Couldn’t resist, had to share this story while it’s still fresh in my mind…

Zeeb does a lot of phoneme replacement — using the wrong consonant at the beginning of a word. Instead of “work” it’s “D-urk”, instead of “Christmas” it’s “Fristmas”. And instead of wishing he could “grow up” he wishes to “Frow up” (which sounds just too much like something else and therefore grosses me out every time he says it…) There’s a lot of them, and “F” seems to be a common sound he uses as a replacement. Generally I try to correct him and have him say the right sound. I say, “No it’s ‘Guh-Guh-Grow up” and he’ll repeat, “Guh-Guh…Frow Up”.

So last night, K~ made dinner, almost completely by herself. (I know! How cool is that?!) She made this awesome homemade (as in not from a box like mom does) macaroni and cheese with chicken. Everyone loved it and Zeeb ate his very quickly – well, at least the macaroni part. He gobbled up the noodles and left a pile of chicken on his plate. So when he asked for seconds on noodles I said, “first you have to eat your chicken.” Not the answer he was hoping for. Zeeb looked at his plate rather despondantly and says, “Oh Frap.”

Yeah, I don’t think we’ll be correcting his pronounciation on that one.