Today I was talking to Mom and Dad and the conversation was going something like this...
Who had it last year? Who's having it this year? What time is he having it? Are you going to it? Who's coming to it?
And a whole series of questions along those lines. Dad pointed out that if it were any other time of the year it would be a completely nonsense conversation. We were, of course, discussing Thanksgiving.
There's all kinds of strange conversations that happen around kids every day and they somehow manage to pick up language and context and know excatly what we're talking about most of the time, even when we start to spell words. Tonight Archer said "Oh No!" and I swear, Shelly repeated the words! She's getting to be a good mimic of sounds, and Archer's already an expert mimic of phrases and even repeating the tone of voice. "Excuse me!" He'll say, but not in the polite way, more with an attitude, and then he'll point out to me, "You dropped something!" Adults laugh when kids say adult phrases, but we really shouldn't be surprised, they pick up everything they hear, and now Archer doesn't need to hear it more than once to remember it, one time is enough for him to add it to his vocabulary. Watch out world, he's soaking it all up as fast as it comes at him!
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