Despite my last post full of uncertainty and angst....

....one of my kids just said something that has me laughing too much to keep to myself.

So a dirty little secret of mine is this:  I can't remember anybody's actual first word.  There are certain words that each of my kids, as babies, uttered that have stuck in my mind (like Katie saying, "What's that?" but pronouncing it "Whaaaatsssssuuuuuupp?" right when it was a catchphrase due to those commercials.)  So when my kids ask me what their first word was, I just make something up.

Well, this was the topic of conversation yesterday during breakfast.  I told Claire that her first word was "Dup" (meaning "cup" - something she demanded constantly.)  I told Beth that her first word was "jump!" which I actually think might be true.  When Lucy asked me what her first word was, though, I paused for a moment to think something up and instead of waiting she declared that she could remember herself.

"Really?" I said.
"Oh, yes," she said.
"So what was it?" I asked.
She looked at me with her blunt, frank little face and confidently announced what her first word was.
"Beer!" said Lucy.