The Baby is Sweeping

Scott is fairly well-spoken. By that I mean that he has plenty to say and you can usually understand what he's talking about -- but maybe it's just that he speaks so loudly that you can't help but catch every word. Although his vocabulary is coming along quite well, he has a few aspects of the language that still elude him. For example, his [L] often comes out as a [W], as you can hear at the beginning of this video clip ("the baby's going to sweep in here").



(You may have noticed that he dodged the question about whether there was a baby in his mom's tummy. I think he worried about making an official statement on camera, but I can confirm to you that there is, in fact, a baby in his mommy's tummy. That baby is likely doing plenty of sleeping and very little sweeping.)

Some interesting words that come out of Scott's l/w shift are:

Sweep = sleep
Wacey = Lacey (his cousin)
Wub = love
Weed = lead (as in "The red car is in the lead!" announcer voice from Shake n' Go Speedway toy)

In addition to some of these speech challenges, he also has some words that gets a little mixed up. They slowly sort themselves out and disappear, so here's a glimpse at some of the things that we've observed lately:

Wuse = use
Gotfor = forgot
Breakish = breakfast
Pellow = pillow
Freach = reach
Wizzers = scissors
Dem = them
Hayna = Hayden (cousin)
Aowy = Alli (cousin)
Dabin = David (cousin)
Brad = Brett (cousin)

Some words are easier to identify than others, especially for us. I doubt anyone but his parents would understand a phrase like:

"I gotfor my wizzers and I can't freach dem."
Of course, he's come along way from this Oct 2008 video of Scott saying "frog and bunny" -- found in the archives just today:


The young man in the video is a good friend who was visiting from Ottawa at the time, and whose last name matches Scotty's middle name exactly.