Talky Talky

[marydell]

Charlie is starting to be more verbal (finally!) , and so is moving into the stage of saying unintentionally cute things.

1. we watch train videos with Charlie before bedtime.  While I'm dressing him for bed he usually says "choo choo" over and over in case I forget that we're going to watch choo choos.  The other night when I was putting on his diaper he changed his wording a bit.

Charlie: pee pee!
Me: pee pee?  New word, huh? Yes, we're changing your diaper, pee pee.
Charlie: pee pee!
Me: uh...do you want to try sitting on the potty?
Charlie: (shakes head and points toward living room): PEE PEE!
Me: Do you mean Tee Vee? 
Charlie: (big grin) yeah, yeah, Tee Vee!  Tee Vee! Tee Pee! Pee Pee!

2. going for a drive, we went for a while next to a railroad track that did not have a train on it, much to Charlie's disappointment.

Charlie: choo choo?
Me: Yeah, that's right! That's the train track, but there's no choo choo right now.
Charlie: choo choo?
Me: sorry, sweetie, trains mostly don't run here on the weekend.  No choo choo.
Charlie: CHOO CHOO!
Me: Sorry sweetie, no choo choo!
Charlie: (quiet for a moment)
Charlie: TRAIN! train!
Me: Very good! Train is the other word for choo choo. But there still isn't one here, sorry!
Charlie: (slower and clearer) Trraaiiinn?

Comments

[dharma-slut.livejournal.com]

Don't you love that-- say it slow for the big dummy who should have made a traaaaaiiin appear by now but clearly isn't doing her job...

Yay for the learning to talk part, it's so much fun!

[notodette.livejournal.com]

YES! This!

My babies say the funniest things now! And they think 18-wheelers are trains and say choo choo at them.

You're (mary) at the beginning of a golden funny stage.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

They're Australian! (road trains, I believe.)

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Yeeeees! The old "what I tell you three times is true" gag!

[kouredios.livejournal.com]

Aw. But saying its name three times is supposed to make it appear! That's the charm, right?

I love it when they get verbal. So much fun!

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Oh! It is disappointing when the magic of synonyms isn't actually magic!

[sanguinity]

Hee! Words should be more magic than that!



Kinda related: there's a story told about my brother, being carried as we walk along the waterfront in Seattle, and a train going by.

By brother shouts, "Choo! Choo!"

My mother says, "Yes, it's a train!" (My mother did not do baby-vocabulary with us.)

"Choo! Choo!"

"Train."

"Choo!"

"Traaaaaaaaaain."

Continue, without variation except growing frustration on both of their parts, until they get to the ferry terminal. Whereupon my parents put my brother down, only to discover that he's lost a shoe. ("Shoe! Shoe!")

My brother does not remember this firsthand, of course, but he is not above using it to score a point against our parents. ;-)

[marydell.livejournal.com]

OMG that's hilarious. Charlie says choo, shoe, and juice pretty much all the same way, too.