Jiro-isms

When Jiro gets mad, he says, "I hate you, Mommy." When he gets really mad he says, "I hate everyone in my whole family." When he gets really, really mad he says, "I hate everyone in the whole world...except Santa Claus."

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Jiro is learning to read/spell and is at that stage where he says things like, "I know how to spell fox, f-o-x!" Today, while we were on a hike in the Old Forest, he ran up to me and said, "I know how to spell DS." (Yes, as in Nintendo DS.) I said, "How?" He said, "D. Uh...er...I forgot."

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Jiro is still learning his "f" sound in speech. Usually he will get a word like foot and is instructed to make the "ff" sound first, then make the rest of the word. So foot would be f-oot. Fence=f-ence. Fan=f-an.

His teacher gave him a sheet with pictures on it to practice with. The handouts that the city schools use are so out of date and drawn so weird, very often it is hard for even me to tell what the picture is depicting.

There was a picture of a camera with a roll of film next to it. The teacher pointed at the film, which was unspooling a bit, and asked "What is this?" Jiro looked at it and said matter-of-factly, "f-toilet paper."