Toddlerspeak.
Nov. 15th, 2006 12:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaRiding 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.
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.
