Daddy is a Crazy Fox
I love listening to my toddler, J, talk. He loves to talk, talk, talk. We have read to him since he was an infant and his vocabulary is extensive. However, on occasion, he causes me to chuckle out loud and then correct his speech. These are a few examples:
1. On the way to Bible Study yesterday, I had in my car a bowl of grapes in addition to a few other items since it was my turn to be responsible for bringing refreshments. From the back seat, J said “Mommy, I starvin’ Want some gwapes.” So, I lovingly handed him a bunch of grapes (6 or 8 grapes). A little while later he said “Mommy, take the branch.” I reached back for the “branch” and with a smile told him that it was called a stem.
2. As J is growing, he is learning how letters and words sound.
“tr” often comes out as “f.”
“b” and “p” sound a lot alike.
J loves cars and trucks. Unfortunately, when he says “truck” the tr comes out as an “f” sound… Many people have given us looks as he is in the toy aisle looking at trucks. A fond phrase of his is “I love my big dump truck.”
3. J and C have been calling everything “crazy” lately. I don’t know how or where they learned this word, but they love it. We are trying desperately to get them to reduce their usage of this word or at least get them to use it correctly. On Saturday evening, Daddy B tried making a “funny” out of this word when J looked at B and called him Crazy. B responded by saying “yes, crazy like a fox.” Unfortunately, when J repeated the phrase as “you crazy fox”, the word fox came out as something else. J’s “x” sounds like “ck.” B went into a cold sweat when he realized how horribly it sounded and also realized that church would be in the morning. What a great opportunity for J to demonstrate his new phrase…
(Aside - we didn’t hear anything from J’s Sunday School teachers. And B is no longer referring to himself as “crazy like a fox.”)