Brain Fertilizer

Georgia does the same thing (2 in a few weeks). She knows every letter of the alphabet and can pronouce every sound, but she garbles them up.

Milk is Dilk (but she can say "Moo")
Grapes are Bapes
Soap is Boap while Soup is Poop (S's are very difficult for kids to start a word with for some unknown reason).

Lots of fun!

We took my 23 month old Godson to the ice cream parlour Saturday night. He got a "clown sundae", which means sundae with an ice cream cone "hat". My Godson seemed to confuse the cone-hat for a toy, and it eventually had to be set aside because it was making the mess ten times worse. After getting ice cream and strawberry syrup every place imagineable, we swing through the "candy store" portion (Incidentally, where you pay your bill)and Michael picked up a big roll of Smarties. As we all went to the car, I dropped the roll of Smarties and they subsequently rolled under a car. Michael retrieved them, looked at me, and said, "Bad Jolene!" and shook his head. Of course, he knew what was to come next. My Godson said, "Bad Jolene, Bad!"

We got in the car and as we drove, Godson said, "Joleeeene?"

"Yes?" I reply.

"Are you baaaaad?" he says. and all the way home it was "Are you baaaad?"

His parents picked him up as he came through the door. "Did you have fun?" says the mom. "Jolene took my ice cream cone off my ice cream. Jolene is BAAAAD."

"Bad Jo!" His parents say, shaking their heads and laughing in unison.

Good Lord.

*sigh*