This week the kids and I are down in Arizona visiting my parents. For some reason while we were riding in the car today Jake brought up the topic of their first words. This is a conversation that we've had many times before but today it ended a lot differently.
Jake: Do you know what my first word was?
Me: Yep, ball.
Jake: And what was Hannah's first word?
Me: Boom.
Hannah: Yeah, but is that really a word or just an onomatopoeia*?
(Both Mom and I whip our heads around to Hannah....)
Me/Mom: What!?!
Hannah: The spelling of something the way it sounds.
(silence)
And for those of you playing along at home, Webster's defines onomatopoeia as "the naming of a thing or action by the vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss)"
I have no idea what her second word was so if we're not classifying boom as an official word anymore we're in trouble.
7 months ago
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