The Precious Language of Children

When I asked Madi what she did in school today, she replied, "We eated Oreo cookies and drinked mulk". The obvious grammatical errors made me chuckle and reminded me of all the sweet mispronunciations that are slowly leaving her vocabulary. Our absolute, hands-down favorite is "Porfeck" (perfect). She says it with such enthusiasm that we don't even want to correct her. They are small for such a short time. We love embracing the imperfections knowing that they will change--slowly, surely--we see the change before our eyes (and ears:)