Pauley Wants a Cracker

Jakers is talking up a storm lately and the funny thing is I can understand most of it. Not that every word is exactly as it ought to be, but his diction has improved dramatically in the past 30 days.

"Nathaniel, stop crying! Just tell me what you want. Point to it!"

"Chumgobee alchonka esdow."

"Fuck. That didn't work."

"Fffuck."

"Oh-oh. Jakers, what did you say?"

"Ffuck."

"Fuck?"

"Fuck."

"Wait, let me grab the ABCs book. Look at this Jakers, 'A for Apple'. Can you say 'Apple'?"

"Fuck."

"No, no, no....apple. Okay, how about 'B for Bat'?"

"Fuck."

We've been able to move him off the 'F' word by nodding yes and saying 'fork' as we show him the eating utensil. He's coming around to our way of thinking.

All of this is extremely fascinating. For entertainment we now spit out words and see how Parrot Boy will interpret what we say; no more TV. According to Nathaniel here is the proper way to pronounce the following words, phrases or names:

milk - malk
open it - omic
arm - alm
all gone - all gong
cucumber - gumtumber
towel - torwel
tomato - maido
golf - jawlf
pepper - papu
spaghetti - esketti
cup - atup
John - Chon
Jessie - Jedgie
Jo Jo - Cho Cho
Truffle - Fuffle
Ayva - Eeawh
Jim - Jimp

and, unfortunately...

fuck - fuck

Time to get out the bar of soap!