{"id":7725,"date":"2013-05-20T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=7725"},"modified":"2013-05-21T19:10:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T23:10:10","slug":"liviaspeak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=7725","title":{"rendered":"Liviaspeak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Livia,<\/p>\n<p>You have an amazing vocabulary. Seriously, you amaze me with the number of words you know, and even with the number of words you can say. It&#8217;s too bad, though, that your pronunciation can&#8217;t keep up with your vocab. You&#8217;re only two, so it&#8217;s really not your fault! But it is difficult for all of us when we can&#8217;t understand you, and it happens often. Part of the problem is that you use the H sound to represent at least five different sounds: Ch, H, K, P, and T. Sometimes when you say an incomprehensible word, I find myself running through the alphabet, trying to guess which letter you really mean. It&#8217;s frustrating for all of us. But don&#8217;t worry, Noodle. It won&#8217;t last forever.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we&#8217;ve deciphered some of your special language. Here is a sample.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dada = Marshall<\/li>\n<li>Daddy = Daddy<\/li>\n<li>didi = diaper, or baby<\/li>\n<li>dig boom = big spoon (you don&#8217;t like kiddie spoons, so you ask for dig booms)<\/li>\n<li>dit you wap = sit in your lap<\/li>\n<li>dunnies = undies, or bunnies<\/li>\n<li>dye = bye<\/li>\n<li>hapstih = Chapstick<\/li>\n<li>ho = pillow<\/li>\n<li>hot ga = hot dog<\/li>\n<li>hotty = potty<\/li>\n<li>howl = towel<\/li>\n<li>hoy = toy<\/li>\n<li>hurn lie on = turn the light on<\/li>\n<li>ohay = okay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Mom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Livia, You have an amazing vocabulary. Seriously, you amaze me with the number of words you know, and even with the number of words you can say. It&#8217;s too bad, though, that your pronunciation can&#8217;t keep up with your &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=7725\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[348],"tags":[369,465],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7725"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7802,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions\/7802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}