Hanging on the telephone

Ring ring ring goes the telephone- I see from the display on my work phone its home so I pick it up, wondering what disaster has befallen the family.

"M'laddo is trying to eat his sisters feet."

Not the most likely opening line of a conversation I'll admit. Normally I'd expect a "hello" or something similar.

"Would you like to talk to him?"

Well, I suppose I should really shouldn't I?

"Hello M'laddo, Dadda here. Are you eating your sisters feet?"

"Yeah"

"Do you think you could not do that? She might need her feet later in life."

"Yeah"

"Okay have a nice day. Can I speak to Mummy please?"

"Yeah"

And then it occurred to me, he was actually attempting to say "yes" instead of "la". This is a major step forward in his language development, I just hope all future developments don't come at the price of cannibalism.