Rare occurrence

Today, with Charley and Chris off to their respective schools, I had one of those perfect moments with Sam.

He's is too funny these days. He's learning new words every day and loves to try them out. Say... 1000 times in a row.

He's fairly easy to understand (which makes a nice change from his brother), but there is one word with which he's taken some creative liberties.

It's not a hard word. It's 'dog'. I don't know what little synapse mis-fired when he 'learned' this word, but it's not exactly right. Or as Charley says "Oh Sam, that's not even close!".

In addition to capturing the mis-pronounced 'dog' in this video, I was also extra-fortunate to get not one, but TWO instances of SPEED ARMS.

Sam's quirkiness obviously extends beyond his creative dialoguing. He's very expressive, particularly in his movements. He does a lot of impromptu interpretive dance. He likes to start a gymnastics session in interesting places (most recently the library). And so on.

Now SPEED ARMS, which indeed must be written in all caps, is my favourite.

At some point, Sam decided that in order to ambulate more quickly he must develop a new move (SPEED ARMS) to accelerate.

I can only think that he's whooshing back his imagined cape when he does this. I told Chris that he could do this forever and I'd laugh every time. Chris declared that it would stop being funny at 18. I disagree.

And now, for your enjoyment: Mispronounced Dog and SPEED ARMS
(a series of words never-before joined).