Cooper's pronunciation of "doggy" is very variable. Sometimes he hits the nail on the head, which startles our friends. "Doggie!" he'll say, confidently, and more than one of our friends have replied with "Wow!"
More often he has trouble with the G sound. He replaces it with a number of other noises. Sometimes he swallows the sound, and ends up saying "dah-(gulp)-nee." His most common mispronunciation is "dab-nee." He's good at making a B sound, and he likes saying "nee," so I think he says dab-nee not because he thinks that is what he wants to say, but because it is easy for him.
A common scene in our house goes like this-
Cooper crawls over to the dog, who is lying in front of the heater. He starts hitting the dog's back with an open hand (this is his attempt to pet the dog) and shouts Dabney! Dabney! Dabney! over and over again as he hits the dog. Lucky, to his credit, tolerates this for a while. Then, Cooper gets so excited that he tries to climb up onto the dog's back. Lucky doesn't really like this, so he gets up. Cooper gets knocked over and starts whimpering. Lucky licks his face and head while Cooper attempts to fend off the large stinky dog tongue that is attacking him by hiding his face in his shoulder. Lucky loses interest and wanders off. Cooper tries to crawl after him, saying Dabney! the whole time. Lucky moves out of sight. Cooper gets distracted by a fallen dishcloth and starts saying buh, buh, buh.
I told Matt today that we need one of those little jars and wands for making bubbles. Cooper says both buh and bub, so I think we could have a lot of fun teaching him to say bubbles. Or at least trying to.
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Eleanor loves "bubbo"s. You should definitely keep a set in the kitchen, but remember that it makes the floor slippery, so it's a Limited Time Only event. Also, when he gets older, he'll know what the bubble container looks like, and he'll whine for it, so keep it in a cabinet out of sight.
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