Tourettes????
For sometime now Teä has been repeating the last letter of the last word she speaks. For example: I want breakfast t t t t t, Mommy's s s s, that's Teä's s s s s, Daddy's s s s s. You get the point (and if you don't, that's sad...just kidding or for those who can't give up the the 90's, sike). Anyway, I was thinking it was a slight case of Tourette's, however, Greg thinks it's her sounding things out in response to how we sound them out to her--she just doesn't do it right. Who knows, I just hope that if it is Tourette's, she'll have the kind that force her to use profanity at all the wrong moments. I think that would make for a much more interesting Sacrament meeting :) (Not that ours aren't interesting now--just in case the Bishop's wife is reading this, although I have a feeling she would admit that herself, she's cool like that!--it would just liven it up a bit)
EDIT: Greg and I discovered, at further investigation, that she only does it when the word ends in a consonant. The most common ones she does this with is k, s, t, and n. Amber if you read this, do you have any clue what it is? I should record it so you can get the feel for it better.
5 comments:
That's hilarious! Although I hope she doesn't have tourettes, it would be way funny to see her yell out in church or a busy, crowded place:)
Ha that's funny. Most kids either stutter at the beginning of a word or phrase or leave off the final consonant completely. I'll have to look through some of my books and see if I can find anything about that. I would love to hear a recording.
Huh, that is strange, but cute! Jonas has definite speech problems, he knows how to make all the sounds but gets mixed up when words begin and end with a consonant (like fish is "shish", blanket is "ganket"). Maybe Tea just likes the sounds?
Tea wouldn't be the first to liven things up. You missed dear Joyce who would break out into song during testimony meeting on her way up to bear her testimony. Invited a man to sing back up once. My favorite was James, Tina's son. Severely disabled, mentally and physically, he would make singing noises throughout the meeting. It felt at home to hear him and so quiet when one visited another ward. Our whole family, and the whole ward really, missed his singing when he was gone.
Wait! I said something to Mike and he reminded me of his cousin who shouted, "SOB" when she dropped something. She was about four.
The best was Mike's brother but this comment is waaaaaay too long already. Ask me sometime!
Ha ha ha, you should record it so we can hear. She probably is just sounding things out, but wouldn't that make church fun if she were to yell a few profanities!
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