A way with words

My five year old has been in speech therapy since he was three and a half years old. He has come a loooooooooong way in that time.

Since he could talk, and by that I mean, since the time I could understand his mangled words, he has had a vocabulary beyond what is normal for his age. His speech therapist, Shelly, thinks that is partly why he has had so much trouble getting his sounds to come out right.

I was talking with Shelly and she was laughing, "Did I ever tell you what he came up with when I asked him to use an 'L' sound in a sentence?" No, she hadn't and I was more than curious. She explained that normally she would never ask a preschooler to come up with a use for a sound, and especially in a sentence. At that age therapy is about getting them to listen and then repeat what they hear. But knowing he has this wild stash of words in his brain, she put him to it.

And just what did my boy say?

First, he overemphasized the 'L' sound in the word of his choice, that he dug from somewhere out of his brain. "LLLLLog"

Shelly waited patiently.

The words were building up in his brain, and suddenly the dam broke and out flew...

"When Mommy cut the head off the chicken it went (he put his hands around his neck and stretched his head out as far as he could) BAAAWWWWKK!!! and it's head rolled right off the Log!"

Yeah, that's my boy.