of the firefighters fell out of the truck. George said, "Oops" and then told the fireman "Stop it!" as he put the fireman back into the truck. I told this story to DH and he said, "At least he didn't say 'Oh, shit'".