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« Meeting Chance | Main | That's The Spirit » April 28, 2004Doggies!My son Bennett, almost 20 months old (!), is just starting to use words. Bye-Bye is his current favorite - and he drags it out in a sing-songy drawl. Another favorite word is "Doggies!", though it more often comes out as "Doddies!" And it comes out a lot. I bought him a book about Clifford the Big Red Dog. There are dogs on every page. "Doddies!" ... "Doddies!" ... "Doddies!" ... "Doddies!" ... "Doddies!" ... "Doddies!" ... He sees a dog once and its "Doddies!" for an hour. Even if it wasn't a dog. Last night he spotted a rabbit in the back yard. "Doddies!" "It's a bunny, Bennett." "Doddies!" And so on, long after the You think maybe I'm supposed to buy him a dod? Comments
I apologise if I sound like a used car salesman... Please check out http://www.babybumblebee.com/store/main_store.cfm At about 18 months my little girl could count to three pretty well. We bought her the "Baby Math Sequencing" video at about 21 months and a day later was able to count to 10 (granted, we had been working on it for a while before then). Now, at about 26 months she can identify all the letters in the alphabet on her own. Great products. And, uh, if your boy plays as rough as my girl ... get a stuffed toy. heh Posted by: Another Proud Father at April 28, 2004 4:20 PMGirls learn faster than boys. And my boy has a 6-year-old sister who talks nonstop and never stops moving, so he probably figures he can't get a word in edgewise! Posted by: Bill Hobbs at April 28, 2004 4:27 PMJust wait until he tries to say the word "clock". Yep, you can imagine how that word can be misspoken by a child. I had a hilarious moment at pre-k one day when my 4 year old daughter (at the time) announced to the entire class that her daddy had a really cool cock. Whew boy, that was funny as hell. Fortunately the teacher had a sense of humor and realized what she was saying. I didn't help matters by falling over in hysterics. This made the kids realize that something had been said that was very IMPORTANT and they tried to remember what it was so they could tell their parents. Yep, we became known as the parents with the really cool cock. (sigh......) Posted by: Claudia at April 28, 2004 4:32 PMAll dudes need dods. But get Bennet one that can knock 'em behind over teakettle when needed. Most any friendly large dod'll do. Matter of fact, make it a very confident one. Why? Because only a cocky dod'll do. Posted by: Alan Kellogg at April 28, 2004 4:33 PMheh, fair enough.
Oh dear. Are you telling me they have even _more_ energy when they're 6?!?! Posted by: Another Proud Father at April 28, 2004 4:37 PMBetter than a doddy... ...get your boy a Beadle. This one's only six months older than my infant daughter, and gets into about as much trouble as I did when I was his age (human years, that is). Posted by: furious (yet another proud father) at April 28, 2004 5:02 PMOK, a bit of advice from grann here: I'm with Ruth on this. No doggie until the boy is housebroken. Posted by: Random Numbers at April 28, 2004 5:40 PMBill, don't you need Lileks' permission? Posted by: lyle at April 28, 2004 7:19 PMA beagle, you are a mad man. I only had to look after a friend's beagle and every time I tried to photograph him all I got was a blur. Posted by: Steven DallaVicenza at April 28, 2004 9:05 PMGet a border collie, if you can let it run in the yard occasionally. Preferably a female. They are great with kids, very intelligent, easy to live with. Plus, when my son was 20 months, I trained our border collie to herd him (they'll herd just about anything that moves) and keep him in the yard (on the farm). It was pretty amusing watching him pump his fat little legs, trying to get to the gate before she could stop him. He never made it, but they sure had fun. Posted by: JorgXMcKie at April 29, 2004 7:34 PMBill just be glad you know what a doddie IS! Mine at 2 1/2 had this thing for "sur-gur-gurs." For months my husband and just drew blanks. We had no idea what she wanted--surgurgur this and surgurgur that. After a few months her older sister informed us (as if we were particularly dense) that a surgurgur was a quite obviously a cheeseburger. Posted by: sbk at April 29, 2004 9:18 PMPost a comment
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