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My son just turned two years old. We've been using sign language with him since he was nine months, so he hasn't felt any rush to learn speech, but he's building a verbal vocabulary now. He's always been social, though, ever since he could make eye contact with anybody.
Mrs. Shirts and I stopped at Local Grocer on our way home from running some other errands tonight, just to get some fresh fruit. While I was perusing the produce, a Local Grocer employee came out of the stock room and walked down the same aisle. I casually acknowledged him with a smile and went back to looking at fruit.
Little Shirts, sitting in the cart, was bored and wanted some social interaction. Just as the employee was about to pass us, my son shouted, "BOO!"
The employee looked surprised but definitely not scared. He turned and, with a huge grin, responded with a happy "BOO!" of his own. Then he said, "That's funny," and skipped around the corner of the aisle.
When we reached the checkout, the same employee was cleaning one of the registers and collecting go-backs. He saw us coming and said to the cashier, "Watch out for this kid."
Right on cue, Little Shirts says, "BOO!" to the cashier. She played at being startled, and we all laughed at my son's fit of giggles.
On the way out the door, Little Shirts waved and said "Bye! Bye-bye!" to all the employees, and they (the first guy, the cashier, and a cart wrangler) responded in kind. Then Little Shirts turned to me and said, with surprising clarity and diction, "I say, 'boo.' Guys say, 'bye.'" And he giggled again.
I hope he was an effective antidote against any SCs those employees may have had to deal with today. That was fun.
PS: For those of you who enjoy internet memes, Little Shirts tells us he's hungry by the standard ASL signs, but he tells us that he wants to eat a specific food object (like the piece of apple I just handed to him) by saying, "I OMMM! Omm nom nom."
My son just turned two years old. We've been using sign language with him since he was nine months, so he hasn't felt any rush to learn speech, but he's building a verbal vocabulary now. He's always been social, though, ever since he could make eye contact with anybody.
Mrs. Shirts and I stopped at Local Grocer on our way home from running some other errands tonight, just to get some fresh fruit. While I was perusing the produce, a Local Grocer employee came out of the stock room and walked down the same aisle. I casually acknowledged him with a smile and went back to looking at fruit.
Little Shirts, sitting in the cart, was bored and wanted some social interaction. Just as the employee was about to pass us, my son shouted, "BOO!"
The employee looked surprised but definitely not scared. He turned and, with a huge grin, responded with a happy "BOO!" of his own. Then he said, "That's funny," and skipped around the corner of the aisle.
When we reached the checkout, the same employee was cleaning one of the registers and collecting go-backs. He saw us coming and said to the cashier, "Watch out for this kid."
Right on cue, Little Shirts says, "BOO!" to the cashier. She played at being startled, and we all laughed at my son's fit of giggles.
On the way out the door, Little Shirts waved and said "Bye! Bye-bye!" to all the employees, and they (the first guy, the cashier, and a cart wrangler) responded in kind. Then Little Shirts turned to me and said, with surprising clarity and diction, "I say, 'boo.' Guys say, 'bye.'" And he giggled again.
I hope he was an effective antidote against any SCs those employees may have had to deal with today. That was fun.
PS: For those of you who enjoy internet memes, Little Shirts tells us he's hungry by the standard ASL signs, but he tells us that he wants to eat a specific food object (like the piece of apple I just handed to him) by saying, "I OMMM! Omm nom nom."
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