Howdy pardners! I'm fixin' to go to bed! That means it's time to find a stall tactic. Lately, I've been wearing my cowboy boots and running up and down the hallway. Yippy-ki-yay!
Of all the embarrassing photos that I'll be pulling out to show his girlfriends in 20 years, these two may be very near the top of the stack:
His vocabulary continues to expand every day. There are too many words to try to make a list. He pronounces many correctly, but some are at least slightly askew. Here are some of the more notable mispronunciations:
"googles" --> noodles
"ogez" --> oranges
"stawbabies" --> strawberries
"m nem" --> M&Ms
"heptopter" --> helicopter
"umbugga" --> umbrella
"bdue" --> blue
"ba bette" --> belly button
"waf waf" --> washcloth
"pitano" --> piano
"wuwiwa" --> gorilla
"wuband" --> rubber band
"rhinoceros" --> "ahris"
[the Blogger spellchecker just went ape shit]
And of course "Gimma and Kempa" are Grandma and Grandpa. Almost any 3-syllable word is comically scrambled.
He has some amusing sayings as well. Occasionally he'll say "thank you" and "you're welcome" at the same time, except it comes out "Tank you, Rocco". For a while we thought that he thought my name was Rocco.
"Ladies" are any group of persons (including ladies, men, children) that are seen at a distance.
When he first sees something, it's "right there." For example, "Daddy's truck right there!" or "Ladies umbugga right there!"
When we are outside, he jubilantly announces "Run!" just prior to "running" (i.e. slowly and clumsily toddling in a serpentine fashion across the yard, limbs akimbo, followed by stumbling and falling down).
Several times a day he wants to "Watch a movie," and he particularly want to "watch a movie: shapes," "watch a movie: music," and "watch a movie: Nemo."
He's also making progress with his numbers. He can identify 1-9 easily, and he's been working on 11-19. He identifies 14-19 pretty well, but he insists that "12" is two-teen and "13" is three teen. And really, when you think about it it's hard to argue with the logic. That would make a lot more sense, wouldn't it?
SPUD will be riding Cody when he comes to visit...he's got his boots...Gimma will get him a hat to match. Daddy can get him some pants...so adorable....of course he knows his numbers...he's almost 2.
ReplyDeleteSpud knows that his Grandpa Chadwick "hails" from New Mexico, where we hung horse thieves, rustlers and people who don't believe in evolution. Hard to believe that he will soon be...TWO YEARS OLD???!! I am gonna wake up some morning and have to get ready to attend his HS Graduation!
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