Today at breakfast, as I washed some dishes and half-heartedly watched over the kids eating, Ethan suddenly began to derisively mock his sister with the chant, "Haha, you said the 'nerd word'!"
This got my attention and, as he said it again, laughing the whole time, I asked him what the "nerd word" was.
"'What' is the 'nerd word'," he replied.
"What?" I asked, not liking where this was going and fully aware that I was setting myself up, "Why is that a 'nerd word'? What does that even mean?"
"I don't know," he responded, "it's what the kids on the bus say to me."
"Just you?" I feared the answer.
"Yes."
