Tyler likes to play a game I taught him. He asks you to give him "High Five" then a "Down Low" but he pulls his hand away before you can slap him five, saying "Too slow!" He thinks this is hilarious and would prefer to play it all day long. Never one to tire of games, I'm pretty good at complying. We take turns; sometimes I'm too slow, sometimes I'm telling him he's too slow. It cracks him up just the same. For a little variety, I'll throw some emotion into our game. When he tells me I'm too slow, I reply "Awww shucks," snapping my fingers with disappointment. Which brings me to his (and probably every human's) ability to tie words with emotion. He doesn't know what shucks means, he just knows it is used to describe a feeling. The other day while waiting for him to fall asleep for his nap, I was trying to hold perfectly still as he began fighting off the sense of sleep. He arose from his bed saying "Shucks. Jesus. Fricking." Wow, those three are all different words that he's heard at different times but he classified them all together. See, he could have said dog, happy, baby, or any of the other hundreds of words he knows. But he clearly classifies these words together, even though he's not heard them all used together. Brilliant linguistics. I know my days are numbered for these being the worst words he's saying.