Well, I did want her to learn to read and write
But this wasn’t exactly what I had in mind:
Hey, at least that’s funny. What I found written on the Magnadoodle several hours later wasn’t funny.
Okay, maybe it was.
Remember the scene from “A Christmas Story” when they get a flat tire and Ralphie gets out to help his father change the tire and the bolts go flying and Ralphie says, “Fuck!” and his mother later asks, “Where did you hear that word?”
Then the narrator says, “Now I had heard that word at least 10 times a day from my old man. My father worked in profanity the way other artists would work in oils or clay. It was his true medium, a master.”
When Kyle asked her, “Where did you hear that word?” she looked up at me and burst into tears.
I guess I’m her old man.
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Her newly acquired skills are causing me angst in other areas too. For the details, check out my review of The Daring Book for Girls.
Also, thank you for the kind words on Saturday. Self-pity does not come easy to me; I realize that, compared to many people, I live my life on a fluffy pink cloud of cotton candy. But every once in a while, I’ve got to wallow a bit too.
Finally, to Adam Vinatieri - YOU SUCK.
November 12th, 2007 at 5:56 am
This definitely belongs in the memory book. Too funny!
And yeah, Vinatieri did indeed suck last night.
November 12th, 2007 at 9:26 am
I am ROLLING with laughter here, because I say “Christ on a cracker” ALL the time. I even wrote it in a blog post last week! But I’ve never seen it on a MagnaDoodle, that is hilarious
November 12th, 2007 at 10:02 am
No, THANK YOU to Adam Vinatieri. You made Chargers fans oh-so-happy last night. You rule.
November 12th, 2007 at 10:24 am
Ha! That is insanely funny.
We found a “What the fuck” written on the magnadoodle a couple weeks ago, the wife was not amused.
November 12th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Don’t get me wrong; I don’t give a crap about the Colts as a team. But thanks to Vinatieri choking, I lost my FF game by 1.5 points.
November 12th, 2007 at 11:53 am
Yes, I’d shower Vinatieri with a few choice words myself … but I still would’ve lost my game.
“Kriste on a crakr” is priceless.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Very good. As a first-hand witness, the magna-doodle is a powerful toy.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Maggie wrote “Will stinks” on her chalkboard.
He wasn’t even poopy. She just wasn’t feeling the love that day.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Wait ’til she says it at church.
THEN we’ll talk.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Ah yes…the joys of the written word and little stenographers.
My eldest was an early reader. Once when she was about 4, we were in a doctor’s packed waiting room and there was a Cosmo sitting on the table.
She looked at me and then asked in a voice that was not an indoor voice: WHAT IS A “BETTER ORGASM”?
At least she wasn’t quoting me, lol.
I love A Christmas Story. Ralphie’s dad is a hoot.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
I love that movie!! I had forgotten that line!
November 12th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
BWWAAAAAAHAHAHAHA!!!
Holy Hell.
I totally swiped ‘christ on a cracker’ from you and now this?!
OOOOh, this is a good one.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
That is totally funny, I remember when my four year old got mad at my husband and said “son-of-a-b*tch” and stormed out of the room. It still makes me cry with laughter.
November 12th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
I’m fully convinced that this could be Peanut’s first word, and will be uttered, of course, in the presence of her grandmother. Of this I’m sure.
November 12th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Ha! It is scary that what comes out of our mouths will eventually come out of theirs. Or at least their magnadoodles.
November 13th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Ahahahaha. Oh Tacy. You are a spunky little woman!
I was lucky Seth couldn’t prounce his “f”’s. When he was little, out of frustration one day, I said, “F*CKING CAR!” THe whole way home and for weeks I heard, “Buckin Cah!”
Also, I would say, “SH*t”. Of course he could say that perfectly clear. So when he’d say that, I’d say, “Yes, Sit!” So eventually I phased that one out.
The hubby would tell anybody who’d listen, “He’s picked up the cursing from HER, NOT ME!”
November 13th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
I’m sorry for your pain, but I’m LOL here! Kriste on a Crakr is priceless!
November 16th, 2007 at 8:26 am
he he he…
I say Crap on a Stick all the time and gush what two lovely’s picked it up….
Children are wonderful aren’t they