Toddlerspeak.

[rivka]

Riding in the car: "Oooo-OOOO-oooo-OOOO-oooo. Fire truck noise."

Apropos of absolutely nothing: "Hmmmm... hmmmm... Yes! No! Yes! No! Yes!"

Again apropos of nothing, while she's supposed to be sleeping: "Numbers! Numbers! One two three four five!"

Designating a small, medium, and large triangle, respectively: "Little triangle, Alex a triangle, Mama triangle."

Demonstrating a certain lack of facility with counting: "Mama's nipples - one, two, three!"

Me: Time to go to sleep now, Alex.
Alex: Helicopter sleep?
Me: Yes.
Alex: Plane sleep?
Me: Yes, planes are asleep too.
Alex: fake snoring noise.

Alex: handing me the last third of her banana raisin muffin. Away. 'Nother one?
Me: No, you still have some. Eat the one you have, and you can have another one.
Alex: No, away! pointing at plate of muffins. Couple of bites?
Me: Eat this one first.
Alex: Muffin PLEASE.
Me: It's the same as the ones on the plate.
Alex: All done.

She has also coined the words "Mamacopter" and "Mamatruck." We don't know how they differ from the ordinary kind of helicopter and truck, but surely there must be something obvious that we're missing.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

That makes me ovulate RIGHT NOW (in ways that, oddly enough, reflux stories never did).

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

>She has also coined the words "Mamacopter" and "Mamatruck." We don't know
>how they differ from the ordinary kind of helicopter and truck, but surely
>there must be something obvious that we're missing.

From a different dialect of toddlerspeak, about 5 years ago.
Adrian: "Can you see the little yellow and black bird, over there?"
Toddler: "Oooo! Little bird!" Startled finch flies away. Puzzled toddler tries to turn around in the stroller. "Where mommy bird?"

So if there are little trucks and little helicopters, the big ones are obviously Mamacopter and Mamatruck. A 6-year-old tried to teach me the basics of gender essentialism yesterday, and I am still too freaked out to try to speculate about Papatruck.

>Again apropos of nothing, while she's supposed to be sleeping: "Numbers! Numbers! One two three four five!"

Are you going to tell her about the custom of counting sheep? She seems to be doing so well without it.

[norah.livejournal.com]

You make me look forward to toddlerhood with these updates, really you do. Verbal development! Independent expression! Undeniably frustrating at times but so incredibly wow.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

yeah, meeee tooo. makes a person want a kneebiter.

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

Very cute. I'm intimately familiar with that last bit about the muffin. We hear stuff like that all the time.

[going-not-gone.livejournal.com]

That's easy! Mamacopters and Mamatrucks are the ones with three nipples!

For a while when mine were younger, there was a stage where if there were two of anything, one was the mommy and one was the daddy. Coffee cups, salt & pepper shakers, anything that came in pairs was presumed to be a couple, and all couples were parents.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I know that male trucks have different apparatus.

Sarah does fake snoring, as a way of mocking Daddy, who falls asleep waiting for Sarah to go to sleep. I know this because she wakes me up and criticizes me for it.