DISQUS

RayJ · 1 year ago

I thought I better jump in and make a comment, since the last blog enumerates 104 comments... Evidently, all but 2 had to be deleted...

OK. You touched on my favorite toddler subject - wishing I could remember EVERY SINGLE cute thing they say or do. We would be enthralled and captivated each day of our lives if we had that universal remote control in our possession.

I 'lent' a video recorder to my son, who has his own toddler, and I don't care if it gets peanut butter in it - just so I have some unabashed cuteness captured for as long as I can keep the images and sounds.


At no other time in their lives are kids this charming and innocent. Just being near them as they work each day is magnificent in its clarity and ingenuity - what a beautiful (and fleeting) world-view they have. All too soon they find out the realities behind all that magic - but hopefully, before it all gives way to maturity, we adults are changed forever by seeing with through their wide eyes for a little while.


Thanks, Kath!

curious · 1 year ago

You state the words your daughter was trying to say, but you didn't explain how she was mispronouncing them in the first place. That's the cute part; hearing them repeat what they THOUGHT they heard a word to be. Their malapropisms are what makes it funny, when you finally get what they actually meant. What did she say for "straw" and "whale"???

Kathleen · 1 year ago

for 'straw,' she said 'daw'. she consistently doesn't say initial S sounds. hence, snoopy is 'noopy,' snowman is 'noman,' etc.

i believe the phoenetic spelling of her 'whale' would be an exasperated 'waaay-oh!'