Hoppergrasses and Scratcherbacks

A few weeks ago Paul and I were doing our Insanity dvd workout and one of the exercises was frog jumps.  Luke started to jump, too, and said "I'm jumping - like a hoppergrass."  We hadn't seen or talked about a grasshopper for over a year, so I was surprised he even remembered what they were.  Close enough, right?  Hoppergrass, grasshopper, what's the difference?

Then yesterday he pointed to something on the top of the fridge and said, "Mom, give me that scratcherback."  (I corrected his sentence, "Did you mean to say, Mom give me that scratcherback, PLEASE?") and then I giggled and told him it is a back scratcher.  He continued to call it a scratcherback as he was giving me instruction on how to use it.

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