Kids' Words

Archer told me about the food chain the other night, it went something like this:

Chicken comes from the grocery store, and before that it comes from the factory. The factories make the chicken and all the other things that sposed to be at the grocery store. The factory makes milk, the cows give us milk, cows, or the factory where the teeny weeny people live in the cow factory, then they send the milk to the grocery store then the poeple bring the milk to the houses cause they runned out of milk.

He tells me stories like this all the time, what fun to see the world through his eyes, as he tries to piece together all the things he knows into a logical way that the world works. (Who are the teeny weeny people?)

Shelly has a list of words she's saying now, this has just happened over the last few weeks and its fun to learn more of her words along with her, and try to translate them...

She says Archer but it sounds like "Ah Da"
Thank you sounds like "dee dee" or "dada" but really short sounds, not like when she says Daddy which is more like "Dah dee"
Please sounds like "ees," and cheese also sounds a lot like "ees"
She says "e i e i o" when we sing "Old McDonald"
She moves her lips along with the words when we sing the rainbow song, and sings "purple" and the last part "rainbow"
She sings the melody of the first part of the alphabet
She says "up ees" when she wants to be picked up, and "up ees" when she wants down
All done is "ah da"
And let's not forget her favorite word - NO! When she shakes her head she puts her head down and shakes and sometimes so hard that she looses her balance and falls down. Its hard not to laugh because she's taking herself so seriously, but she's just so cute!

Most of the things she says we still have no idea what they mean. And mostly I just say to her "show me" and then follow her around trying to guess things.

I still remember the first time Archer said "I love you" to us, I remember where we were and what we were doing. I wish I could remember more of his firsts but I remember lots of them, and life's not ever about going back, its always about going forward. Making room for the next first things that are about to happen and being ready for the future fun!