Once toddlers get the hang of talking, they certainly like to chat up a storm and these two little guys are no different. But because one of them is deaf and the other is a little hard of hearing, they communicate with each other -- and their parents -- through sign language (ASL).

Their parents (dad is deaf too) say the boys had no language skills when they adopted the boys just six months ago -- and now look at them go.

You can't shut these two up!

You can never predict the complex emotions that bubble up when you become a parent -- emotions so mixed-up and complicated you didn't even know they existed until you had that kid.

Take for example the 2-year-old of Valdet Gjeloshi, wanted for violating probation on a battery charge. When the police came to his house looking for Valdet, his loyal girlfriend lied and told them he wasn't at home. But then the couple's toddler piped up and informed the police that of course Daddy was home -- he was just hiding in the attic! Oh, what must have gone through Mom's head right at that moment.

OMG, THEY'RE TAKING SOME OF OUR WORDS AWAY! Lake Superior State University released its 37th annual list of words that should be banned. Every year, the northern Michigan school asks people to nominate the words that got so overused and tired this year that we should ditch them into the dustbin of history. Now don't panic, these people don't actually have the power to ban words. These are just suggestions.

Which is just as well since I have a bone to pick with some of these haters. I kind of like some of the words on the list! Okay, half of them deserve to be on there: Amazing, shared sacrifice (especially when it's spoken by a politician!), ginormous, pet parent, and win the future. Those I could live without. But the rest of the words have brought us all together. We've kind of bonded over them. Is that really such a bad thing? Here are the words I would keep. 

This week on America's Supernanny, childcare guru Deborah Tillman came across the most foul-mouthed little kid she's ever seen. Poor little Armani (NOT pictured here), just 4 years old and already cussin' like a pirate. "Hey listen, you #$%@-head! &*$# face!" Poor mom! Where did he pick up such language? From his daddy, Bill. 

Bill fessed up: "The only person on earth he would've gotten that from is his dad. I knew that was my mistake ... that's what got me, he was sounding like me. But I know I'm gonna stop." Good for you, Bill, taking responsibility for poor modeling. But the time to really stop swearing is way before your kid turns 4!

We've seen some pretty cute toddler videos in our day, but this one of 2-year-old Alim Kamara may just take the cake. The kid can spit mad rhymes. Granted he can't spit any words, but his poetic stream of gibberish has cadence, melody, and dare I say, flow. Alim may not have any sort of vocabulary yet, but he can rap with the best of them. Here. Let me do an impression. Be! Ba be be be be ba da dee dah! Ga wah slah do bee do dah bee wah! It's so good that if I heard this in a club, I'd just think I was drunk.

Sometimes when I used to hang out at the sand box with my toddler, something strange would happen. A little sprog would grab another sprog's shovel. There would be hitting and crying. Both parents (or babysitters, as the case may be) would jump up in to restore peace in our time. But no one would say, "I'm sorry."

This is something new to me. Apparently there's a philosophy out there that you shouldn't force kids to say "I'm sorry" if they don't really mean it. And let's face it, when you do get a toddler to say "I'm sorry," they rarely mean it. They might as well be saying, "At the sound of the tone, the time will be 4:57." But here's the thing -- I think a toddler should be taught to say "I'm sorry" anyway, even if it's an insincere apology.

Last week, Evan underwent a speech evaluation. He was quiet as a mouse the entire time, simply giving one-word, bare minimum answers. The therapists took notes as he was clearly flunking the test with a big fat F.

Suddenly, he turned to me and loudly announced, "Mommy, my butt itches so bad and I really, really want to scratch it!!" The good news: His articulation was perfect. The bad? The therapists actually wrote the phrase on his test for the entire team to analyze.

Later that day, I asked my Facebook friends for the most embarrassing things their kids had ever said. Bless their souls, they may have me beat ...

Am I the only one who feels, every time some new study shows that learning a second language is good for kids, that I have already woefully and irreversibly failed my children? (And it happened before they even hit their toddler years!)

One recent study even revealed that babies who live in a household in which only one language is spoken slip behind those who are routinely exposed to two or more languages their first year of life: They are less "open" to and have more difficulty understanding other languages. Maybe, like, forever.