Conversations with my daughter.

[rivka]

Scene: Nighttime. Rocking chair, soft music, star lights on ceiling, pacifier.

Me: Are you ready to go in your crib?
Alex: No, no!
Me: No?
Alex: drops head down and rests it on my chest. Okay.

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Scene: Coming downstairs in the morning, passing Rivka and Michael's bedroom.

Alex: Papa? Papa?
Me: Papa's in there. He's sleeping.
Alex: fake snoring sound.

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Scene: Highchair, bib, spoon, glass of milk, half-eaten bowl of oatmeal with Winnie-the-Pooh picture on the bottom.

Alex: scrapes oatmeal away from the bottom of the bowl with her spoon. Bear, bear!
Me: Are we almost to the bear picture in your bowl?
Alex: picks up glass of milk, holds it tilted over the bowl, grins at me. Drink?
Me: Oh, you want to give the bear a drink? takes glass away. I think you need to uncover more of the bear first.

(That one might be a literary allusion, because one of the books we have recently been reading until my eyes bleed has a bit about "I can give a drink to my teddy bear," with a picture of the poor bear drenched in water poured from a glass. At any rate, she clearly knew she was being funny, because she didn't pour the milk right in - she waited for my reaction.)

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Scene: Highchair, a bit later.

Alex: Crackers, crackers, crackers, crackers!
Me: Crackers, please? Okay, you can have some crackers. administers a few whole-wheat goldfish crackers.
Alex: eats one cracker, picks the rest up, and holds them out insistently. Away!
Me: Are you all done with your crackers? Really?
Alex: Away, away!
Me: I thought you wanted to eat them.
Alex: brandishes crackers. Away!
Me: Okay, I'll put them away. opens mouth, pops goldfish in. Mmmm.
Alex: holds out hand. Crackers, please.

(Veering off-topic completely, I was looking for a link to explain goldfish crackers to my international readers, and found this.)

Comments

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

fake snoring sound.

HA! Hilarious.

-J

[ex-helygen254.livejournal.com]

The snoring made me laugh out loud.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Fake crying, sneezing, coughing, and yawning are also in her repertoire, but the snoring is probably the cutest. And a good thing, too, because she does it a lot.

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Ah, but is it a comment on sleep in general, or the way Michael sounds when he sleeps? :-)

-J

[dragon3.livejournal.com]

Your daughter is very cute and fairly new. Your posts about her take me back. Enjoy!

Mine is cute in a much larger way and about to head off to second year for classics at King's. On Wednesday I will take her out for a very large steak. She will probably say say some funny, but unprintable things ;-)

[dragon3.livejournal.com]

CPAP?

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Marital loyalty prevents me from giving a full answer to this question. ;-)

But in this case, it's a comment on sleep in general. She's very much into pretending about sleep, these days, and the ritual pattern is to lie down, say "night night," snore for a few seconds, and then lift her head up and say "awake!"

This gets repeated with doll, doggy, little plastic figurines, and even alphabet refrigerator magnets. Everything goes night-night, snores, and wakes up.

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

The baby in my circle of friends is a little over 8 months old now. Her mother was describing what happened when her father was feeding her while he was eating his own stinky cheese. He'd give her a bite of what he was feeding her, she'd grin and open her mouth for more. So he gave her a bite of stinky cheese. She made a variety of nasty faces, spit it out, and then ...

grinned and opened her mouth for more.

Thanks for the Alex stories! I follow them with delight. (www.lafstern.org/alice)

Not quite the same thing...

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Jeff, my younger brother, & I used to have a routine where we'd ask my nephew Charlie about various animal sounds.

"How does the dog go?"
Bark, bark, bark

"How does the cat go?"
Mew, mew, mew

"How do the mice go?"
Points to ceiling (where the mice lived).

And my favourite:
"How does Cthulu goes?"
Sticks fingers in front of mouth & wiggles 'em.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Good lord, what a cutie. Thanks for the pictures.

The current thing that Alex begs for at table is dijon mustard. She has previously eaten an entire lemon wedge. Baby food preferences are completely inexplicable.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

It's so much fun reading about Alex's developing sense of humor - I'm carried back to the days when I lived with my best friend and her son, Sean, from shortly after his birth until he was 2. It was amazing how early he discovered that he could make people laugh, and took huge delight in doing so ... resulting in endless entertainment for the grownups in his life. We got to the point where an evening of watching the baby was more fun than watching TV.

[fourgates.livejournal.com]

There's a critical period around Alex's age that, when asked:
What do you see with? (kid points to eyes)
What do you hear with? (kid points ears)
What do you smell with? (kid points to nose)
What do you think with? -> some kids will point their mouths

[wiredferret.livejournal.com]

I love that link! Yay!

Also, go Alex!

Re: Not quite the same thing...

[kiya]

I wish I could remember where I heard reported the small-child exchange that went:

"What does a zombie say?"
"Bwaaaaaaaaains."

Re: Not quite the same thing...

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Hee! Alex knows what a T. Rex says, but we haven't gotten around to teaching about zombies yet.

[ladyvonkulp.livejournal.com]

Heh, I know that one. Both of my kids will readily eat soap and dirt, so washing their mouths out has no intimidation factor whatsoever.

Kate has eaten half a can of olives at one sitting.

Re: Not quite the same thing...

[ladyvonkulp.livejournal.com]

Paul does a similar routine:

"what do we want?" "Bwaaaaains"
"when do we want them? "Bwaaaaaains"

Re: Not quite the same thing...

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Did you see the SNL sketch that starts out as a basic zombie movie then mutates into Chris Farley as an addicted zombie attending "Brains Anonymous". It is to kill for.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

You have a very nice kid. (I mean, you know that, I just keep getting dumbfounded by the reality.)

What I actually wanted to comment about, though, is that I had /absolutely/ no idea that the set dressers had so much fun with Gail's bowl. Things like that are yet another reason why TWW was one of my favorite shows for awhile. (Also, living as I do with a goldfish owner, I appreciated the disclaimer on the page.)

Re: Not quite the same thing...

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Agent Weasel used to do that. And make Gollum noises.

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's lovely. Have you read "Go! Dog! Go!" with her? So not a bedtime book, but fun.