Pardon my French 
This morning I was busying my self in the kitchen, mostly ignoring the screams of my children as they both played and fought under my feet. But then suddenly I heard Mylie say something that made me tune in.
She was lying under the dining room table saying, “Butt Wipe! Butt wipe! Butt wipe!”
I was startled, but tried not to give it too much attention, so I casually asked, “What are you saying?”
She smiled and repeated it, but I realized it sounded a little more like “Butt Why.”
Still perplexed, I realized I should find out where she was learning such atrocious language, so I could know whose mother to tattle to. So, I calmly asked, “Where did you learn that?”
At that point, she motioned up to the bottom of of the chair under which she was lying, and said, “Right there!”
When I poked my head under, I saw the bright orange factory sticker that said, “Inspected By:” with someone’s scrawled initials. She pointed again and said, “See!? Buh-Y!”
She was sounding out the word, “by,” and although we’ve made great progress lately with our reading skills, we still get stuck a little on those tricky letters… Like the ones that are sometimes vowels and sometimes consenants.
I was so glad that our morning lesson got to be on the sound the letter Y makes and what initials are, instead of on the appropriate and innapropriate use of languange. The good news is I don’t have to go have any smack downs with any little butt-wipes brats for teaching my kid naughty words!
Love this story. For months, Max has shocked others with his version of the word “fork”. He cannot say the “r” part and so it sounds disastrously like he has a very crude vocabulary.
That’s a great story. She’s a genius.
Hilarious! Your daughter is so dang smart! I can’t believe she is already reading…although, it’s a little red-neckish…it’s still pretty dang good!! Hooray for Butt Wipes!!