Posted on 13 August 2014 by: Mama
Just call me “momu”
I teared up today when Mabel brought me one of her portraits. She’s been doing this, of course, for nearly 2 1/2 years. She’s always loved to draw, especially people. Recently, she discovered envelopes and scotch tape…easy to see where this is going. She’s been writing names with our help for a long time, and mailing addresses to grandma and grandpa, etc. But, today…TODAY! She wrote a name all by herself, and it was RIGHT. She wrote “momu.” Which, *obviously* is “mama.”
We taught Mabel to learn her sounds phonetically. So, to Mabel, it is m (monster), o (octopus), m (monster), u (umbrella). Phonetically? She wrote mama. I’ve never been so happy. And I’ve officially changed my name. Only in writing terms, of course. Because, really…the spelling of “mama” really doesn’t make any sense. It took a 4 year old to prove that “momu” makes phonetic sense.