My little Eli is such a chatterbox. For being only 18 months old, he has an amazing vocabulary, and communicates so well, I can always usually figure out what he is asking for. And no, this isn’t just me bragging about how awesome my kiddo is (although he is pretty awesome), I’ve been told time and time again, from relatives, friends, doctors and random people at the mall how impressed they are by well he talks. *blush* That’s my baby.

It’s always funny to listen to a kiddo figure out a new word. Most of the time that word doesn’t come out quite right. The word sit often has an extra “h” hiding in it. Or truck sometimes sounds like it starts with an “f”, much to my embarrassment. Oh well, he’s learning. And I’m doing my best not to burst out laughing when he accidentally stumbles on a “naughty word”.

Tonight we were reading through WHERE WHALE WENT, which is quickly becoming one of Eli’s favorites books. As we read through the book, I point to each of whale’s new friends and have Eli repeat it back to me. Prawn morphs into Tron. Puffer Fish becomes puf-fer-ish. Turtle is still turtle. And octopus turns into applesauce. Yup, you read that right. Applesauce.

How in the world Eli put octopus and applesauce together, I’ll never know. I guess they do have similar sounds, but come on, they look nothing alike! Applesauce is brownish, squishy and sweet. Octopus’s are squiggly, wiggly and have 8 arms. Not one similarity. Silly kiddo. Maybe this is a sign that I need to get his eyes checked out? j/k

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