Funny things Eli says

Eli has amazing powers of pronunciation. He can be incredibly precise in his little sentences, like this morning’s “I want my blanket” and his most complicated sentence yet: “I want to wash that.” (Seriously. He’s pretty amazing in the talking department.) He tries words over and over until he says them just right. But I still get the biggest kick out of the funny things he mis-pronounces. For example, “sausage” is always “sa-doot.” “TV” is “tee-boo.” Cheerios are “jujoes,” and the other day when I handed him a bowl of Cheerios he excitedly proclaimed: “Yow, it’s the jujoes!” He’s working hard on “fork” and “sit,” but right now they just come out as, you know. Cuss words. Hilarious.

But this is my new favorite: Eli has his little daycare friends, and he says all their names just fine — Brandon, Mai-Mai (Madeleine), Marco. His best friend, though, is Caleb, and you can tell Eli likes him best, because Caleb gets a rapper name. Instead of calling him “Caleb,” Eli calls him, “K-Beep.” Today I asked him if he was going to roll with Caleb when he got to daycare and he said, “roll K-Beep.” Awesome. I love talking.