Today after watching Horton, Nicole asked me, "Do I look like a 'bladdering' boob? Or a 'idiant'?" (with a VERY sarcastic look on her face, complete with slanted eyebrows like an adult might do)
She has also hugged me a couple of times recently and said very passionately, "You're the best, Mommy". Sometimes this seems sincere, but sometimes it seems like she's acting out something she has seen. Either way, I'll take it.
Nicole suddenly has a keen interest in Muzzy... the cartoon monster-thing that teaches languages. This program has been around since the late 70's / early 80's I think (that's how outdated it looks, anyway). She saw it when I was looking it up on ebay the other day... I explained to her that we actually used to have it when she was 2 & we were still in Savannah (on 30-day trial, I sent it back because it scared her a little).
She insists that she wants it again and that she is big enough to like it now. She so wants to learn languages, not surprisingly at all. So, I'm trying to win it on ebay right now!
She insists that she wants it again and that she is big enough to like it now. She so wants to learn languages, not surprisingly at all. So, I'm trying to win it on ebay right now!
Sometimes she tells me how to say words in 'Spanish' or 'Bulgarian' (with a flourish of rolling r's and lots of emphasis on particular syllables, of course) and sometimes she's absolutely right, but sometimes she embellishes a bit. Especially when she sings a song...usually its a language all her own, and we have to ask her at the end what language it was. Sometimes we don't have to ask because she'll throw out an actual Spanish word in the middle. She's picking up words even if she doesn't know what they mean. And thats not easy considering she's hardly ever around anyone speaking Spanish!
Nicole has a pretty vast vocabulary, as you know, but I love when she occasionally pronounces things her own way. I have a few words of her own to record here:
~ mokin control (remote control)
~ elf-phalant (may have mentioned this one before)
~ ick-streemly
~ bref-kist
She also combines words like this, "Mommy, why did we didn't go to the beach today?"
I think that I'll have to update more later, because I have gone blank on the other words I wanted to add......
