Learning the Lingo

Here are a few videos from the other night when we were at the dinner table eating chocolate ice cream. You know how most parents, when they don't want their child to know exactly what they're talking about, they spell things out? Of course, we all do that....but to get the message out faster, Dan and I have devised our own method of acronyming instead of spelling things all the way out....that can get tedious after a while. Our letter-code prevents the kid from getting obnoxiously obsessed and excited about something that we may be talking about.







So we eat "C-I-C" or "V-I-C" or chocolate or vanilla ice cream....we have "P-C" Popcorn, when it's time to watch a movie. As far as her favorite characters and tv shows, there is "T-B" for Tinkerbell...."S-S" for Sesame Street...."T-S" for Toy Story...and so forth. Each day brings new code words for Mom and Dad to learn between them. We are developing our own lingo, so don't be surprised to hear us talking in letters instead of words the next time you see us.

While we are learning our codes, we are also learning Molly's interpretations of various words too. For example, a mustache is a "must-nash" which I find funny because I have always wondered how men with mustaches eat with hair under their noses...they must gnash their food, huh?

She also likes to play "swinglebars" with Daddy, this is when he swings her up high in the air and swings around with her. When we read together, she likes to spell out words and punctuation marks...an exclamation mark is a "questchamation." When she sings "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," it ends with "Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary, like a bunny dream."

Believe it or not, she also knows and understands the word "Fragile" thanks to our Tinkerbell. In one of the Tink movies "Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure," she had to create a moonstone topped scepter to make blue pixie dust for the great fairy tree. We can say, something is "Fragile, like the Moonstone." and Molly understands it must be handled carefully or just left alone. If she goes for a glass, I say..."No, it's fragile like the moonstone...no, don't touch." She backs away with sincere understanding and says, "Oh, fwagile, wike the moonstow." At least she gets it.

We find our ways to get the message across or hide the message...either way, we do just fine.