Oh David

I got to have my niece and nephew for part of this past weekend. We had a ton of fun. We spent some time watching Alvin and Chipmunks, playing at the park, and just hanging out and being goofy. My nephew (3) is in that stage where there are certain letters that just don't come out the way they are supposed to. One of those challenging combinations for him are the letters "s" and "t." When the two of them are put together, he makes them sound like the letter "d."

When we were playing at the park, David was digging in the sand and came across a bubble container. I was ten feet away playing with his sister on the monkey bars and David was getting a little frustrated because he could not find the stick that is in the container to blow bubbles. My nephew never says anything quietly and began yelling, "Aunt Debbie, I can't find the (st)ick, I can't find the (st)ick. AUNT DEBBIE, where's the (st)ick." The parents of course were looking at me to see how I was going to react and trying not to laugh, I explained that he was saying stick and we are working on his "st" In the end, we all kinda chuckled a little bit but if I had a camera to capture their faces when he first started yelling. Never a dull moment....