i was reading christina's post today and it made me start thinking of all the cute things that bean used to say. like when her daddy first taught her to say please and it came out only as "pea!" and when she learned about the swimming pool she called it a "poo". (when she wanted to go swimming she would stand at the door and say "poo, pea! poo, pea!" ha ha ha!!!)
i remember last christmas when she got her nativity set she called baby jesus "baby gee-zee" (we all thought it made him sound like a rapper!!) and she adorably called santa claus "santa paw".
she had great pronunciations for hippopotamus (hamma-pamus) and yogurt (whoa-goat). she sweetly said "hold you me" when she wanted picked up. she covered her face and said "pee-koob" when she wanted to play peek-a-boo. she liked to pick out which pair of "nammies" she would wear to bed.
sadly, i know there are lots more that i just don't remember. as a parent you just can't fathom ever forgetting some of these moments then, just months later they are gone! i mean, i NEVER thought i'd forget that she called the swing in the backyard her "fing". but i found it written on a piece of paper i had thrown into her baby book when i was glancing through it last week. sigh. i only wish i had written more of these things down!
SO, on that note, here are some cute things she says now that i hopefully won't forget!
"an-nonder"- her pronunciation of "another". no matter what we do we can't get her to say it right!
"cheetas"- what she calls cheese puffs- a slight mispronunciation/misunderstanding of "cheetos" i believe.
"heart beep"- what she likes to listen to when i go to my o.b. appointments. she can't wait to "hear the baby's heart beep" :)
"ms. kins-bear"- her name for one of her bears. WE named it "mrs. bearkins" but no matter how many times we correct her she still says "ms. kins-bear" (when we correct her she looks at us like we are complete fools. as if to say "duh mom and dad, that is what i just said!!")
i love the way little ones talk but it just doesn't last that long. one month they are calling "oranges" "ohr-noos" and the next they are actually saying "oranges". it can be a little sad at the time, even though you are happy they can now say the word properly. i mean, you don't have any idea how sad i will be if bean decides to call santa claus anything other than "santa paw". seriously, very sad.
3 comments:
Yah! I'm so glad you wrote these sweet sayings down today. You're so right! It only takes a week or so for a new word to morph into it's proper pronunciation. I love all the new words and yet it's kind of bittersweet for me as they become more clear. These toddler years (months!) are just so fleeting!
I looked at a post I did all about Harrison's words a month ago and had already forgotten a couple of the cute things he said - that I did record!
Welcome to Phrase Friday!!
We had a friend whose child's language was extraordinarily well developed. She was chattering away when Baby Angel was still say 'dut' for duck. On day I asked her what she had in her hand (aged under 2) and she informed me
"Well, I call it a screwverdiver"
(It was a plastic screwdriver from a play toolkit.)
So precocious...but still cute!
such darling little pronunciantions Bean had/has! We call Nadia's "Nadiaisms." :o) That is so, so true, about how quickly we forget those sweet little things, even tho at the time they are the most wonderful things in the world and we're convinced the memory will never fade. I'm glad I do have at least some of them recorded. I was glancing through some old blog posts a week or so ago, and it was so much fun to rediscover those things.
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