Sunday, June 22, 2008

Chit Chat


One of our favorite regular activities with Christopher is teaching him how to talk. He's gotten good at repeating our words if we begin with, "Say..." But because his enunciation still isn't perfected, we enjoy listening to him attempt to say whatever we ask him to try. When he wants the movie "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," he calls for, "Bain! Bain!" Of course, Aaron tries to get him to say, "Chitty Chitty," exploiting Topher's oblivious to naughty words. When he wants to hear his Thomas the Tank Engine songs, he begs, "Trai! Trai!" He's getting better at the "pl" sound in, "Please!" Christopher also calls, "Poo!" or "Far!" if he hears someone pass gas. He overheard a tv character chant, "Fusspot, fusspot!" And when Christopher tried to imitate him, what came out sounded more like, "fuh..." than "fuss." The other word he's had to practice recently has been, "Sorry," which usually comes out as, "Sorh." But more often than not, whenever I ask him to repeat something to practice his words, it sounds close enough to distinguish. And his sweet little voice makes the word a wonderful new discovery for both us.

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