Owen's stories
Owen converses with his grandma and George, a visitor from China.Owen: My mom is a vegetarian, but she eats meat.
Grandma: Fish.
Owen: My dad is a vegetarian, and he doesn't eat any meat. And George, I'm an omnivore."
George: Does that mean you eat everything?
Owen: Yes.
George: (to my mom) How do you spell that?"
Owen: O-M-N-A-V-O-R... (so not QUITE right, but passable for a four-year-old
Grandma: And it has a silent letter...
Owen: E! George, that's because it used to be pronounced Omnivorey."
posted by Kiara at
9:03 PM
1 Comments:
Wow! When my son was four, he couldn't identify the letters in his own name, much less come that close to a word like omnivore. Of course, it didn't help that we named him Christopher!
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