There's an episode of Friends where Phoebe tells Rachel that her dad just called and left her a message to call her back. Rachel asks where she should call him back and Phoebe replies "Flimby's". Rachel then says "what's Flimby's" and Phoebe responds "It's what I say when I can't remember the real thing."
Gavin has adopted a similar fall-back phrase to use, but instead of Flimby's it's "Im boyda". That's right, Im boyda. It goes a little something like this:
Me: Hey, Gavin! What's the name of the person in the picture that I'm pointing to. (Pointing to Elmo)
Gavin: Uh...Im boyda!
OR
Matthew: Hey Gavin, can you tell me the name of one of your friends from church?
Gavin: Im boyda!
We're quite impressed with his new catch-all phrase and he uses it pretty consistently. Don't get me wrong- he says LOTS of things. The kids has really started talking especially over the last month! He's got quite the budding vocabulary and doesn't just repeat things we ask him to, but volunteers information and can answer questions appropriately. And most of the things that we're asking him, he has told us the right answer to before, but for some reason "Im boyda" seems to be the best answer at the time. And you know what?
It works!
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