Eli came home the other day, so excited to tell me what he had learned. Since it is very rare for a sentence to begin around here..., " Guess what I learned today at school...", I was very attentive!
He paused for a minute to collect his thoughts and then said, "y.. y.. y.. Yellow"! With a big grin!
I tried for a very small second to be excited, but I couldn't do it!
"NO Eli, say it the way you always say it!" I couldn't help myself. I wanted the little boy before me to at least keep his adorable way of pronouncing the word yellow!
I even encouraged him, "come on Eli, it's 'lellow'", I said as I grinned at him. He just gave me that adorable dimpled grinned! He had learned it and he knew I was teasing him.
Now he sees it as a joke! He thinks it's hilarious that I want him to say yellow the way he always has. In his sweet innocent little boys voice!
It is so hard sometimes to watch them grow up! I just want to cling to the innocence as long as possible -and longer!
It has been nearly a week now since he reported his new discovering of the letter Y. We still go back and forth when I hear him say it "correctly" as his teacher taught him!
I have a little bit of peace now though as I heard him get excited a couple of days ago about something he did in his "Biz Ed" class! I love this little man, wish I could hold onto him forever!
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