Colby Speak

Colby learned the Alphabet song forever ago. And sometime in the last year he learned to identify all the upper-case letters (with some mix-ups now and then). So yesterday we were doing some activities with card stock letters on the table, and one of them was to put them all in order. He did pretty well, singing the alphabet song repeatedly up to the letter he was on. Until he got to "L". He was actually holding the "L" in his hand, but kept looking around the table. Finally he looked at me with a perplexed face and asked "LMNO?" He couldn't find the letter that corresponded with the "LMNO" of the Alphabet song.

If you think about it, that is an awful lot of letters to cram into two beats.

Lately Colby has also been singing made-up songs with "the BYU" thrown in periodically. I don't know where he gets it from. Bryan and I are both BYU alumni, and have a few t-shirts. But we're not fanatics (like a certain sister and brother-in-law). And we never call it "THE BYU". And we never watch BYU sports. We did, however, sing what we remembered of the BYU fight song a couple weeks ago, which ends with a rousing "Gooooooo Cougars!"

Yesterday in the car Colby was singing one of his made-up "the BYU" songs. I hadn't heard him tack on the ending before, but this time he did: "Goooooooo Kroger!"

For those of you not from this area, Kroger is a national grocery store.

And they give free kids cookies, so "Gooooooooo Kroger!" is actually a pretty fitting exclamation for Colby.