As Mooter expands her vocabulary, our conversations are as follows:

Mooter: [shouting] MOM! REMEMBER THAT EPISODE OF iCARLY…

Me: I’m right here, kid. Turn it down a few notches.

Mooter: [normal decibels] Oh, yeah. Mom. Remember that episode of iCarly, when that girl, I don’t remember her name because I forgot it, she was singing and she made the glass broked?

Me: Break.

Mooter: Huh?

Me: She made the glass break.

Mooter: That’s what I said. I said… wait a minute. It’s not “broked”?

Me: No.

Mooter: Then what IS it? Are you tricking me again?

Me: Break means it happened right now. Broke means it happened a while ago.

Mooter: [ponders] Well, she BREAKED the glass.

Me: She BROKE the glass.

Mooter: HHUUUUUHHHHH!!! MOMMY! She BREAKED… BROKED…

Me: Broke.

Mooter: Oh, just forget it!

I love these special moments like this.