Speech lessons please...

Not for me... for my little Emerson.

He has a few choice mispronunciations. Here is the cream of the crop though...

For a long time now, he has said the word truck. Only in the language mind of Em here is how it gets translated...

truck = no tr sound... only the lovely "F". Yep, that makes it sound like my two year old is saying the "F" word. And no, I cannot even bring myself to type it. Plus, once that word is out there in cyberspace, who knows what some freak could key word and end up here... I digress...

The lovely "truck" which can sometimes come out "fruck" has been said for a while. It is wonderful when shopping and elderly people talk to him and he says

"I have a "_uck. A big big _uck" Nice.

One time we even ran into our pastor at the grocery store... Emerson excitedly told about the trucks he had with him... over and over and over. Thankfully he understood, but still... you wonder if people think he is hearing this at home. (um, he's not, but thanks for wondering!)

Now, we come to last week...

We are in the car, and Emerson sees a large dumptruck. Only when he talks about a dumptruck he leaves off the "P" sound in dump... think for a minute...

Dump - minus the "p"

+ truck minus the "tr" and subbed in with an "F"

Did you say it? Do you know what my child know says ALL the time when we are driving...

"Look Ma! Look at the Dum_uck! "

Yes, this is really true, and he is obsessed with dumptrucks and all we hear about all day are all the "Dum_ucks".

In other news, Lincoln has taken the word summer vacation to heart. He is still fast asleep, at 8:45am. He even told Micah last night that he was planning on sleeping in. Love it!! His last day of school was yesterday, and were I not so lazy I would go upload the pictures of the little cutie on his last day, and getting his little certificate to go to kindergarten. (um, the lack of photo would indicate that I am in fact being lazy, we will blame it on the... come on, you know what I am going to type... the current state of knockedupedness!!) I have some LOs handy, I'll scan those and get them on here. These are for the new baby's book. I will get a new belly shot this week to prove that despite the 1 pound weight gain, my girth is great. That should totally be a country song... "My Girth is Great" by Cindy Sue and the Knockedupedness Band. I know, now you can't understand why I don't have a career in the music industry...