From Miss M:
“Ema, that’s BIGNORMOUS!”
“I don’t wanna go in my ‘partment building. I want to go to Israel.”*
“Is today tomorrow?”
* We haven’t been there in almost three years but are going in three months.
From AM:
Picking at the tablecloth and signing “table” “blanket,” neither of which I knew that he knew.** (He’ll only sign in proper context.)
We taught him to say “Ema” which sounds like “mmmMA!” It was cute for about five seconds, but now he thumps up and down the hall whining “mmmMA!”
I think we’ll stick with the signing.
** It’s stuff like this that gets us disqualified from EI. When he was being evaluated he was shown a picture of a baby and was clearly supposed to say “baby” or “ba” or some such. No dice. He signed “bath.” Why? Because the baby had no clothes.
Such adorable kiddos.
You must be doing an awful lot of signing if AM is learning words like tablecloth!
Madeleine, he totally figured it out himself. I only use a tablecloth on Shabbat–and he noticed it and signed table, then blanket. (Um, yeah, no problem with cognition.) I have no idea what the actual sign is, nor would I have ever thought to teach it to him. (The sign for “truck” would be infinitely more useful in his universe!)
Personally I love “bignormous” and plan to begin using it regularly!
And is today tomorrow is a very complicated concept.
I shall also begin using “bignormous.” That is a great word. And AM is just so smart!
I love these. Thanks for sharing them.
I love the word bignormous, I think I will start using it as a replacement for ginormous.
AM is a budding genius!
I want to go to Israel now too!
Now that you have “words” you are complaining 😉 ?
I can’t wait to hear what she thinks of Israel! Will it be bignormous to her?