Dex-isms

The firstborn's language skills are progressing at an amusing pace:

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[In a bathroom stall at a restaurant, glancing sideways at the grout lines on the tile floor]

"Look, Daddy, a letter X!"

[Sitting on the counter, helping me make spaghetti, snapping an uncooked noodle in half]

"Hey!  I made a letter T."

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[Training by adults and kids' literature]

"Dex, what does Mommy say?"
"I love you."

"Dex, what does Uncle Buster say?"
"Scram!"
[re: the dog]

[In the clinic waiting room, before Tavish's one-year check-up and shots]

"Dex, what does the doctor say?"
"No more monkeys jumpin' onna bed!"

Comments

[La La Linda]

Two days in a row, I left here smiling from ear to ear. Thanks for that, dude :-)

[TerriTorial]

Adorable.

[Tal]

Oh that was a good one...I'm gonna have that song stuck in my head all day now!

[Mark]

Awesome. Ben loves that book, too.

Dex is quite the linguist now. Get that boy typing, Simon.

[Moksha Gren]

Very cute, Dex. I'll have to file away the trick of making letters from spaghetti sticks. Not a bad learning tool.

Are the monkeys a book? I remember my mom singing that song to me and my brother as kids, but I don't recall a book form of it. But yeah...now I've got it stuck in my head.

[Mark]

Yeah, it's a song and a book. Ben loves both. Even more, though, he likes "one little, two little, three little Benjamins, four little five little, six little Benjamins..." etc.