reality

To follow on from yesterday, today we had talking failure.

Kiddo: She says, "I...," she says..., she says.... Look, she's not big enough to talk yet.

Pretending

Kiddo uses to talk as a transitive verb meaning to speak on behalf of. For example, I am often asked to talk her stuffed animals. Now she has a non-verbal sister, so Kiddo occasionally talks the baby.

"She's happy in her swing. She says, 'WOO-HOO! I like to swing.'"
 and my favorite: "She's lookin' at you. She says, 'You're beautiful.'"

Assimilation

It's pretty amazing to me that a toddler can internalize the rules of English construction well enough to create a perfectly idiomatic sentence like "It's a silly Chick-Fil-A cow car!"

Not quite

While a friend was visiting with her small dog, T.G. commented that he hoped someday we would have a large dog, so that the girls could play more roughly with it. A day later, the kiddo proved she was listening but didn't quite get the message.

Kiddo: We're gonna get a BIG dog that I can BEAT!

Pop uncultured

Girl at playground: Do you like Frozen?
Kiddo: I like frozen peas.

crafty

What happens when there are lots of crafty people in the family:

"Mama, I'm gonna knit you a quilt pillow!"

Eggcorn 2

Kiddo 1 is holding Kiddo 2 on the couch and looks up at me (the baby-holding assistant) excitedly.

"She got a heartbeep!"

What...?

A couple about our age is walking past, and the man looks down at my tiny baby and gives us an "Aww w!"

His female companion elbows him in the side and hisses, "We talked about this!"

yup

Also overheard, from a British father to his family touring the Hoover Dam: "We're in the shade, and it's STILL hot!"

Overheard at Hoover Dam

I was changing the Little Bit when two college-age girls walked into the bathroom.

Girl A: Oooh, a baby! I want a baby. My dream is to have at least two babies... max two babies... at least one.
Girl B: My dream is to go backpacking in Europe.