I love this picture --to me a captures our normal life right now, completely full of energy and spunk. Now that the kids are talking more, we have very sweet toddler conversations, especially when we are in the car. I'll give a few snippets of our conversation on the way home from Bible study this morning. I write this so that I don't forget it.
Noah: Momma, Bites! (translation: Mighty Bites, his favorite cereal)
Mom: Noah we don't have any Bites in the car. You ate them all.
Noah: Momma Bites!!
Mom: Noah, I don't know what to tell you. Bites all gone.
Noah: Bites!
Ella: Gee Gee, Gee Gee, Gee GEE! (translation: her beloved Froggy)
I look back and see that Noah has stolen Gee Gee from Ella's clutches, probably out of frustration that there are no Bites to be eaten.
Mom: Noah, that is not kind. Gee Gee is Ella's.
Ella: Aya Gee Gee. (translation: Ella's Gee Gee)
Noah: Noah Gee Gee.
Mom: How about you share? I'll count to ten while Noah holds Gee Gee and then it will go back to Ella.
I give Gee Gee to Noah.
Mom: One, two, three.
Noah: Four, five, sax, seben, eight, nine, ten!
Nicole: Okay Noah, time to give Gee Gee back to Ella.
Amazingly, he gives it back to her without a fuss. Noah continues to count. Ella mutters about Gee Gee. I deal with the construction traffic that has sprouted up on Roosevelt Road by heading into the neighborhoods. We drive by a park.
Ella: Momma ark!
Mom: Yes, Ella, a park!
Ella: Aya ting! (translation: Ella swing!)
Mom: Not right now Ella. Ella swing later.
Ella: Momma ark! Aya ting!
Noah: Noah ide! (translation: Noah slide!)
Mom: Yep Noah, you like to slide. Did you go to the park with Aunt Debby this week?
Ella: Aunt Deaddy! Aunt Deaddy ting!
Mom: What else did you do at the park?
Noah: Ide!
Ella: Ducks! Quack, quack, quack.
Mom: I heard that you saw ducks.
Noah starts in with quacking noises followed by snoring/oinking noises (to them, it is the same noise). Ella imitates Noah. The car approaches a train track.
Ella: Choo, choo!
Noah: Freight train!
Mom: Yep, that is where the train goes...
Ella and Noah make train noises for a few minutes and then go back to quacking and oink/snorting. And that is it --I love the simplicity of these conversations.
5 comments:
Love it! oddly, we have some strange conversations ourselves, and they do not involve two year olds. For example:
Brian:did you know they used to think if one ovary released an egg it was going to be a boy baby and if the other did it it is going to be a girl baby?
Me: How in the world do you know that?????
Brian: I have knowledge about the ancient world.
Me: *sigh* of course you do. :-)
Beth --so how exactly do ovaries fit into his study of biblical texts? :)
Oh amen! That is my life at the moment with just one two year old. The conversations can be so inane, but they are precious and one day we will desperately miss them.
So cute! I can't wait until my conversations with Finley aren't just a monologue. ;)
This is too funny!!
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