Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Words and other updates

Hayden is growing like crazy and while she still speaks in about 50% Muppet, her English skills are coming along. She has "normal" words like "cheese", "shoes" and "bye bye" but she also has those odd words that we just can't quite understand:

GaGa = Still cracker & Duck
DaDuche = Tractor & Jacket
Mummus = Hummus (that one isn't too weird)
I fwy = "I try"
salsas = socks
Bipers = Diapers

Funny language related incident:

We were in the car stopped in traffic and there was a lane of cars stopped next to us. Hayden kept pointing to one of the cars and saying, "Da! Da!" Since "da" usually means, "that" I just figured I'd humor her by saying, "Oh, I see, there's a car there".
She got angry and started waving her arm saying, "Da! Da!"
I said, "Oh, do you see a red car?"
She stopped waving her arms, looked at me and gave a deep, exasperated sigh.
"Woof" she said, and pointed to the dog in the window of the car next to us.

Another one:

For about a week every time we got in the car, Hayden would flip out and scream the entire way home, yelling "I fwy!" at the top of her lungs. I had no idea what "I fwy" meant and there wasn't anything in or around the car that in any way fit in context.
Finally, one day Heidi was outside while I was putting Hayden in her car seat to leave. As usual, she started screaming, "I fwy! I fwy!"
I asked Heidi what she thought it meant and Heidi explained that in "Hayden speak" "I fwy" usually means, "I try" as in, "I want to do it myself".
Sure enough, she wanted to buckle her carseat herself. Once I started letting her do it life got much easier. (Don't get me wrong, she still screams bloody murder every time we go anywhere in the car, but at least she doesn't yell, "I fwy!" constantly.)