learning names and plurals

mosey, if you are reading this someday, know that i am so proud of you, and i'm impressed by you every day.

these past few weeks, i've been noticing how he learns people's names. i can see how he's been practicing his skill, because:

• we taught him to call my dad "harabuhjee" but he calls him "ah-bbah" pretty regularly because that's what i call him
• we taught him to call shane's sister "aunt ree ree" but he calls her "keri," well, because that's her name
• he calls shane and ed by name when he's telling us something like, "there's ed," but when he talks to them, he addresses them as daddy and grandpa
• i think i mentioned that he calls me "honey" and "sweetheart" from time to time (copying daddy), but he called me "helen" for the first time ever the other day, and it was so cute. 
• people generally don't call nana any other name but nana or mom, so i imagine he might not learn "linda" as one of her names. 

pluralization. most of the time, he does it right, but you know, there are some hard ones like ocean (which is so big that it seems like we really should be saying, "look at the oceans") and fish (especially when there are such enormous tanks full of them at the aquarium). oh, and corns. :)

lovelove,
mummy