Speaking Owen

Owen had me laughing on the way home from Wednesday night service tonight. He wanted to sing, so we sang the Veggie Tales theme song and without prompting, he started singing along with me for the first time. It was so fun! He was trying to keep up with me for some of it, ahead of me for some, and right on target for a few words. I was enjoying myself immensely. He has sung with me when we sing the alphabet but any other songs he usually just wants me to sing or he only fills in the words that I leave blank. We sang the song over and over and I was laughing which got him laughing and pretty soon we were giggling together. Then he started asking to sing the “other song”. What other song? I kept asking and offering different options which he consistently refused. He started to get upset that I wasn’t singing the “other song” to which I responded…”how about…blllbblblblbl?” (however you spell that spitting noise) This got him really giggling and the rest of the way home I had the easiest audience I’ve ever humored. He was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to hyperventilate. I love having a two year old boy.

Tonight when we got in the car we began driving away from the playground at the church. Owen asked, “can you say playground?” I snickered and answered as we always expect him too, “playground” I said. Then I asked him to say it and he said it correctly. The reason this is significant is that up until tonight I’ve only heard him say “slayground” or “sayground”. He had major difficulty putting the p and the l together in any word that combined them. Please was “slease” and play was usually “say”.

Owen also has a hard time saying bridge. He loves to drive over bridges and when he knows we are near one he asks if we are “going to find bidch”. Yes, bidch. It sounds just like he’s using offensive language and I try not to laugh at him but correcting it has been useless. One day he’ll surprise us I’m sure.