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Things Mostly Forgotten

With a sudden surge of lucidity akin to the proverbial “wake up call,” we realized that our little man was, in flagrant disregard of every parental effort and machination, growing up. Many of the cute, baby-talk phrases and words are disappearing from his vocabulary. His trouble with the “r” sound is substantially less noticeable, and many of his more humorous language slips are quickly being forgotten. With a desperation born of parents’ natural aversion to the passage of time, we decided to document a few of these verbal miscues so that we may grow old, and yet, never allow Gilbert to completely shed the vestiges of toddlerhood. Below is the beginning of a list that shall inevitably grow as we recall these last three years.

Britney = “Burtney”
Breely = “Byooly”
Gilbert = “Deeboot”
naked = “maked”
orange = “ohjin”
yellow = “lellow”
umbrella = “rellella”
daddy = “dadoo”
dizzy = “bizzy”
breakfast = “becky”

"Things Mostly Forgotten" was published on May 28th, 2007 and is listed in family.

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Things Mostly Forgotten ~ 8 Comments

  1. Nicole wrote,

    I love it. We will be stealing your idea when our little man is older.

  2. Shanon wrote,

    I almost forgot that he called his teacher Miss. Rebecca “Specka.” :)

  3. Joe Lencioni wrote,

    Hilarious. Deeboot is bumhee

  4. Grandma K wrote,

    What about snowberry for snowmobile! I remeber how he loved to go for rides on the snowberry this winter.

  5. Joe Lencioni wrote,

    Helping me!

  6. Shanon wrote,

    How could I forget about pupcakes? :)

  7. jerry wrote,

    Oh, and “packpack” instead of “backpack.” What about “hay” for “hair” and “haycut,” “hice cream,” and strangely enough, “hairplane.”

  8. Shanon wrote,

    elephant = ef-i-nant
    butterfly = paw-ply

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