wingman has some r trouble...well, if we lived in new england he'd be taken for a native...but since we live in the pacific northwest it's some "r trouble"...in fact, i try to get him to use the phrase, wicked smaht, but he won't do it...sigh...i have so little pleasure in my life...
anyway, it used to be all r's...like all his r's would come out as a w sound...especially so with words that started with r...
it's waining outside...that's not the wight one, i want the wed one...
now, those "want to be w's" are shaping more often than not into proper r's...and his trouble now lies in the endings that require an r sound...
the kitten's name is otha...(arthur)
the hat is on the flooh of the cah...(floor, car)
at first i was concerned and really was thinking of speech therapy as a future consideration...but as he grows it's getting WAY better...
we are consistent but casual about asking him to repeat things properly and i show him how my mouth and tongue move when i create my r's...guerrilla speech therapy, i know, but it's what i got...
and not five minutes ago without even thinking about it he said (drumroll please!) SHORTS!...not shahts BUT shorts!!!!!
it's the little things...
and in other news the kittens continue to be CUTE!...much to my continued dismay as i thought i had them all fostered out!!!...it turns out the person slated for chico's pair is backing out!!...and they are tooooooo cuuuuuuuttttteeee to remain living here without a forever home waiting for them...having them around, essentially homeless, is like taking a trip for two when you are ovulating...bad idea...too many variables...
and to top it off, both chico and the man are taking turns being in heat...yeah...the man was first and got out!!!...she didn't come back for about 6 hours and we finally found her at the bottom garden entertaining the tom from a few acres over!!!...CRAP!
i know it's her hormones and she can't control it but SHIT! it was no better than finding her in the backseat of a chevy!!!
we scooped her up, brought her in, and as a result as the weather warms up we've got every freakin' door and window shut up tight for about the next 5-6 weeks until we can get them fixed!!!...
now chico's in heat and man is she annnnooooyyyyiiiiinnnngggg!...seriously. annoying.
i know she can't help it but COME ON!!!!...the pitch of a cat in heat should be piped through prisons during riots, or for crowd dispersals, or anywhere else where you want to drive people so nuts they cannot complete a thought, much less an action, and will do anything you say just to make. it. stop.
so here we are, work from home, school from home, everyone home together with two horny cats stuck inside and a passel of just on the verge of mischievous kittens...
i am NOT saying having a baby would have been easier, i am just saying no one got off easy with this substitution...
except maybe the tom from two acres away who only has to sit in the yard and wait for one of us to slip up and leave the door open...
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