New Words

Dear Connor,

Daddy and I have inadvertently taught you a couple bad words. One time when we were all in the car, another driver cut us off and honked so Daddy angrily growled, "F*** it." You heard him and now whenever we're in the car and you hear another car honk, you say the same thing in the same growling tone as Daddy did (I admit, it's funny. But it's a bad word so you shouldn't say it!).

The words I taught you are a little less offensive but still bad: shut up. Mochi was going nuts one day and barking like crazy at some kids playing behind our house so I yelled at him to shut up. So now when Mochi barks really loudly, you often yell at him, "Shuh up!" Oops.

Fortunately, you have learned a lot of good, useful words in the past month, too: race, mark, set, go (you say these when we race your toy cars), gen (again), bed, tub, kick, jook jook (Chinese for rice porridge), ayoo (where are you), ago (where did it go), cah-yo(avocado), cin-mun (cinnamon), treasure, top, story, winny (windy), raining, slippy (slippery), bummy (bumpy), fedder (feather), toys, acorn, aboose (caboose), open, buh-yah (peanut butter), ride, kick-it (cricket), farm, punkin (pumpkin), fire truck, I get it, sweater, giraffe, hippo, tar (guitar), honeydew, couch, neck, gone, fan fan (Chinese for rice), tiss-yoo (tissue), play, der it is (there it is), pink, shower, choong liang (Chinese for shower), puzzle, connor (crayon--I don't know why it sounds like your name when you say crayon), pick-ow (pillow), hold, grass and dinner. You also learned the word "crescent" today, which I think is pretty impressive!

Let's stick to the words in the last paragraph and not the ones in the first two, okay?

Love,
Mom