Yesterday at breakfast, Carmen was eating her oatmeal and I was eating my own cereal. Carmen looked at me and asked for something, and I had no idea what she said. "What did you ask for?"
"Stabizz." she said, pointing to my bowl of cereal.
"Oh! You want one of my strawberries from my cereal!"
"Uh-huh!" so I fished one out and handed it to her.
I haven't had cereal with freeze-dried strawberries in it for about a month. How cool is it that she remembers words and says them when she's figured out how to form them?!
She also used to use the word "bom" to describe anything with buttons that made noise. My phone? A bom. (Not so great if you're on a plane and your kid wants to play with the phone. BOM, Mommy! BOMMMMM!!") Mark's iPod touch? Bom. The thing you swipe your card on at the grocery store? Elevator buttons? All bom's! I think it's because she's trying to imitate the beeping noise the things make.
But now she's differentiated between the phone and Mark's iPod. The iPod is a 'pod' and my phone is a cross between a 'bom' and a 'pwn'. Yeah. My kid says pwn.
It's so cool to hear her learn new words everyday. I like teaching her words too. When I teach her complicated words (like "Octopus") it's cute to see her thinking hard about how the word sounds and then try to imitate it.
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