Fork!

Clara's getting pretty good when it comes to works for her utensils. She particularly likes talking about forks.

Except that's not how she pronounces it. Think of another 4-letter word that starts with F.

A REALLY inappropriate word that begins with F.

Yep, Clara's new favorite word.

She'll get all excited about her utensils, and chatter away so the entire neighborhood can hear, "fork, fork . . . fork . . . FORK!" Thank goodness the neighbors don't know English.

But yesterday she decided that she can be all-opportunity inappropriate.

We were eating spaghetti and she had accidentally dropped some on her boots. She says boots perfectly well. I don't know if she was trying out her Spanish or saying "shoe" instead, but she was really upset about it and, using this new word, I couldn't figure out what she wanted.

Because, instead of "bota", she was crying about "puta". (Not quite as offensive as the f-bomb in English, but almost!) So, imagine if you will, in the most pathetic two-year-old voice, getting increasingly desperate for me to wipe the spaghetti off of her boots.

"Puta . . . puta . . . puta, puta--PUUUUUU-TAAAAA!"

Yep, she'll find a way to offend everyone at Danyel and Cesar's wedding next weekend.

Thank goodness she's so stinkin' cute.