I Love Kid Words

Of all the amazing, watching your child grow up miracles, watching the acquisition language has got to be tops. It is so dang funny, confusing, serious, and most of all poetic.

Some examples, listed by kid:

Noa:

"Bee-yuu ta ta!" is what she says when I put her down for sleep and am leaving the room. Ta ta!?

"wurtz" is a fork. "mommy wurtz" is mommies fork, of course.

"Piyoun" or "piyouny" is a spoon.

"phone, have it." is pretty obvious.

"Read it to me.", with surprisingly great pronunciation!

"wall-ries" are flowers, said very matter of factly, like of course wall-ries are flowers, I don't even need to explain it to you.

"Tea-mutz" is bengal spice tea in milk, her all time favorite.

"ma-lee-lai" is familia, the most delicious musli cereal ever.

"ba-li-ta" is blanket.

Isaac:

I was trying to get the dirt about what happens at his new preschool. He's not super into kids his own age, so I asked him if he talks to the teacher very much. He said, "Not really, but when I hurt somebody I do." So I, trying to sound cooler than I felt, asked him, "Did you hurt anyone today?" He answered, "No, not that I'm aware of." (!!!)

I was trying to sneak a putty knife into the kitchen to clean something sticky off of the floor. I was sort of trying to hide it from Isaac because I thought he would want to talk about it or want it or just be difficult about it. He was doing something else and glanced over at me. "Mom, why to you have a putty knife in your hand?" So I answered, "Well, I was going to clean that sticky goop off the floor with it. And how do you know the word putty knife?" He then told me, "I just know it instinctually"

We were grating apple for our morning familia, and Isaac wanted to help. After grating for a while, he looked inside and said, "There are big bucks, big trucks of apple swimming around in the cheese grater." 

We were talking about how our aquarium membership ran out. I told him it was only good for a year, and that ended a week ago. He didn't say anything for a while, and then asked, "Where do all the years go when they get finished, like where are they stored?" 

This one is totally weird: Isaac was talking about a 5 ear punch out. I wanted an explanation. "A 5 ear punchout is a person who has 5 ears and you go into the person's house and you punch out the air and then you go back out of the person's house and punch back in the air

A dinosaur punch out is a school where you learn about dinosaurs if you want to learn about them."

I am definitely going to keep that in mind!

She walks!

Maybe looking so cute helped her to walk solo??

Isaac and Noa and I went to watch trains after coop camp today. Noa was wearing lots of sunscreen and a hat and I felt proud of my careful mommying. Then in a stroke of wonderful luck, my former yoga student Joan, who lives right there, and who I never see, walked out of her house. And even luckier, she's a baby physical therapist!

I told her I was ever so slightly concerned that Noa was taking a while to walk. She reassured me that Noa is perfect, just very very flexible. She did one little test on her foot, then put her down.

Two seconds later Noa took a step toward me, UNASSISTED! I told Joan that she must have put some baby PT spell on Noa. But I was really happy about it. So proud!

The Wonderfully Babbling Baby

My whole face is smiling!!!

Jeremy thinks this photo is too fierce, but I love it. I love the smile that Noa has that is so enormous, it changes her whole face into smiles, eye smiles, nose smile, I think her ears are even smiling.

Noa is saying some pretty fierce things lately, to go along with her smile. She now says "waa-luu" for water, "woof" for doggies, or other animals that look like doggies. And oh boy, does she ever love doggies. She asks for "woof?" as soon as we get outside. She calls Goose "Doose", or "Doose-a" when she is being especially loving. She asks for Goose sometimes when she first wakes up. Like she's in her crib and I reach down to get her and as I lift her up she says, "Doose!?" She crawls around after Goose, and if Goose walks away from her she says, "uh-oh doose"

In her own language there is lots of "wee-waa", and "pee-paa", and "buuring, burring." Her smile gets like the photo above if I say any of that.

Just to wax on a bit more about how awesome Noa is, she is insanely loving, diving into my lap and snuggling, diving into Isaac's lap when I'm trying to read to them at night, and asking for daddy at least 3 times a day when he's at work.

She's also vicious and pulls Isaac's hair like crazy, and scratches all of our faces.

What a bundle of a little girl. We love you Noa!

I changed my mind!

My friends who don't have gmail accounts haven't been able to look at this anymore, and that feels sad. So I am becoming public again, but not to search engines, and only devoted to all things Isaac and Noa.
Thank you for bearing with me :)

New Words Noa!

Yeah, I'm a big girl who sits in a rocking chair!

I feel like the popcorn is starting to pop!
Today I asked Isaac if he wanted to take a bath with Noa and she said, "Beth? Beth? Beth!?" Noa really really loves baths, so it's no surprise that bath, or beth, would be one of her first words, but it makes me so happy to hear it. She also says "Wa" for water, "Mommeee, Dadeeee, this?, that?", and of course "Nooooo"

Such A Little Big Guy

Escorting his friend Harper home from the playground

We were sitting at the kitchen table when Isaac said, "I'd like to go to outer space if the price comes down!"

I found out later that he and Jeremy had been discussing Virgin Atlantic's plan to take civilians to outer space and that it would be expensive. Though when he started whining and crying about wanting a sweet snack, I reassured myself that he wasn't actually 43 1/2, only 3 1/2.

Some of my mommy friends say he's already like a dad. And a friend from Fort Greene said he totally looks like his friend Roger. He says he's a chrysalis, in between the caterpillars and butterflies at his little preschool.

Bathing Beauties!

Oh, they had a good time!

There is nothing like a messy wet baby-head!

Noa has been enjoying playing with her friend Asha, visiting all the way from lovely Ireland! They both really enjoyed splashing.

Noa is showing off some new words for our friends:

Hi! (That's a major one, with hand-waving)
Bye! (Also with waving)
Mommeeee (usually in distress)
Daaaiii, or Daadii (usually with excitement and happiness)
He-yo (with her little hand on her ear, like she's talking on the phone)
and just today, Maisy!, For Maisy mouse, of the beautiful books by Lucy Cousins.

Oh, she's growin' up!!