Easy As A,B,C or Maybe That's S,O,B

We're having a great time in New York city vacationing with the twins. So many stories to tell and so many things and cute sayings that are happening on a daily basis, I only wish I carried around a little notepad with me to jot each and every detail down on paper instead of having to commit to memory what happens these days. For example, just the other evening, as our family was just hanging out in our hotel room, Taylor was fluttering about the room singing a random song, one which we've never heard before and it went a little something like this:

I...AM...A...
S...O....B...

Yep, that's right. A singy-songy tune in her sweet little soprano voice bellowing out "I...am...a...S.O.B."

And, as she sang, repeating the same phrase over a couple of times, Mike and I just looked at each other and started laughing. Here was Taylor, singing a song, and putting together letters indiscriminately which just so happened to spell out a very funny (yet also colorful) expression indeed, all the while completely unbeknownst to her what those little letters, in that exact order, actually spelled out.

Perhaps, it's the many nights of reading those Dr. Seuss books to my twins, in which something quite amazing happens -- the various speech and language skills our little 3-year old Taylor is hearing as we read is then allowing her to recreate her own sounds and creative rhymes, just like the ones she's heard in her Dr. Seuss books -- and they’re as easy as A, B, C, or as in Taylor's version the other evening, as easy as S. O. B.

Oh, the things you can think of when you’re only 3! And, oh, the ways that a toddler's vocabulary and speech grows and expands. I really wish I'd had a videocamera at the ready the other evening to record Taylor's singing of a song which she had no idea what she was saying, but to her parents had a most funny connotation to it!!!