Kiddle's speech has improved dramatically in the last month or so. He's probably still a bit hard to understand if you don't know him, and there are certainly times WE don't know what he's saying either. But lately I've been so impressed with his clarity, his increased flexibility in using language and that he's adding words or phrases or concepts that he's picked up at school and — this is the important part — I CAN UNDERSTAND HIM. Before, if I didn't know exactly what he was saying, or couldn't put it in context, it was all gobbledy-gook.
So I'm retiring the title of Mush Mouth. Going forward, his always interesting, and often funny, approach to language will be known as "kiddle-isms."
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It's always amused me to hear my words come back to me out of the mouth of a three year old, and now I have the added enjoyment of hearing his teacher and classmates, too. Lately he's started saying "unh-uh" (as in, "Do you want peanut butter for dinner?" "Unh-uh!") and I can just picture Ms Tara's face everytime he pops out an, "Oh my gosh!"
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Two of his favourite animals in the jungle? A pink-a-mingo and a croc-a-idle. Too cute!
So I'm retiring the title of Mush Mouth. Going forward, his always interesting, and often funny, approach to language will be known as "kiddle-isms."
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It's always amused me to hear my words come back to me out of the mouth of a three year old, and now I have the added enjoyment of hearing his teacher and classmates, too. Lately he's started saying "unh-uh" (as in, "Do you want peanut butter for dinner?" "Unh-uh!") and I can just picture Ms Tara's face everytime he pops out an, "Oh my gosh!"
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Two of his favourite animals in the jungle? A pink-a-mingo and a croc-a-idle. Too cute!
