Kidspeak

"Daddy, Daddy!"

I'm looking at a movie. Max is crawling all over my back looking through the window behind me into the sunroom.

"Daddy, Daddy! Ma Targit!" he pleads, tapping me on the shoulder. I'm watching a movie.

"What did you say?" I asked.

He is two inches from my face, and I'm backing up, and he's moving in: "Ma targit, ma targit!" As though his life was at stake.

"Your what?"

"Ma targit. Ma targit!" He is pointing into the sunroom, which stays locked to keep him out.

"Pleeease?"

"Okay. Show me whatcha talking 'bout."

We get up, and he pulls me into the back room and runs to get the object of his urgency.

The instrument he has been playing with ever since it was iven to him a couple of months ago: His targit. His GUITAR! He switched the syllables! It was so funny that while he was still playing with it, I had to write it down before I forgot.

Is there such a thing as "verbal dyslexia?"