What the....?

Okay, I've been holding out on this little gem. I am slightly embarrassed by it, but in an effort to maintain a no bs, lay-it-all-out there kind of blog with an element of fun, I am going to share. Actually I lied, I am not that embarrassed by it. I saved it up especially for this.

So, little j. has a tendency to push limits. He's my heart for sure. He drives me insane for sure...but only because he is so much like me, I must admit. He just says and does the things that I never dared say except to those absolutely the closest to me. A friend of mine tells me that her oldest son loves him because j. says and does the things that her son wants to but is too afraid to do. That's just great...isn't that what we strive our kids to be.... the one that does and says the things that everyone else is too afraid to? I am envisioning my future heart-attack as I write this....

He recently picked up the saying "what the...?" from, oh, I don't know, his friend down the street, his classmates, his mom maybe? (to be fair, I don't actually use that term. I use the more appropriate, "what the crap?") Anyway, we have been trying to instill in him that this is not appropriate for a 6 year old. Definitely not appropriate... We even got a note home from school:

"j has been saying the phrase "what the..." a lot in the classroom. I asked him to stop and then pulled him aside to tell him that is not appropriate for him to say. Please also talk to him about this."

First of all, don't you just love it when teachers assume you have never heard this before. Or that you haven't already "talked" to them about this like 50 times already. Because in his case, that is what it takes.

So, we had the same talk, AGAIN and left it with that.

Last week, some neighborhood boys came to see if j. wanted to play football. I am still a little cautious of unsupervised play especially with older kids, but I would be able to hear them just outside our back deck so I let him go. Most of these kids I knew, there was only one boy that I didn't know, turns out he's 10 and in 5th grade. uh - oh.

On our way to karate one night j. said a "what the heck".... so, it occurred to me to ask if he's been reigning it in....if he has still been saying "what the" at school.

"No," he replies, "now I just say holy shit."

WHHAATTT????

After catching my breath, and checking my ears...and asking where he had heard this one, (I bet you know... you are all so smart.)... he giggled and said, "yeah, but you know what is really funny?!?! For awhile, I thought he was saying holy ship."

That-a-boy.