"Itchiwawa"

The boys are home for the summer now, and while in a time out, Braden heard our 2 dogs barking like crazy. He asked if he could go check on them, so I let him. We discovered that there were a few dogs in the neighbors back yard on the other side of the fence. Our dogs were trying to dig holes to get under the fence. So, we took Daddy's suggestion, and locked them out of their little fenced dog area and let them into the larger part of the yard. In order to do that, We had to open the 2 crawl space doors (1 is on their side of their dog fence, and 1 is on the other side). The boys got a kick out of that. The dogs came right through, just like we planned. As Rhett was walking back out of the dog's yard, he said, "Mamma, that dog over there on the other side of the fence is a Itchiwawa." I started laughing so hard I almost couldn't ask him to repeat himself. I finally did, and he said it again, exactly the same way! Braden caught on this time and he started lauging and he said, "Did he say Itchiwawa?" I said, "Yep, but let's not say anything because that was really cute." We all 3 just smiled and walked back into the house.
Yet another day that I realize how fast the boys are growing up. All the cute things they used to say, are no more. They talk fine now and can say anything. So, I was fine and dandy with not correcting him on the type of dog. He'll learn soon enough. Thank goodness we still have Gracie, who's just learning to talk. Today, she said "Water". A new word in her vocabulary! Yeah!