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She Said…

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Brooke was spelling “words” with her bath letters.  She had the following string of letters:

When she added the flower at the top, she looked back at her “word” and said, “Look, Mom!  It says ‘Walmart!'”

She’s kind of right:

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Brooke had been wrestling with Dallas.  When I saw her, her cheeks were rosy.

Me:  “Brooke!  You look flushed!”

Brooke (immediately indignant):  “I’m not flushed!  What do you mean?  I’m in a potty?”

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Brooke and I were looking at a picture of a girl standing in an intersection.  She had four paths she could choose to walk down.

Brooke:  “She can go this way and there’s tigers!  She can go this way and there’s elephants!  She can go this way and there’s zebras!”

A pause.  I am impressed that so far she’s thought of three jungle animals and wonder if she can think of a fourth.

Finally –

Brooke:  “And she can go this way and there’s Cheetos!”

She Said…

, 4

At dinner one evening.

Caroline:  “Brooke!”

Brooke:  “Huh?  How does she know my name?”

***

Brooke and I are in a public restroom.  She hands me her coat so she can go to the bathroom.

Brooke:  “Here, Mom.  Hold my bat wings.”

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Me (after eating a large lunch):  “Oh.  I’m stuffed!”

Brooke:  “But how are you stuffed?  Are you a bear?”

More Baby Talk

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Brooke has two sentences that she routinely says that make me smile every time I hear them.

#1:  “Because I do that.”

Example:

Me:  “Brooke, why are your panties wet?”

Brooke: “Because I do that.”

Yes.  Yes you do.  Please STOP doing that.

#2:  “I don’t have no ideas!”

Example:  I find Caroline crying.  The toy that I have just seen her playing with is now in Brooke’s hand.

Me:  “Why is Caroline sad?”

Brooke:  “I don’t have no ideas!”  I’m sure you don’t.

Another example:  I had walked into the girls’ room in the morning.  Caroline was covered in what I thought was poop, but ended up being vomit.

Me:  “Woah!  What happened?”

Brooke (very seriously): “I don’t have no ideas!”

Growing Vocabulary

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It appears Caroline has a new favorite word – one to replace “woof”.

What’s the word we now hear with great frequency?  “Mine!”

I wonder how she learned this word.  Surely not from her older sister saying this word to her approximately one hundred times a day.

Lest you think Caroline is simply parroting this new word and that it holds no meaning to her as of yet, I’ll leave you with this story.

Caroline was lying on the bed next to Dallas.  She had her pacifier in her mouth.  She pulled her paci out, put it behind her back, looked Dallas squarely in the eyes and cried, “MINE!”

First Words

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Caroline’s favorite word to say is “Woof!”  She says it all the time.  Sometimes the word is warranted, like when we actually see a dog.  Other times it’s a little more mysterious as to why she is woofing.  For example, she’ll be quietly playing with a toy in her room.  All of a sudden, her hand will urgently shoot to her mouth, rip her pacifier out, and she’ll give an enthusiastic “Woof!”  Then she’ll replace the paci and continue playing leaving me to wonder if she suffers from some sort of animal-noise Tourette Syndrome.

Every animal is a woof.  Many people are woofs.  Sometimes even toys are woofs.

I’ve been trying to broaden her repertoire of animal sounds.  We happen to have a little toy horse that is right by where I change her diaper.  During diaper changes, I usually give her the horse, tell her it’s a horse, and that horses say, “Neigh!”  This lesson is not going over very well.  In fact, I may have created a new problem.

The last time we went outside, our neighbor’s dog was on the lawn.  Caroline immediately smiled, started bouncing up and down, pointed to the dog and, for the first time in her life without being prompted, she heartily said, “Neigh!”

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