#%*$&!

I'm sure this is something most parents encounter when their kids are just learning to speak, but it seems like Molly has really been working blue lately with an excessive number of accidental swears. Some of it's fairly subtle -- when she says "sit," she adds a bit of an "h" sound after the "s" -- but others are just front and center, like her fascination with clocks combined with her tendency to leave out one of the letters that is not "c," "o" or "k." Yyyyeeeaaahhh... try not getting embarrassed over that one when you're out in public and the child sees a clock on the wall. Then just the other day, we were driving to my parents' house when out of the backseat comes this tiny, exuberant little "fuka!", repeated at length. We still can't even guess what Molly's trying to say there (I know what you're thinking, but we're pretty careful about not swearing in front of her), but if you'd been driving alongside us at that moment, you would have seen two adults shaking uncontrollably while trying to bite back laughter, because you can't reinforce that exclamation. At the same time, though... fuka!