Working on Vocab

Every now and again, the boy let’s fly with a word that’s bigger than he is. These occurrences are always obvious since it’s a regular “I do not think that word means what you think it means” moment. Complete with accent.

Anyway, with the kids home from school, they’ve been making the most of an otherwise beautiful day by running around and playing and burning off all their energy. Mostly, in a positive Dad-doesn’t-need-to-separate-them way.

At one point, they were wrestling-play-fighting, or whatever you’d call it. The boy was on the ground on his back and the lass was running around kicking at him as he kind of pivoted around keeping his legs between them. I’m sure the next part won’t surprise anyone imagining this scenario in their minds: he took a shot to the berries.

Not just a glancing blow either, more like a step-in-half-soccer-kick to the Family Jewels (yes- that’s a proper noun ’round these here, er, parts…)

After writhing on the ground for several seconds, the boy then revealed that was the third time she’d done that. Come to think of it, his voice was a bit high-pitched…

Anyway, he follows that up with “You are VIOLATED from doing that anymore!”

My first thought was, “No, you were ‘violated’.” Then I said, “She’s ‘violated’ from it, huh? I don’t think that…”

“OH, WHATEVER THE STUPID WORD IS!!” he yelled at me, cutting me off.

I gave him a mulligan on the yelling part. The word was clearly “pain.”