highly inappropriate

i've created a monster.  a WWF monster, that is.  as in, Words With Friends. 

liam is obsessed.  after i upgraded my iphone, i decided to let him have full control of the WWF app on my ipad.  i even let him create his own account, rather than playing under mine.  after a few failed name attempts -- seems there's already a liam mann somewhere -- "Liam the Hammer" was born.  (liam's soccer team is the hammers.)  he currently plays against his aunt leslie and against chris, both of whom are a little easy on him, thank goodness.  (have i mentioned to you his competitiveness?)

but had i known the fixation he was going to have, i'm not sure i would've been so eager to get him started.  he'll race inside from playing basketball in the driveway, flushed and breathless, but instead of asking for water, he asks if it's his turn with words with friends.  or he'll just so happen to walk past the ipad a few times in a matter of minutes, staring at the thing, trying to will it to chime with a new WWF notification.  he even bombarded his poor aunt with a string of urgent messages when she took a little while to play, complete with a plea along the lines of "please play a word!  pretty pretty please with a cherry on top!"

so since both of his opponents actually work for a living and cannot spend the entire afternoon trading words back and forth with him, he started looking elsewhere for a game.  he saw the feature where he could begin a game against a random opponent and at least had the mind to ask me if that was okay.

"oh, no, sweetheart.  that's not a good idea," i replied.

"why not?"

"well, you just don't know what kind of person you'll wind up playing," i explained.  "it could be an adult somewhere who might play some inappropriate words."

susanna's ears perked up.  "like daddy!"

i turned to her. "excuse me?"

she nodded emphatically.  "daddy played an inappropriate word just a few turns ago," she stated, all of a sudden assuming the role of the all-knowing WWF judge.  "just look!"  she turned on the screen and pointed. and there it was. 

heinie!  my word! 

(pun intended, of course)