Pronunciation

Josh said to me today that he is going to be really sad when Ella stops saying "fink" for "think" (which she says about a hundred times a day right now.  You ask her a question, she cocks her head to the side, and she says "I fi-ink ....").  It got me thinking about all the great toddler words she had and how much I miss them as they give way to more grown-up pronunciations of things.  I already miss...

That nilp has been replaced by milk.

Banilla has been replaced by vanilla.

Drjel has been replaced by dreidel.

Poo-poo has been replaced by purple.

Mundle has been replaced by middle.

And quite possibly my favorite, orneo, has been replaced by orange.  Oh, how I loved orneo.

Fortunately, she still says hospible for hospital and the ever present fink.  I'm not ready to lose all the baby words quite yet.