What in the ...

So last night, after dinner, Jeff, Mylie and I are just hanging out watching a Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris movie. Mylie is sitting on my lap and it is just a nice quiet night. All of a sudden Mylie says, "What in the hell?" Jeff looks at her and says "what did you say?" I bury my head in the blanket to try not to laugh as she repeats it to him. After we get our bearings, we explain to her that hell is not a nice word and she shouldn't say it. I ask her where she heard that word and she said ever so sweetly "Melanie." Now the hilarious thing is that if you know Melanie, you know that she did not teach Mylie that. Then I realize that this is a perfect "A Christmas Story" moment. Totally reminicient of Ralpie when he drops the F-bomb and his mom asks him where he learned that word ... I wonder if Mylie's three-year old brain had the same thought process as Ralphie's. "I had heard my mother say that same word every day of my young life, but I couldn't say that so I blurted out the first name I thought of ...." Note to self, I either need to employ the "earmuffs" tactic from "Old School," or think before I speak.