Since we call the kids by their full names, you can imagine how hard it is for other kids to "say Mary Grace". Sarah always wants to call Mary Grace "Mary", and William's name for his sister has evolved along with his vocabulary.
He started out calling her Geee-ah, which later became Gay-yet, and today, August 28, 2008, I heard him call her Mary Grace. And he even corrected me when I called her "Gay-yet" (we adopt their vocabulary for fun); "No daddy, not Gay-yet, Mary Grace!".
I've been working with William on changing his affirmative response to a question from "Yet!" to "Yes!", and it's going very well. I think it was one of those situations where it's really cute to hear him say it that way, so you refrain from teaching him the right way. It still catches me off-guard to hear him saying "yes" correctly. I hope to always remember my little buy excitedly yelling "YET!" when I ask if he wants to go swimming. And saying "come on Gay-Tet!" to get his sister to join him.
Today, William helped me pick cayenne peppers and tomatoes from the garden then ran into the house so excitedly with the basket of vegetables to show Mommy. Mommy and Daddy's little farmer.
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