Charlie's New Word

Charlie has a pretty limited vocabulary at the moment. He just doesn't feel the need to talk a lot and since he is not a crying, screaming, frustrated non-speaker, I haven't worried too much. He can call for me or his dad, he yells some derivative of "Calvin" and "Henry" (usually when we are calling them), he says "No" very authoritatively, and has started saying, "Heeeey!" when someone does something he edoesn't like. Which is hilarious, I might add.

Today especially, however, he has been "chattering," trying out all kinds of vowels and consonants and multi-syllable explanations of things we can't really understand. But one word he has clearly said over and over again, for some unknown reason. So we spent the better part of an hour trying to get him to say it again and keep his excited older brothers out of the picture, because it is stinkin' cute. (If I do say so myself.) Finally, we achieved a sufficiently short, sweet, and clear example of his new word. I promise it will make you smile. Almost as goofily as it made me smile.

(Disclaimer: Yes, my toddler gets ahold of markers sometimes. Yes, my husband does call our children, "Dude." And yes, my hair is getting ridiculously long. But really, you should just notice my baby's cute little voice.)