The kids are having an amazing spurt in
their language development. I can't believe how much they are talking, it is so
cute.
Kate's absolute favourite expression in the
whole wide world is “Mamma! Look here!” I have to “look here” ALL THE TIME! She also loves "come here", "hide away", "hold it" and "Adam! Naughty!"
Adam’s favourite is to give a running commentary on the other road users while we are all in the car. “Car! Car!
Car!” “Motor bike! Motor bike!” “Bus!” “Digger!” He loves all things car related. And it is not good enough for me to say “hmmm”,
or “yes”. I have to repeat what he has
just said so that he is sure I took note of what he just spotted.
However, out of all the road users, his all
time favourite is a truck. He loves
trucks. Except that he can’t seem to pronounce
it just quite right. It is
hysterical. Marko and I can’t wait for a
truck to go past so that he can tell us what it is. We giggle every time. We even bought him a (tr)fuck for Christmas just so that he could say (tr)fuck in front of the grandparents. V childish, I know. I swear I didn’t teach him this!
(terrible quality, apologies! taken with my 1975 cellphone, on a bumpy road, with Afrikaans news bulletin in the background)
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Ahh, the "truck." It took me about a week to realize my son wasn't dropping the F-Bomb, but saying TRuck. We live across the street from a fire station which sounds dreadful, but we live in the middle of nowhere, so rarely do we hear a peep, er, siren. Mega LOVES the firetrucks and we see them all the time, just sort of tooling around. Every time he sees one, it produces that not-so-naughty word... *sigh* Truly, good stuff.
Now when he's 16 and I overhear him use that word on the phone, I will just remind myself of the good ol' days when that really wasn't a bad word. :-)
My girlfriends little guy used to say the same thing. The funniest was when he used to say Chocolate Truck. It would come out " Fuck it Fuck". We used to make him say it over and over and kill ourselves laughing, until my 7 year old caught on to what he was saying. We did get it on video though, and I'm sure it will embarrass him at his wedding!!
My son also loved trucks and he loved this book:
Trucks (Chunky Board Book) (Hardcover)
by Byron Barton
I think it is out of print but you can buy it used on Amazon or half.com. It helped my son learn to read, too. It is very simple pictures of different types of trucks and simple, repetitive language. It is also a board book so it's indestructible.
Try out a dump truck on him. My little guy says "dumb f*ck" every time. And, like Adam, announces them when he sees them: "there's a dumb f*ck!" Why, yes there is. Lots of them, in fact.
Very very childish. Also pant-wettingly funny. I utterly *love* Heather's suggestion, and will zealously hoard it to introduce when my son starts speaking - the joy!
My daughter used to say "cuck" and I would emphasize "Yes, that is a TRRRRR-uck!!". She also called birdies "boobies". So cucks and boobies. Oh, and cats were (kitties) "clitties". My mother in law used to say "Say kitty, say kitty." and then laugh so hard she'd snort. My son resorted to the now-boring "fuck" for truck/stuck/duck but his first word EVER was "shit" clear as a bell, so to each his own :P
Ha..Adam has the same speech quirk as I did. Apparently, I used to run around outside screaming "Where's my fuck?" while my mother stood on the porch saying "I don't know where your TRUCK is".
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Ahh, the "truck." It took me about a week to realize my son wasn't dropping the F-Bomb, but saying TRuck. We live across the street from a fire station which sounds dreadful, but we live in the middle of nowhere, so rarely do we hear a peep, er, siren. Mega LOVES the firetrucks and we see them all the time, just sort of tooling around. Every time he sees one, it produces that not-so-naughty word... *sigh* Truly, good stuff.
Now when he's 16 and I overhear him use that word on the phone, I will just remind myself of the good ol' days when that really wasn't a bad word. :-)
Posted by: Heather | 29 December 2006 at 08:13 PM
My girlfriends little guy used to say the same thing. The funniest was when he used to say Chocolate Truck. It would come out " Fuck it Fuck". We used to make him say it over and over and kill ourselves laughing, until my 7 year old caught on to what he was saying. We did get it on video though, and I'm sure it will embarrass him at his wedding!!
Posted by: victoria | 29 December 2006 at 08:27 PM
Too fucking funny!
Posted by: Becky | 29 December 2006 at 08:56 PM
I love it! My favorite word :)
Posted by: Amanda | 29 December 2006 at 09:02 PM
My son also loved trucks and he loved this book:
Trucks (Chunky Board Book) (Hardcover)
by Byron Barton
I think it is out of print but you can buy it used on Amazon or half.com. It helped my son learn to read, too. It is very simple pictures of different types of trucks and simple, repetitive language. It is also a board book so it's indestructible.
Posted by: 21stCenturyMom | 29 December 2006 at 09:39 PM
My 21-month old boys prefer "cuck!". Especially, "biiiiiiig cuck!". Which, you know, is not any better, but just as funny.
Posted by: Emmie (Better Make It A Double) | 29 December 2006 at 09:46 PM
Try out a dump truck on him. My little guy says "dumb f*ck" every time. And, like Adam, announces them when he sees them: "there's a dumb f*ck!" Why, yes there is. Lots of them, in fact.
Posted by: Heather | 29 December 2006 at 10:24 PM
Very very childish. Also pant-wettingly funny. I utterly *love* Heather's suggestion, and will zealously hoard it to introduce when my son starts speaking - the joy!
Posted by: alchemilla | 30 December 2006 at 12:08 AM
My brother was NOTORIOUS for this slip up. Lovely when your dad's a minister.
Posted by: Judy | 30 December 2006 at 02:26 AM
My daughter used to say "cuck" and I would emphasize "Yes, that is a TRRRRR-uck!!". She also called birdies "boobies". So cucks and boobies. Oh, and cats were (kitties) "clitties". My mother in law used to say "Say kitty, say kitty." and then laugh so hard she'd snort. My son resorted to the now-boring "fuck" for truck/stuck/duck but his first word EVER was "shit" clear as a bell, so to each his own :P
Posted by: Amy | 30 December 2006 at 04:54 AM
OMG, Tertia, that is hilarious! I so needed a laugh tonight and you totally delivered. Thank you!
Posted by: Beth in Michigan | 30 December 2006 at 04:57 AM
LOL so cute and funny, T! Thanks for posting this. I can't wait until Drew hits this stage ;)
Posted by: heathersak | 30 December 2006 at 07:55 AM
Ah, yes, I remember those days well. "Fire fuck! Garbage fuck! Blue fuck! Big fuck!"
Posted by: Orange | 01 January 2007 at 12:58 AM
Thanks for making my New Year's Eve at home alone with the twins something to laugh about!!! Sooooo funny! I am PML!!! xoxo
Posted by: Suzie-Q. | 01 January 2007 at 03:10 AM
Ha..Adam has the same speech quirk as I did. Apparently, I used to run around outside screaming "Where's my fuck?" while my mother stood on the porch saying "I don't know where your TRUCK is".
Posted by: pepper | 01 January 2007 at 10:15 AM
AHahahahahahahaha!
Thanks for the laughs. All of you. Really. Too, too funny!
Posted by: projgen | 04 January 2007 at 01:46 AM