He and Eleanor are super tight and he is always playing her favorite peek-a-boo game with her, popping his head around corners "Hewwo!" or from under a blanket "Hewwo!" (don't get the wrong idea here, he isn't talking baby talk just to Eleanor who is a baby...it is all the time. I absolutely forbade him to speak it to his teacher, but who knows).
Just this morning however, my less than verbal Eleanor popped up over the side of our bed cooing "hewwo!" in her adorable baby voice again and again. It actually was adorable, not infuriating, coming from her but at the same time very frustrating. It would be one thing if she was saying hewwo because 'l' is a difficult sound but deep down inside, Tim and I both know she is is saying "hewwo" because she honestly thinks that is the word.
I guess I should just be grateful that baby talk is the only bad example James has ever set and her picking it up from him is indicative of the amount of time he spends playing with her. I am going to think of it that way rather than the my baby is picking up baby talk from my 6 year old way and perhaps that will stave off my impending insanity.
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Lincoln went through that.... only not as bad. He would say, "me" instead of "I" for everything. It was super annoying. We started putting him in time-out for it and he snapped out of it. (he hates time-out)
Jonas did it too, but eventually quit as well. Just keep up the negative reinforcement. :) And to make you feel better about Eleanor, I just checked with Max (who turns 4 next month):
Me: Max, say "hello".
Max: Hewwo.
He still can't make L or J sounds.
Oh, I know she can't say the 'l' sound, but I also think that she honestly thinks hewwo is the word rather than her clumsy attempt at saying hello.
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