Three Year Old Speak

I feel like we are going to start losing some of his fun pronounciations so I wanted to take note. He's already started to make corrections on a few of these but we've been trying to remember these:

Forehead = floorhead
Suitcase = zootcase
Yellow = lello
Backpack = backack
Three = fwee
Firetruck = fiwatwuck
Girl = goyl
William = Willyoung (people sometimes think that this is his name)
Seven-thirty = seven-forty
Something = somethin'
Jaguar = jagwatoo
Water = watoo
Armadillo = amadiyoo
Hospital = hostable
Squirrel = squail
Friends = fwens
Tree = twee
Garbage truck = gowbage twuck
Thank you = fank you
Play Structure = play stwucture
Train = twain
Supposed = opposed


Negotiating Tactics (When you tell him something that you would prefer to be done differently or that you don't want to be done at all he'll think for a minute and then say things such as):

"Hey, I have an idea.... (then he proceeds to tell you the way he was doing it before)"
"Well, I actually think I know better than you so...."
"No, I don't want to do that."
"How about if I just keep doing this.... (then proceeds to do what you don't want him to do)"
"Alright, I won't do it... (then he proceeds to S L O W L Y do the thing you just asked him not to do)"
"But that person is doing it... (then proceeds to point out someone somewhere who is doing the very thing that we asked him not to do)."

Downright Trickery (When you set a limit with him and he uses it against you later):
We tell him that he needs to brush teeth in the bathroom for fear that toothpaste will get in places we don't want it to. We also will tell him that he needs to eat in the kitchen at the table only. Then later, when he is supposed to be sleeping he'll come out for a "drink of water" and proceed to drink it ever so slowly in the kitchen. When he is asked to go back to bed he'll say, "You are supposed to drink only in the kitchen."

For the longest time whenever you asked him, "Why did you do that?" he would say, "Because I just did." Only recently he started saying to me, "Why do you always say that?"

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