Things Mostly Forgotten
May 28, 2007
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”
I love it. We will be stealing your idea when our little man is older.
Comment by Nicole — May 30, 2007 @ 1:30 pm
I almost forgot that he called his teacher Miss. Rebecca “Specka.”
Comment by Shanon — May 30, 2007 @ 7:18 pm
Hilarious. Deeboot is bumhee
Comment by Joe Lencioni — May 30, 2007 @ 9:43 pm
What about snowberry for snowmobile! I remeber how he loved to go for rides on the snowberry this winter.
Comment by Grandma K — May 31, 2007 @ 8:57 am
Helping me!
Comment by Joe Lencioni — June 13, 2007 @ 7:14 am
How could I forget about pupcakes?
Comment by Shanon — June 24, 2007 @ 7:03 am
Oh, and “packpack” instead of “backpack.” What about “hay” for “hair” and “haycut,” “hice cream,” and strangely enough, “hairplane.”
Comment by jerry — July 26, 2007 @ 2:45 pm
elephant = ef-i-nant
butterfly = paw-ply
Comment by Shanon — August 21, 2007 @ 10:59 am
PBS.orc instead of PBS.org.
Comment by jerry — April 1, 2009 @ 1:48 pm