This morning T-Bone woke up shortly after Cargo and I brought her into our bedroom while I gave Cargo her bottle. Afterward we (passive aggressively) piled into bed with Daddy (where he was pretending to sleep) so we could read books together.
T-Bone points to a large birth mark on my leg and says "Mommy you have a piece of shit on your leg." Thinking I had misheard her I ask her to repeat herself. She then says as clear as day:
"Mommy there is a piece of shit on your leg."
I'm flabbergasted because we talk about "shit" constantly, but we never use that word to apply to the brown matter that she currently thinks is clinging to my leg.
Trust me, we talk up poop in our house. In the hopes of encouraging potty usage we talk about poop, poopy diapers, poop nuggets, rogue poop nuggets (the tiny hard balls that sometimes escape in a diaper change, only to be confused for a raisin ten days later). But I am fairly certain we have never used the word "shit" to refer to the brown stuff that shows up in the diaper or the potty. Never.
I will admit, my husband and I don't censor ourselves too much yet. So we do use the word "shit," but never to apply to the brown stuff. So where did she get this? I asked her once again to repeat what she said. And as if I were a rather dull looking foreign tourist she just slowed it waaaaay down for me:
"Mommy, there... is... a... piece......of......shit......on....your....leg."
At that point any hope that we had misheard her was lost. And we had to explain that "shit" is not a good word to use. But we still have no idea where she learned that shit and poop nuggets are the same thing. We may never know.
