One trap that we ALL fall into as parents is adopting baby talk. I just don’t think you can help it. Because, let’s face it, your baby? Is the CUTEST BABY OF ALL TIME. (imma let you finish) And EVERYTHING they say? OHMYGOD, IS TOTALLY WORTH REPEATING OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
Bryan and I don’t speak in the King’s English anymore. We now primarily speak Tony. Our secondary language is Blue’s Clues sign language.
Tony’s favorite phrase is Hmm. See. This stems from us NEVER UNDERSTAND A DURN THING HE SAID and so when he’d defiantly repeat the same thing over and over again, we’d calmly say, “Hm, now let’s see what Tony’s saying” or “Hm, now let’s see what Tony wants”, and suddenly, Hm. See. is all he ever says.
Me: Are you hungry, Tony?
Tony: Hm. See.
Me: Okay, yes or no? What do you want to eat?
Tony: Hm. See.
And he says this while cocking one hip and lifting his other hand out to the side, kinda teapot-ish, but mostly just FREAKING ADORABLE because what a little detective he is! (I am THAT mom, by the way.)
Now if Bryan and I are looking for anything (ANYTHING.. tv shows, internet something or other, our keys.. ANYTHING), we say, “Hm. See.” And then I realized it’s because it’s just all too fleeting.
Last night, Tony said, “Well, let’s see.”
And my heart broke.
(He then followed it up with “IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY!” which was completely unrelated but still totally awesome and I thought, Well, maybe there is some more fun in store.)
(But I already miss my baby.)
Oooh I’m going to start to say that in hopes Theo will adopt it as well!
Bryan and I talk Theo all the time. If I’m on the couch and want Bryan to give me the remote I’ll say “Have it? HAVE IT?” And if Bryan wants to make popcorn he says “Mooooore coooooorn? Corn? Corn?”
You’re right. Anything that comes out of their chubby little faces is the cutest thing EVAR. Sigh.
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My (now 3) daughter used to call her belly her “wuggy” Cutest. Baby. Word. EVER. I was sad to see “wuggy” go and belly in it’s place. My husband and I still use the word sometimes though.
We have lots of kidisms that have remained in our vernacular. And we correct both girls if they say “syrup” instead of SAW-WOP. Alice’s hearing was impaired by all of the fluid so her words were even funnier. If she started clipping consonants we knew it was time to take her back to the ENT.
ANYway. Write these things down — more than just casually on your blog — actually have a LIST of the funny things he says. You will forget. I made scrapbook pages of my girls’ funny phrases, and I’m SO very glad I did. When I look at those pages now I am always shocked that I’ve forgotten already. But I have.
So write. them. down. in a list. You’re a Virgo. You love lists. Go. Start a list.
Oh, we do this too. It’s something you just can’t help, I think – but that phrase combined with the cocked hip is just HILARIOUS!
One of my current favorites of Madeline’s is her tapping her mouth pensively while saying “Hmmm…” Oh, and also if you ask her what her name is, she’ll point to herself and say “Name is MADDIE.”
I need to listen to Elaine and make some lists though.
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I hate how fleeting it is. We definitely keep the Sabrina-isms longer than she does. When she started talking, she called herself “Nana” then she moved on to “Nina” and now she will defiantly declared that her name is Sabrina if we refer to her as Nina. Sad.
I made cookies yesterday and my husband came home and said to me “Nina cookie?” because that was her first sentence and it was SO FREAKING CUTE. She abandoned it long ago for “Give me a cookie biotch” but we still say Nina cookie.
There are so many little words that Maggie mispronounces (‘Clippard’ for ‘Clifford’ the big red dog, ‘open-in’ instead of just ‘open’, etc) that I don’t have the heart to correct yet. Because I know someday soon she’ll say them all perfectly and waaaah!