Oh Bad Ocean!

This evening DominicsMom was preparing Jocelyn for bed. As she was doing this, Joss looked through a picture book, making comments the whole time. As DominicsMom was finishing, Joss turned to a page that had a beach scene with the ocean in the background. Joss pointed out a few items, "Boat", "Fish", etc.

DominicsMom turned away for a moment and then she heard Jocelyn say, "Oh Sh!t"

DominicsMom immediately snapped her head around and regard Joss in astonishment. "What did you say?"

Joss pointed to the water and said again, "Oh Sh!t"

"Did you say ocean?"

"Yes" Jocelyn replied.

"Say ocean..."

"Oh Sh!t"

At that point she called me in so that I could witness this pronunciative feat.

I guess we aren't going to the beach any time soon!

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This story reminds me of the time we took Dominic to the zoo. He was about Jocelyn's age now and he also had problems pronouncing certain sounds. We stopped in front of a small cage, whereupon Dominic pointed to the animal and yelled, "Fox! Fox!"

Only it didn't sound like 'fox'.

We left that corner pretty quickly...

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