August 8, 2004—
- Everett's learning to say a lot more words correctly. The most fun part is how his sentences sometimes take some re-ordering to make sense out of them. Here are some mixed-up words:
- "Daddy doing?"
- "Mommy daddy everett hug!" when he's hugging both of us
- "You fix it the shoe, mama!"
- "I safe, mama!"
- "Mommy, Dora Boots!" when he wants to watch Dora the Explorer
- "Mama hit it the ball?"
- "Happened, mama?" when I'm upset
- "Park go wi Daddy yeah!" when he is asked, "do you want to go with the park with daddy"
- "All gone da milk, mama!" He also has some great catch phrases, things we hear several hundred times a day:
- "Ride a bike, mama!"
- "uh-oh, mama! uh-oh, daddy! uh-oh, matt!"
- "Checkers, mama? Pay checkers, mama?" or "Cars (cards) mama? pay cars, mama?"
July 29, 2004—
- Everett's big thing now: repeating exactly what mommy and daddy are saying, like:
- "Oh, GOD!"
- We go "down downsairs" because I've been trying to get him not to say "downsairs" when we're going upstairs
- He tries to repeat whole phrases and butchers them, mixes the words up, "is mommy ga-ga-going ah store ah jhoes?" instead of "mommy is going to Trader Joe's, mommy is going to the store."
- It's not "fill up" but "fillpp milk"
- In the morning (or, well, anytime anyone is in bed) it's "gehup time" instead of "time to get up"
- Octopus is "ockpusss"
April 25, 2004—
- Big news! Everett learned to say his name, "Eff-wet" Other things he is saying:
- Elephant - "el-fat"
- Banana is now its own fruit - "amana"
- Pretzels - "pet-sell"
- We go "up-sairs" and "down-sairs" a lot
- His "ROOOAAR" (bears and lions) and "aah-aah-aah" (sheep) and "hop-hop-hop" (rabbits) are REALLy cute
- Foot - his favorite apendage and also favorite book - is "foo-a"
- When walking gets too rough, he asks for a "ant" (hand)
- We learned "buck" (bug) and "fwy" (butterfly) this weekend
April 12, 2004—
- Just wanted to mention a couple:
- Throw it - "fo-ut" (our sports vocabulary is huge!)
- All fruits are "app-le", but especially oranges, apples and pineapples
- Pirate's Booty (cheese puffs) is "boa-ty"
- Everett now asks me to "geh-up" in the morning if I'm sleepy and he's not
April 11, 2004—
- Yesterday we had lots of sentences. We took a hike and heard:
- I'm fine - "aa-ii fii" (very emphatic "fii")
- We run fast - "aa-ii wunning, fas. i fas. FAS!" (that last "fast" means that mom and/or dad needs to be running "fast", too)
- Jump - something like, "jup"
- Quack (ducks) - "kack kack", extraordinarily realistic
- I got it - "aa-ii got et", for catching balls, chasing balls, or picking up sticks
- Stop - "TOP!", means we need to wait for him to catch up
- the best one was after daddy jumped out from behind the tree. Mom said "Daddy's silly" and we heard, over and over again for the next five minutes, "daddy's siwwy, daddy's siwwy, siwwy, daddy's siwwy" it was so adorable.
April 7, 2004—
- He learned (just a few days ago) how to say uncle michael: he started out with "mucka mucka mucka muckel!" and now says something like "unka mikie!" but the "mucka mucka" was so cute I almost wish he wasn't learning it right.
- Today he learned how to say "flamingo" (faminga) and "owl" (ohhhl) and "racket" (waket) and maybe "blue" (boo)
- "yellow" is "we-lel-low" (and he may think that red is yellow, but I think he's starting to get it right)
- his "b" works are great, like "book" and "boot" and "bawl" and today "boat" (booat)
- toast with peanut butter is a favorite - but it's "dosh be-buttah"
- milk is sometimes "milka" or "a-milk"
- flower, a favorite, is "fowwer"
- he LOVES water, or "wateh" or "watehs" and likes to "see watehs" and ask "whehs de watehs?"
- lots of things get pluralized, like "meow meows" and "watehs" and "baulls" and "buttehs" (peanut butter)
March 23, 2004—
- Everett can say just about any animal sound you can cook up. His favorites right now are meow, caw, woof, and a cute elephant roar.
- He has been saying "eyes" for months now and "no" for as long as I can remember. He just can't figure out "nose" though.
- He's singing the alphabet amazingly well for his age...it usually ends about "e" and then takes off into a colorful assortment of o's, t's, b's, twos and sixes.
- He struggles so, so much to say "bottle" and "wiggles" - his mouth just gets all tangled up combining those hard consonants with the "le" on the end. I repeat the word once I figure it out, slowly, "BOT-LL". He trips over it again, this time with his eager half-sighing giggle of affirmation (no "yes", just an "uh-hee-haw!").
