{"id":1044,"date":"2012-04-12T19:47:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T23:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2012-04-16T22:32:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T02:32:44","slug":"my-son-and-i-are-on-a-first-name-basis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/my-son-and-i-are-on-a-first-name-basis\/","title":{"rendered":"My son and I are on a first name basis"},"content":{"rendered":"
At our home, I speak Hebrew to our son and my husband speaks English.\u00a0 So when we were deciding what we wanted him to call us, naturally John wanted to be called Dad or Da-da and I wanted to be called Ima (mom in Hebrew).\u00a0 When Kyle was born, we repeatedly told him who we were. Me, Ima and John, Da-da.\u00a0 Of course, it wasn’t until Kyle was over a year before he said any real words.<\/div>\n
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I don’t want to brag, but Kyle’s first word was Ma-ma.\u00a0 Not exactly Ima, but he actually meant me when he said it (not his favourite toy or stuffed animal, but me, really!).\u00a0 His second and third words were Ball and Goal, respectively.\u00a0 About a month ago Kyle started calling me by my first name.\u00a0 It wasn’t just a simple Maya but usually, it was a very demanding, loud cry for help that sounded like MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYA!!\u00a0 And from then on, it was “Maya, Maya… Maya,…Maya, Maya, Maya…Maya!” \"\"<\/a><\/div>\n
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Even though he never called me Ima, I still prefered Ma-Ma over Maya.\u00a0 I also didn’t know where he learned this from.\u00a0 John doesn’t really call me by my first name, so it didn’t make sense.\u00a0 I thought maybe he’s saying Ima backwards… it’s sort of like Maya, maybe, no?!?! It wasn’t until a few weeks later, when I was at my parents house, that I heard my dad call my name, and it sounded a lot like the way Kyle says it.\u00a0 And there it was, my son picked up my first name from my dad and he wouldn’t let it go.\u00a0 It was his new favourite word.\u00a0 It reminded me a lot of a family guy show:<\/div>\n