Open Mouth, Insert Foot

So this morning I was introducing our words for the week and was teaching the reading rule that states "change the Y to I and add ES." I had the words listed on my board, and I was asking them questions to get them to understand the rule. What I said is what follows:

"Okay, so how do we make the word puppy plural?"

The students gave me the right answer.

"Okay, so how do we make the word cherry plural?"

The students gave the right answer.

I thought they had it, so I followed with:

"Okay, so how do we make babies?"

Yeah, needless to say, I got some looks and immediately caught my bad phrasing of words and said, "I mean, how do we spell the word babies?"

Life.
Is.
Good.

Even when you have some 6th graders in the room who catch your mistake! :-)