New Words

It's always a joy to hear your child learn to say new things. They have finally figured out how to communicate in the way that most people accept as traditional. In a few short months they go from crying to grunting to giggling to jabbering to syllables, and then finally to real, recognizable words. Every day we are amazed to hear new identifiable words come out of our sons' mouth. It's almost a better form of entertainment for us than most TV shows.
Cannon recently started muttering a word over and over again on Thursday. It had been rainy and foggy, and so we started teaching him those words. He rolled the sounds of the letters around in his mouth, and started to repeat over and over again "fog". He has nailed down the 'f' and the 'o', but the 'g' is a little bit tricky to get just right. So it sort of morphed into a hard, guttural 'ck' sound instead. As I listened to him, I went a little bit pale. Since kids usually mimic what they hear their parents say, this was going to reflect rather badly on Rich and I. Imagine if you will a 18 month old boy toddling around mumbling "fock, fock, fock, fock". Now, imagine him saying it at some friends house, and in the grocery store, and AT CHURCH!!! Unfortunately we don't have to imagine, because it all happened.....