Day 18: Vocabulary 101

Asia had her first day of school, and it turns out I should have given her the pretty pink cell phone. That way I would have gotten more information than, "It was good." Never again will I answer Colette with "My day was fine." I'll give her all the details and then some--what I did, who I met with, what I was wearing, what they were wearing, and I'll even tell her what I was thinking at what they were wearing--if it matched, it it wasn't their color, if they should never wear it again, all of it. The point is, when you want to know how the day went, you don't want to hear, "It was good." You actually want to know how it went. From what we can see, school is going well, and Asia enjoys it.

While Asia's learning all sorts of things, Rex is too. The other day, we were at the park, and Rex heard some new English words. I'm pretty sure these words aren't on the reading list for the school district, and I'm pretty sure the teacher wasn't a certified teacher. He was about eight. He was playing on the jungle gym with his friends, and Rex was close by. Within the span of a couple minutes, we heard, "booty," "crap," "poop," and "butt." Now, either he's the son of a proctologist who doesn't use very technical terms at home, or he just happens to have a potty mouth.

Rex hasn't said any of these words yet. We tried not to make a big deal out of it, and when they fired in such rapid succession, we pointed Rex in a different direction, and he played elsewhere. I know we won't be able to shield him for his whole life, but now, early on, we can. We'd prefer if, of the few English words he can say, they don't all have to do with the same thing. Unless he becomes friends with the son of a proctologist.