Brooming, Macella and the Camboose

Just a few of the things i want to remember M saying.

He was late to talk, this boy of mine. We'd sit and read him books. Point out familiar objects. Sing him songs and still only a handful of words at 18 months. Slowly he added to his vocabulary (as most kids do) and its grown now into sentences filled with words that sometimes i am surprised he even knows the meaning of. Things like "interesting" or "actually"...used appropriately!

As proud as i am for all the words that he knows, i am still in love with the few words he still mixes up or mispronounces. He says Brooming for sweeping. He calls the Acella train the Macella..and a caboose a "Camboose". He once in a while will say he is "hidening"..when we play hide and seek. (that is a favorite of mine! "mom i'm hidening. come find me"...) He calls Burger King- King Burger and Toilet paper has occasionally been called Paper Toilet. Oh, and his newest is a strange but cute one. He calls the dash in a phone number a "crumb"...555 -crumb- 1212. I have no idea where he got that word, but he is 100% sure that is what the dash is called!

This little boy is turning 4 this week! FOUR! and he's learned so many words.
But by far the best thing he says (at least to date) is when he puts his arms around me and says "i can love you if you want!"