"Never Give Up"

My son LOVES Dora and goes around the house chanting one of her phrases "Never Give Up."  It's really cute to hear him say it.  He's been developing this new skill to be able to replace words with others in his vocabulary.  So when he learned the song "My flag, my flag" for Independence Day, he went around the house singing the tune but changing the words to "My blanky, my blanky" or "My slide, my slide." 

The other night, I was laying down next to him reading him a book.  After the book, I started to get up.  He put his arm around me so I couldn't get up and started chanting "Never Get Up, Never Get up."  It cracked me up.  Last night, way past his bedtime, he tried getting up and I told him if I had to get up and put him back to bed I was going to shut the door.  He again started chanting "Never Get Up, Never Get Up" as he went running down the hall back to bed.  I just think he's so clever for using this phrase but changing it to meet different situations.

Then I realized something this morning.  I can hear the subtle change between "never give up" to "never get up."  That's not something I would have caught before.  I would have thought the whole time he was chanting "never give up."  I would have missed his developing skill set!  Sweet!