Cientifico

Ever since Uncle Alu told him he was a scientist, Evan has given up plans to be a "cooker". So when they made paper bibs at school and his friends picked astronaut and fireman and teacher, he stayed with cientifico. And proudly showed us the zipper and the test tube ad flask in the pockets. 

Since Evan figured out, more or less by himself, that different things all fall at the same minus the effects of air resistance, he thinks of himself as some sort of a scientific pioneer. So, often he asks a question like "Daddy - I wonder what the inside of trees look like?" and then follows it up with "Am I the first one to ask that question?"

Evan is inevitably rushing towards grow-up-ness. As the last bits of his funny talk start to vanish, I feel there is a pressing need to re-document it. Three years and a couple of continents away he left several people speaking Evan. They would only say "Foo" if they were hungry. Or "Dow" if they say a dog. Cow was given the prestige of extra syllables "cow-uu". If you more really hungry, you might say "Mo foo". Then came the first multi-syllabic words - "aw-sage" for sausage and "chokit". The only ones deemed important enough for the effort.

Later, he would add an extra "M' " in front of arbitrarily selected words, or replace the first sound with an "M" as if he were west african. The only remaining one still in frequent use is memember. As in "Do you memember that time when I got a snow cone for my birthday?" And he still calls one of his less favorite veggies saparagus. And his favorite gelato place in town is P' Teo's.