Our Laughter Lives....

This post is part of "Laughter Lives! Tuesday" on the Riggs Family Blog. Check our their blog to read everyone else's "Laughter Lives!" posts.

Some of you may or may not know but I (Scott) am a potty mouth when it comes to driving. I don't intentionally use bad words but more times than not they tend to slip out. I will say that I am trying to refrain from such words as Tatum is now 2 and a half going on 15 and very very smart. She picks up on the smallest things and notices EVERYTHING. Last night we were going to the grocery store and I was typically bothered by a few cars just putting around. As we approached a stop-light the car in front of me started to turn the corner when a sport motorcycle appeared and the car hesitated. I blurted out "Chicken S!@#) and from the back seat I hear (Chicken S!@#?) as if to ask who we were talking about. Tiff and I both tried to turn our head as to not let Tatum see us laughing and invoke a repeat of this word. Tiff quickly reprimanded Tatum telling her how that word was naughty and to not say that again. She also told Tatum to tell me how bad it was. Now fast forward to tonight. I had softball practice to prepare for a game Thursday night and was dog tired and hot afterwards. We decided to come home and eat a quick bite and then go walk around Holmes Lake on their hike and bike trail. Well there was no need for working out tonight as we decided to take our 2 dogs Briggz and Stratton for a walk as well and that was a workout in itself. Well after our walk we drove up to get some Sno-Cones. I ordered a Pina Colada and Tiff a Pink Bubblegum. We sat down for a few moments to enjoy our post walk desert with the girls. I offered a bite to Keely and without hesitation she gobbled it up. When I offered it to Tatum she turned her head and said no. I replied with calling her a chicken for not trying mine but eating all of Tiff's. To which Tatum replied "that's a bad word daddy." You would have thought it was his mother telling him that it was a bad word, she was so serious! I said "no, chicken is not a bad word, just how daddy used it last night" then she asked "Chicken Nugget" a bad word? I just about fell out of the booth laughing. We told her that chicken nuggets are what we eat and not a bad word. It's laughter like this we will never forget and will surly miss someday!