Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for April 27, 2024

Baby Hammie’s favorite toy?

My daughter’s first word was “Manda”, our dog’s name.

But do you know?

We are all molded by our generation I guess!

I don’t remember my girls first word. I’ll have to look them up in their baby books.

TikTok is an example of ablaut reduplication.

My first word was no!

When I was a baby my grandfather – my mother’s father – lived with us. He had cancer. He wanted more than anything to hear me say “Mama” before he died. One day he was watching me while my mom took the older kids swimming at my grandmother’s house. He called: “Therese…come home quick!” I wasn’t the healthiest baby so Mom thought something was wrong. She bundled the kids & raced home. He met her at the door with a brilliant smile: “SHE SAID ‘MAMA’!” I was sitting on the floor pointing up at HIM, saying, “Mama!” (He died one week before my first birthday. It was understood in the family that I was his favorite grandchild.)

???

I thought Wren’s first word was Da-Da.

Ask Alexa. She (?) knows more about you than you do.

What, they had a wind -up clock in Wren’s room?

My mother told me I used to hum before saying any words. That was the noise that our refrigerator made.

Hammies first words were “buh-dozer” and "bazooka. Close Wanda, close but no cigar.

Dada is most babies’ first word because it’s easy for them to form the sounds.

My brother’s first word was “Stopthat!”

How would a not even one year old know about TikTok? Also, she grew all of her hairs and we had seen her say words years before TikTok was a thing.

I imagine Hammie saying “Furby!”

Zoe’s first full sentence was probably “I’m gonna tell.”

There’s a strip from before Tiktok (before Wren even had hair) where she said “cookie”

I can’t say I read from the beginning, but when I first read this strip, Zoe was a baby and the only child. Our local paper stopped carrying for a long time and the internet wasn’t really a thing yet. When it finally came back a few years ago, Zoe is in school and has 2 siblings.

Wren was born in 2002. TikTok wasn’t even a thing in 2002.

Who’s fault is that?

I remember when Hammie got Barbie doll and he treated it as a bulldozer.

(Barbie can be all things to all people. She is THAT versatile.)

no teeth again!

My first daughters word was dodo, my mothers name was Doris.

BUH-DOZER

Zoe’s first word was Da-da, much to Wanda’s dismay. It took a long time to get her to say Ma-ma—and at first she would only say it if her finger was up her nose!