My girls like boobies.

It’s funny when kids start to talk because that’s when you finally get to find out what you sound like when you talk. It’s like looking in a mirror for the first time. People can describe what you look like and you can see other people, but until you see the mirror you don’t really know what you look like. Consider kids a verbal mirror.

Friday is movie day at our house. We watch limited tv during the week and try to keep active as much as possible so as a reward we watch a movie on Friday afternoons after nap time. (Ah, nap time. I’ll get to that later.) One Friday, the girls came running down the hall to the living room ready for their movie and yelled some garbled baby gibberish that only parents understand. What they said translates to “I want to watch boobies!” Just as I was thinking, “Really? Hmm, yeah me too…” it hit me that they meant movies. They meant movies but said boobies.

Funny when kids mispronounce words but the word that they wind up saying is actually a word. Like just a few weeks ago in Bible study one of the girls said something about needing a shirt, except that she left off the all-important “r” sound. Suzi was quick to assure everyone that she meant “shirt” as I was too busy laughing.