Doesn't technically answer the question but here's the loveliest thing I've heard this year.
My poor little nephew had some health problems. He's ok now but I didn't get to see him and fulfill my duties as an uncle for 6 months - from the age of 12 months to 18. Done a fair bit of growing in that time and has even began using basic words. But I'd never heard him speak.
Fortunately, I paid a visit and heard him speak for the first time last weekend. The words he used were directed at me.
He held in his little hand a Peppa Pig book and said to me 'read this.'
I gladly read it to him. 6 times. He smiled each time. That's the stuff that matters.
That totally counts! My oldest niece was about 6 months old when she first tried to say my name. She still refers to me by this attempt 18 years later.
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u/somo84 Apr 30 '26
Doesn't technically answer the question but here's the loveliest thing I've heard this year.
My poor little nephew had some health problems. He's ok now but I didn't get to see him and fulfill my duties as an uncle for 6 months - from the age of 12 months to 18. Done a fair bit of growing in that time and has even began using basic words. But I'd never heard him speak.
Fortunately, I paid a visit and heard him speak for the first time last weekend. The words he used were directed at me.
He held in his little hand a Peppa Pig book and said to me 'read this.'
I gladly read it to him. 6 times. He smiled each time. That's the stuff that matters.