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