Jack-isms.

[navygreen]

I'm really holding onto the last vestiges of Jack's babyhood. One could arguably say that he's not been a baby for a long time, but I won't hear that. He's *my* baby, you see.

There are so many things that your children say in particularly cute fashions as they learn to speak, and you almost wish they'd never learn to get the pronunciation right. We've already passed the point of pronunciation mistakes with Jack, but there is still one gem left: the "fr" sound instead of "th." For example, he still says "free," "frirteen" and "frirty" when counting to thirty. And it's adorable. :-)

Though I'm not sure how to classify it, he also is quite fond of using this phrase when something is no longer where it once was: "dis-AND-pearing" (for "disappear"). It's particularly cute when he'll quickly ask me where something "dissed to" or "peared to," rather than saying the whole word.

But since most of his problems are no longer speech-related, we find more usage errors - usually when he's trying to use a bigger word than what he'd normally say. For example, he'd been waiting all day to help me make spaghetti for dinner (he likes to break up the noodles into the pot of boiling water), and he clambored onto the counter to help just as I was setting the pot of cold water on the burner. I explained to him that it would still be a while before I needed his help, that the water needed to start boiling first.

Very somber, he looked at me and said, "It's okay. I don't matter." I said back, "Yes, you do matter, Jack. Very much. But the water's not ready yet." And he answered me back, "No, I don't matter if the water's not ready. I'll sit here and wait until it IS boiling."

I realized immediately that he didn't actually mean "matter" (he's too young to have such depressing self-esteem issues!) - he meant "care." But it was such a cute flub!

Jack-isms. They're going quickly, but the ones we've still got are precious.

Comments

[angelrose.livejournal.com]

Boy can I relate to this post, it's hard to come to grips that your baby isn't your 'baby' anymore. They grow up way too fast, I cannot believe Nicholas will be starting kindergarten! My baby!

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

Well, that's one good thing to come out of our decision to keep Jack back, I guess. I won't have to "let" him go until next year. ;-)

[katielovesmatt.livejournal.com]

that was such a sweet post.

I totally know what you mean. Matthew has certain things that he says that are all his own..I just love it. A lot of time it's the tone of voice he uses when he says something, which doesn't quite translate over the internet.

I do have to say he said the cutest thing yesterday. Him and Riley were playing in Matthew's room and Matthew looks at me and says "Riley loves me" and I said "yes, he loves you very much" and then he said "Riley's my best friend" it was sooooooo cute, I started tearing up!

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

That is so adorable. I really enjoyed watching the boys really begin to express their love for one another. It's too cute, and yes - it does tug at the mama's heart!

[scenicbeauty.livejournal.com]

Awww...

I have a list in Josh's baby book of stuff he's said that was just so cute.

Like "com-bigg-er" instead of "computer." And when you ask him not to do something he says "I don't will" instead of "I won't." Or in his ABC's when he used to get to the letters "U" and "W" - he would say "me" and "double me." I *miss* that one!!

Josh is only 3 1/2 and he's already losing a lot of his "baby talk" - not that he says everything perfectly or what-have-you, like he still doesn't really say "Y" sounds, they're more like "R"s and other mispronunciations, but he's getting a lot better with using the right words and sounds like we do instead of making up his own little syntax.

I miss the words and miss-words that he's already lost...

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

Those are sooo cute! In our family, there's a story about my cousin Michael, whose middle name was Eugene. When he was younger, he'd tell people that his name was "Michael Me-gene." He also spelled "church" differently than most for a while: "C-H-ME-R-C-H."

Sometimes I wish I had a complete list of all the cute things. Go you for thinking to do that!

[starrchld.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to be able to say things like that! Jack is so adorable:)

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

You will. You'll have lots of stories. :-)

[hypn0tiq.livejournal.com]

I still call JJ my baby. He's my last one (for now). But I'm holding on just as long as I can so I totally understand where you are coming from.
My son still has some little JJ-isms that I don't want to let go of either :D
Aww at Jack. How adorable!

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you can relate. Why do our babies keep growing up?!