HE is!

Little One works with a speech therapist, through his school, and we regularly get updates from her as to what they’re working on together so we can continue the work at home.

A while ago, the task was to add the “-ing” sound to words. Little One mastered that in a few quick days and had a very good time showing off his new skills.

Then the speech therapist started working on the letter “k” – specifically, the hard /k/ sound – in the middle of words. Little One has been reluctant to use that sound at all, but he’s been making some good progress with it and, if all goes as planned, he’ll be able to use that sound at the beginning of words (or Oldest One’s name!) soon.

Endearingly, but not to his speech therapist, Little One prefers to use “him” and “her” in place of “he” and “she”. (“Him is going to school!” “Her crashed!”)

We correct him, casually, and he’ll occasionally revise his statement to add those words in, but mostly he’s unconcerned with the difference. It’s not something we’ve been working hard on.

Yesterday we were driving home from school and Little One commented that we were driving past Coffee’s office. Suddenly his little voice piped up, “HE’S AT WORK” and I just about drove off the road.

He said “HE!” And he did it totally unprompted!

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

I know it’s great that he’s making progress, of course, but man, I”m really going to miss his weird little speech habits when he’s fully outgrown them.