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My baby Welles' vocabulary has increased in leaps and bounds in recent months. I am loving watching him transform from the helpless little baby he was, to the independent toddler he is becoming. This transformation is not always easy, for us or for him, but there is so much love, laughter, and pride involved. For example, when I can't understand what he is trying to say, he will throw down and pitch a fit that would register at least a 3.8 on the Richter Scale - higher than that if he happens to be wearing his hard, white church shoes.
But as he is becoming more verbal, and his words are becoming more intelligible, I am sometimes finding myself wishing that he had come equipped with a mute button. We were sitting in the nursery at church a couple of Sundays ago, (alone thankfully) when he started scratching at one of his mosquito bites. As he was scratching, he looked up at me and just as plain as day, the word "Bitch" flowed out of his sweet little baby mouth. So many thoughts ran through my mind at that moment..."Where did he hear that?? Gotta cancel the HBO subscription! Why is my sweet baby calling me the b word??? How big a sin is it to say the b word at church???"
Well, that night in the bathtub, he did it again. Only this time it was obvious that he was referring to his mosquito bites. So I said, "Welles, do you itch?" And that precious little baby said, "Bitch?" I yelled for his father to come, and proceeded to ask Welles again, and got the same reply. Daddy, of course, thought it was the funniest thing since Eddie Murphy. So now, I'm trying to teach him to remove the b from the itch, and it is no easy task. Guess some folks just don't like words that begin with vowels...and if that is the case, can we please find another consonant???
