Monday, February 20, 2012

It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It

I realized after posting the tale of Phoebe's tattling on Cooper that I failed to include how she says things. Many of her words are clear and fairly easy to understand, but not all. So when she said "Mommy, Cooper hit me" it sounded more like "Mommy, Duba hit me." Duba is how she says Cooper, which is an improvement considering she used to call both boys Peter.

Other words currently taking up space in her vocabulary:


Daddy computer movie
class iPad (which she calls myPad)
glasses Bekah mine
happy Ryan cheese
birthday Benjamin more
tiger Nana yes (which comes out "yesh")
boots go Grandpa (Bumpa) 
cookie book Grandma (also Bumpa) 
bagel cat mess
banana dog phone
apple bow piano (sounds like "ano")
orange hair music
juice ear play ("pay")
milk eye doll
plate shoulder baby
bowl arm hold it (said as one word)
spoon toes shirt
smoothie noes dress

There is a new one, taught to her courtesy of her big brothers. Sometimes she says it to scold the boys. Sometimes she says it to herself in a private, laughing sort of way. Want to know the new phrase?

Doo-doo head.

Yup, she's going to be that kid in nursery who teaches all the other kids naughty words.

Awesome.

2 comments:

Falisha said...

Hey, I don't see "Isaac" in there ;)
I can't believe how much that little girl has grown since I've known your family, it's incredible.

Margot said...

Whoa, did I really leave Isaac off? That was an oversight since she asks for him daily. The list is by no means comprehensive. The size of her vocabulary is kind ridiculous. But ridiculous in a good way.