Lucy's speech is really coming along. She tries to say almost every word and usually is somewhere close to how it actually sounds. She has started to put two words together, like "all gone" or "I go" or the other night she came out with Dave's shoes on and said "shoes...Daddy" So adorable!
Even her politeness is increasing. She usually says "please" (which sounds like "mease") with a big smile, "thank you" (dank do) when you give her anything, and even "Sorry" (pronounced perfectly) after she hits people. The fact that she hits people just to say "Sorry,"... um yeah, we are working on that. It's almost impossible for me to resist giving her what she wants when she says "please" and "thank you" so sweetly, but I am trying really hard to hold strong and make sure she isn't too spoiled!
Even her politeness is increasing. She usually says "please" (which sounds like "mease") with a big smile, "thank you" (dank do) when you give her anything, and even "Sorry" (pronounced perfectly) after she hits people. The fact that she hits people just to say "Sorry,"... um yeah, we are working on that. It's almost impossible for me to resist giving her what she wants when she says "please" and "thank you" so sweetly, but I am trying really hard to hold strong and make sure she isn't too spoiled! Just when I was starting to think I had the most genius, most advanced in speech, most cute, most polite, most perfect child on the face of the planet, Lucy graced us with a four letter word, starting with an "f" last Wednesday. Yup, it doesn't get much worse than that folks! While riding in the car, Lucy just started saying the f-bomb like a broken record all the way home. At first I tried to figure out what she was trying to say "Did you want a fork honey?" "Oh did you want your sock off?" "Are you having lots of fun?" "Oh yeah that is a big truck." She just kept on saying the f-word, really slowly and exaggerated, with perfect pronunciation. I decided I would just ignore it and surely she would never say it again, but she has said it at least 10 times every day since then. I usually have to hide my face in my shirt so she doesn't see me laughing. This morning I was helping her say a prayer on her food and she could say "father""thank you" and "food" pretty close to perfect, but then when we got to "bless" it just came out as the f-word. What am I ever going to do with my little angel? I am totally afraid to take her out in public! What do people do to a mother with a 19 month old daughter who cusses? No one will ever want to be our friends! We can just kiss playdates goodbye! Before I had my own child, if I heard a little kid using language like that I would have assumed that the parents had terrible mouths, but now that it has happened to me and I know me and Dave both have clean language, I guess I can chalk this one up as one more lesson in not being judgemental of others. You would think I would have learned that one already! It seems like every time you think something bad about someone else's kid, that exact same thing happens to you. Oh well, we'll get through this! Any advice on this issue is certainly very welcome!
