I was just telling a friend yesterday that Dominick had been behaving very well at PDO and that I'd never heard of any problems. So today, of course, the teacher told me she'd given him a time out for hitting another boy. She followed this by saying that she calls him her "gentle giant" because he's so much bigger than the other kids and so sweet. Whew! Apparently, today's assault was an isolated incident.
Here are today's Dominisms:
"plug it out" [Pretty clever, actually. What else would be the opposite of plugging in? The next one is in a similar vein.]
"tie it out"
"I'm going to sit on the Boppy. I'm going to feed baby Noel. Oh, I can't feed baby Noel. I doesn't have boo-boos on me."
3 comments:
Love the new Dominisms. The first one IS clever--I think I'll start using that one. The last one is hilarious! Too bad the Dominator is bashing little kids, though. Enjoyed the photos of Noel's haircut.
As a linguistics professor and teacher of language acquisition of children, I find all this fascinating. I feel I can explain the 'muck' for milk as simply his inability to say the 'l' before 'k' at this point. You might hear something like 'fust' for 'first' too, as well as 'tahk' for 'talk'. Not to worry about 'r' & 'l'.
The additional syllables in 'hamburger' and 'rectangle' sound like repeated syllables. I should have been following his progress all along. I probably could have had a publishable paper!
I love to hear children learn their first language.
Something else he's doing is adding a hard consonant in words with an L sound, like "waddle" for yellow and "pidle" for pile. It took me a while to realize what he meant when we were driving and he'd exclaim "flashing waddle!"
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