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A few days ago uncle Pete killed a little snake when mowing our lawn.  He told Luke about it and Luke wanted to see it.

"Pete, show me the nake in the hoods."

That is, show me the snake in the woods.


After some more thought, I determined he can say his 'S's like sun or softball because they don't have a second consonant after them.  When they do - such as words that start with an St, Sn, Sl, Sp, or Sk - he has a hard time pronouncing the S.  Nothing concerning...a friend of mine who is a speech pathologist said they get concerned when kids can't pronounce their S's at age 5.  Mostly, it's just cute and enjoyable for us to figure out what he is trying to say.

Sn words:
Snake = nake
Snuggle = nuggle

St words:
Stay = day
Stickers = dickers

Sk (and Squ) words:
Skiing = geeing
Skating = gating
Mosquito = 'gito

Sl words:
Slippers = frippers

Sp words:
Spikes = bikes
Spill = bill

Sm words:
Smell = mell
Here he is on Mother's day with a hat that Grandma Marcy found in the attic.  It matches his orange mustache from his orange pop. :)

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