Monday, November 28, 2011
From the mouth of the babe
Emerging from the babble are real and actual words. Usually just one at a time, but there is a self belief written all over her face as she looks you in the eye, grabs your nose in a killer grip, and says 'Mouth'.
Or points to the sky and says 'Boat.'
Up until now we have had names, and the two most useful words in the world - 'More' and 'NO'.
I say 'Have you had enough?' and she says. 'No. More. K?" She has recently added the opposite of 'more ' which is 'Nuff', but it is not usually used in conjunction with food - rather if she is being bear hugged by her brother she yells out 'NUFF!'
Each word is a complete sentence with full stop.
This is an example of a conversation we might have.
A: 'EreeDada?' (she uses sign language of hands palm upwards for where is..)
Me: He's at work.
A. Work.
Me: He's gone to work in the car.
A: Car.
Me: He's gone to work in the blue car.
A. Blue.
Like a little computer she absorbs the data and spits it out the other end. I'm not the only one she copies, as I found out a few days ago. We were leaving the Polling Booth, and she turned and waved at the nice polling lady who'd given her a sticker - 'Bye Bye. See-ya. Poo Bum.'
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