Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for September 04, 2024

Reminds me of a comic I saw ages ago, showing a young woman petting a cat. The caption was “Helen Keller with her dog, Spot”.

It’ll take time!

Snoopy having an identity crisis there?!

Snoopy is kitty, Schroeder hath declared.

Can Schroeder say piano?

When I was a baby, my grandfather (mother’s father) was dying of cancer and living with us. For some reason, he loved me more than my older siblings (I’m the only one who got a gift from him when born). He was still well enough to babysit me one day when my mother took my older siblings to go swimming. He wanted me to say “Mama” before he died. Anyway, he called where Mom was and told her to come home, quick! Since I wasn’t the healthiest baby (I sometimes had seizures), she bundled the other 5 kids & rushed home. He greeted her at the door with a big smile: “SHE SAID ‘MAMA’!” I was sitting there on the floor, saying “Mama! Mama!” Unfortunately, I was pointing at HIM! (He died exactly 1 week before my 1st birthday.)

When my granddaughter was just beginning to talk, there was both a dog and a cat in the house. For some reason, every animal she pointed to was “kitty”. The cat was “kitty”, the dog was “kitty”.

One day at the zoo, she pointed to some birds and said “kitty”.

The birds got real nervous.

AI image training in a nutshell…

Reminds me of our daughter as a toddler. For some reason, she called a spoon a ‘foop’. On one visit to my parents, my father decided to get her to say “spoon”. They sat at the dinner table, where my father told Kathy to say “sp”. Kathy complied; they repeated that about 10 times. Then my father had her say “oon”, and they repeated that about 10 times. At last, my father had her say “spoon”, which she did, again repeating that about 10 times. He then held up a spoon and asked her what it was. Her response? “Foop” He gave up.

Kitty! All kitties!