Fork and Clock
What do these things have in common? Both have caused me a good bit of humorous embarrassment in public.
When GlitterGirl was learning to talk, fork did not come out as fork. It came out as the eff word. Not that it sounded like the eff word, it was exactly like the eff word.
At a restaurant upon being seated she grabbed her fork and shouted “FORK!!”. But of course it sounded like a 17 month old screaming an obscenity in the restaurant. I’d have been embarrassed even if she’d gotten the word right, since she wasn’t using her “restaurant voice”, but to scream in a restaurant AND have it sound like a very very bad word? Ouch. All I could do was say “fork, she’s saying fork” in a meek voice that the tables closest to us heard but not the rest of the restaurant.
Which brings us to Clock. TwinkleToes for some reason has to point out every clock she sees. Loudly and with gusto. She can’t say the “L” sound.
I find myself loudly saying “Clock? Where’s the clock? Oh, there’s the clock!” more times during a shopping trip than you can imagine.
I had no idea there were so many clocks scattered around public places.
August 27th, 2007 at 9:27 am
That is soooo funny!!! I can just picture these adorable little girls shouting their new words. I could picture myself doing the same is you — loudly saying clock so that others realize it’s a clock we’re talking about. Ha ha ha.
I am vacationing with our daughter in Ocean City, MD. We’ve always taught her no banging on the table with a fork or anything else. Well last night we went out to dinner and realized that everyone bangs on the table down here to get crab or whatever seafood out of their shell. My mom and I realized the no banging on the table lessson is a hard one to enforce down here. Ha!!!!
August 27th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
ROFL
OMG
STILL ROFL
August 27th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
i laughed so hard, tears poured, snot ran, people asked if i was okay. these are the true joys of parenthood. now if you can just get it on tape you can add it to the wedding montage.
August 27th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
So funny! My friends’s son has the same problem with bulldozer sounding EXACTLY like bull*#@itter and and his truck sounds a lot like the eff word. It’s so “bad” that her ex-mother-in-law felt the need to have a talk with her about these inappropriate words she’s teaching Ben. ROFL!
August 28th, 2007 at 7:38 am
I just love your stories about GG and TT! My two year old nephew’s t’s come out like f’s, so it sounds like he is saying the eff word when he says truck. Of course, he loves trucks, so every time he sees a truck, he has to yell “truck! truck!” I have wanted to hide a few times!
August 28th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
We have the exact same clock problem. Fun huh?
August 29th, 2007 at 10:47 am
hahahahahah, can’t stop laughing. My friend’s little girl can’t say “s” very well (she’s 2) and it sounds like “f” and she loves suckers….so you know how that comes out!! She tries not to let her see “suckers” in public. ha!
September 5th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
LMAO!!!!!!! TOO FUNNY!!!!