That OLD Lady...

We live in Canada...you need a good winter hat when you live in Canada, so when I found this one, I thought it was very cute AND practical for the cold winter that was coming.

Little did I know it would lead to my first ever "Mommy can't believe you said that and I want to die" moment!

We headed to the zoo one chilly morning a couple of weeks ago. Aidan was wearing his cute hat. It gets a lot of comments because of it's bear shape, so I never really paid much attention when the lady, who was ahead of us in line at the zoo, started talking to Aidan and telling him how cute his hat was.

I didn't pay much attention UNTIL...Aidan turned around and said in his loudest 3 year old voice... "MOM!! That OLD lady said my hat was nice!"

I froze! What could I say?? I certainly knew that everyone within ear shot had just heard that and not knowing how this ummmmm "older adult" would react to such a comment, I had to act quickly! I glared at my innocent little boy, who was so excited that someone had noticed his hat and told him to "SSSSSSSSHHHHHHHH!!" I had promised myself never to do this to him because we had waited so long to hear him speak, but what can you do when he spews the truth so freely?? When out of earshot of the poor woman who had had her self esteem shattered by this 3 foot tower of truth, I explained to him that it is not nice to call people old...just like he didn't like being called a baby. I think he understood, but GOOD LORD I am not looking forward to the next time his new found vocabulary makes me want to crawl in a hole and die!