homophones with kiddo

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We are indeed in the Cambrian Language Explosion with the prince. It seems he's got a couple of new words per day right now - just yesterday his dad and I told him for the million-and-a-halfth time that Mommy could pick him up if he wanted up, but Daddy couldn't pick him up because Daddy was busy cooking, and the prince said "Daddy cooking." (Right! Daddy's cooking dinner! "He cooking." So okay, one noun and one verb and that's all we get right now. No problem. Direct objects will follow.) Watching him shape his little mouth around this word was also pretty cute. I'm looking at the previous list and realizing this might be his first word with consonants this far back in his mouth - he pronounces "chair" as if it were "key," but "cook" has a /k/ at the beginning and the end and a round vowel in between, which is pretty complex for him at this stage and he was saying it so deliberately and so carefully. ♥

Anyway, he's also all about the homophones. There's a part of his favorite bedtime story where I point out a (tortoise and) hare, and he invariably reaches up and pats his hair at that point. Similarly, when his dad is dressing him in the morning and asks if he wants to wear his clothes, he lifts up the clothes and covers his face because that's how we do peekaboo, hide behind a drape and say "where's Daddy?" And the past few nights in the same bedtime story when I point out a whale, he pretends to rub his eyes and cry - whale/wail. Which makes us wonder: Where is he learning the word "wail"? It can kind of only be at day care and I'm a little bemused by that, not gonna lie. :-}