More Widget tales

[siercia]

The past two mornings, she's insisted on "showing" me all the animals in her crib before I'm allowed to take her out. She shows me each one, and I have to greet and hug them each. As part of this, I ask her what their names are.

W: "And this is my pink doggy!"
M: "And what's his name?"
W: "ummmm, Toto!"
M: "ooh, Hi Toto!"
W: "And this is my ellllephant."
M: "And what is your elephant's name?"
W: "hmmmm. Also Toto!"
M: "Why hello there, Also Toto. How are you today?"

And then this morning, we're hanging out getting dressed, and she says to me, in her serious-Widget voice, "Mama, it occurs to me..." and then trails off. I look at her and say "What occurs to you, sweetie?" and she just made up some jibberish. It occurs to me? Since when do two year olds use vocabulary like that?

Comments

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

When I was two or three, and we had wood stoves in the house, we knew we weren't supposed to touch them when they were hot. My mom noticed I had a blister on my finger and asked me where it had come from, and apparently I said "I have no suggestions about that." To this day if I ask either of my parents a question they don't know the answer to, that's what they say.

[sarahparah.livejournal.com]

They listen, and imitate. It's so amazing, isn't it?

Just the other day Poopsie told me I was irritating her. How 'bout THAT for vocabulary!

[bookwitch.livejournal.com]

Kids are amazing. And your Widget is a perfect example of what happens to a child when you *gasp* treat her like a person and talk to her and read to her and such.

Kids love to say things they've heard us say (I'm just praying that Punkin doesn't pick up on some of what my husband calls "Mommy's special driving words" that I let slip out sometimes if I forget she's in the car. She probably will. In church. With her Nana.)

My in-laws were having a discussion one day about Hawaii for some reason, and my m-i-l said that the first people on Hawaii were Samoans. F-I-L says, 'no, Polynesian" Punkin looks up at him and says, 'Pollee....polleeneeesian?"

[rachelmichellek.livejournal.com]

Whee, that Widget's a hoot. that story made me laugh for three full minutes.

My parents told me that while other toddlers on the block were speaking one word at a time (Mommy, Cookie, etc) that I was silent, but then when I DID start to talk, it was in full sentences and I sounded like Walter Cronkite: "Please do not get shampoo in my eyes. My eyes are very sensitive." Sounds like Widget's got some toddler-Cronkite-speak in her. :)

[siercia]

That's pretty damn good, actually.

[siercia]

Oh, she will, never fear.

Polynesian. That's awesome.

[siercia]

Yeah, I think maybe she does.

I love watching her learn language.

[bookwitch.livejournal.com]

Heh.
She frightens me at times.
Although I think she'd have frightened me more if she'd looked at me and said, 'Mama, it occurs to me...'