A few months ago, Julia became quite independent going to the bathroom by herself. I was quite relieved the day I was able to say "Go to the potty" and she would head up the stairs and into the bathroom without requiring any assistance and much supervision at all. She is able to do everything; even flip the light switch when necessary. When it got hot, Carl would often manually shut the light fixture above our sink off at the base to save energy but leave the bathroom fan on for cross ventilation at night. This would then only allow the light switch to control the fan. Of course, this created a huge disturbance in my two minutes of peace that I gained whenever Julia couldn't turn on the light. After the fifth or sixth time of me climbing up the stairs to turn on the light for Julia, I grumbled, "Daddy's so stupid! He turned off the light again!" Needless to say, Julia loved that and went straight to Daddy when she was done and said "Daddy, you're so stupid! You turned off the light!"
I tried desperately to shift the blame, sheepishly looked at Carl and said "Oh my, where ever did she learn that word?" But of course, I wasn't bullshitting anyone. To make up for it, I had the talk with Julia about how saying stupid is a very bad thing and how mommy was wrong for saying such an awful, awful word. Sigh.
Unfortunately, the word "stupid" is, apparently, a huge part of my vocabulary and Julia, the bad word police, lets me know EVERY SINGLE TIME I SAY IT. She will even go into a 20 second tirade (as eloquently as a 2 year old can) about how terrible it is.
"Mommy, you said stupid! How can you say that? That's not good! That's a bad word! We don't say that! How you say that? We can't say stupid! Don't say that again, ok? Mommy, ok? Stupid is a bad word!"
And as the months have gone on, we have also had to add; "hate", "freaking" (but according to Carl, "freaking out" is ok), "crap", and "dammit".
The worst part is, is that not only am I annoyed at being reprimanded by my 2 year old and annoyed at myself for obviously having an extremely defunct filter, but I also realized that SHE'S IMITATING ME!! CRAP! I'M AN ANNOYING NAG!
And now I've taught Julia to be one too....sigh....
