"Oh My Gosh"

So last Thursday when we were coming home from San Antonio, Caleb missed the exit we needed. Me and Caleb were talking about it and all of a sudden Parker said, "Oh my gosh! What is going on in here?" Caleb and I just looked at each other and then I turned my head and laughed. We didn't address the issue of him saying "oh my gosh" because I'm pretty sure we were both caught off guard.

Well later that night we were driving into College Station and passed the Easterwood Airport. There was an airplane about to land and Parker said, "oh my gosh that is huge!"

At that point we talked about how "oh my gosh" really isn't necessary and a simple "Wow! That's huge!" would suffice.

Well we hadn't heard anymore "Oh my gosh"'s....

Until this morning.

I was explaining to Parker that this week is his last week at his school. (They won't allow part-time in the fall and we will be gone a bit in July, so there was no need to keep paying for him to go when he wouldn't be going.)

I told him that Ms. Penny (the assistant director who helped open his current school) used to work a long time ago at his new school, Sonshine School, and that she loved it.

He stopped me in my explanation and said, "Where's Ms. Penny now?"

I reminded him that she moved to Florida.

His words exactly.... (I wish you could have heard the fluctuation in his voice)....

"Oh. My. Gosh."

We had another talk about we could choose other words to better express ourselves.

Needless to say, I'm going to stop "oh my goshing" around here.

*Kids are a great accountability partner. Yes, "oh my gosh" isn't so bad, but he's 2 1/2. It's really not necessary at this age. He could have said a lot worse.