Kaitlyn swears like a sailor...

The following story is rated PG-13 due to language content. I have edited some words, but feel I should warn certain individuals (i.e. Grandma and Nana).

Lately, especially as Kaitlyn is approaching two years old (July 26th), she is beginning to imitate what others say. Sometimes Katy's pronunciation of a word is not all together accurate and she will say different words when she means something else. I have two examples that I would like to share that neither Jared nor myself are proud of, but we do find slightly hilarious after the fact.

Several weeks ago we were at a steak house eating dinner (mind you neither of us ordered steak, because unfortunately it was not my birthday or our anniversary). Anyway, Jared ordered a strawberry lemonade and Kaitlyn was fiercely eyeing it. She would reach her hands out across the table and whine until we gave her some. We would then ask her "do you want a sip"? This was a mistake, because apparently her pronunciation of "sip" is "sh*t". She didn't just say "sh*t" she shouted "sh*t" over and over again! We decided to finish dinner quickly as we were getting weird looks from nearby tables.

The second story I would like to share takes place in the car. For some reason every time we were in the car Kaitlyn would say the word "f***" over and over again. Jared and I were horrified when we heard this, because this is a horrible vulgar word and we never use it even when experiencing road rage in the car. Anyway, after telling Katy "no" every time she said this word in the car we started to think that maybe a kid at daycare had taught her this word (if your child attends daycare it's easy to blame any bad habits on the school). So the next day I asked her teachers if there were any children that use bad words in the class and proceeded to tell them that Katy would always say this bad word in the car. One of her teachers started laughing, because apparently there is a child in the class who cannot pronounce her "T's" and when they play with the cars and trucks she calls a truck "a f***". They have been working with this child to correct this word, however, Katy seemed to have picked it up. So the reason she was always saying "f***" in the car is because she would see a truck and wanted to tell us. Who would have thought!

Hope you got a laugh out of this. We have since correctly taught Katy how to say both "sip" and "truck"!

Katy puts mamma and pappa to bed

It's so funny to have Kaitlyn in daycare, because when she comes home it is very evident what she learns during the day or how they interact with her. As some of you may know Katy has always been a light sleeper and because of that we have black out curtains in her bedroom and we turn on a sound machine while she sleeps (the machine creates white noise). Anyway, at daycare Kaitlyn is known as the troublemaker during nap time, because she doesn't like to sleep under their conditions. All of the 18 month - 2 year old kids have mats and a blanket and sleep in the same room together with the overhead light off; however it is not dark by any means. Plus people will talk in the hallways so it is not very quite either. Nap time at daycare is usually two hours long and the teachers are lucky if they get Katy to sleep for 45 minutes. Also, if you're not sleeping you are required to stay on your mat and be quiet while the other kids sleep. Anyway, over the last couple of months Katy has really enjoyed pretending to put Mommy and Daddy down for nap time and it really is kind of funny because you get a good idea of what they are doing at school. She'll take my hand and pull me to the ground and force me to lay on my stomach. She then puts the blanket on top of me and starts patting my back (rather forcefully). If I start to talk she says "quiet mamma, quiet mamma" or "SSSHHHH" as she puts one finger to my mouth. Then, if I lift my head up at all she pushes it back down to the ground. This probably isn't exactly how they treat her at daycare, but I think it's pretty funny. Anyway, here is a video that Jared took on our camera the other week of Katy enacting this. I didn't know he was taping us, so please don't mind the fact that Katy's pants are falling down!