The majestic and the mundane
The four of us went on a walk in the neighborhood yesterday. Literally: this is the park three minutes from our house. It still blows us away.
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| We scrambled up a loose rock trail to this spot |
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| Alice and I stayed at this point... |
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| ...and Edith and Tom hiked on up to that tree in the center of the photo. Can you see them, tiny, waving from the ledge behind it? |
A: Poop.
E: Not appropriate.
A: Poop.
E: Not appropriate.
A: Poop.
E: Not appropriate!
A: Poop.
E: Not! Appropriate!
A: Poop.
E: NOT APPROPRIATE!!
A: Don't get frustrated, girl. Poop.
E: Not...
G: Edith, just don't respond, if you want her to stop.
A: Poop.
E: ...
A: [Mischievous grin.] Poop aPOOPriate!
3 comments:
I can't believe Alice is *punning* at age 2-plus-a-few-weeks. Talk about precocious!! Plus, what 2-year-old says "Don't get frustrated, girl"??? Anyway, this conversation cracked us up over here. :)
The "Don't get frustrated, girl" line surprised us, too. I think it's not so much complete knowledge of what she's saying as it is instant recall/mimicry of things she's heard and a sense of the context in which one might say them. I'd put money on it that she overheard someone say that sentence at some point, probably to Edith when she was losing her temper.
Another example: My folks are supposed to be flying in for a visit tomorrow, and today it started to snow. Edith and I were starting to fret out loud over how the storm might affect their flight, and Alice announced, "I hope they're not stacked over Kennedy"...a line directly out of Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, and one she can't possibly understand other than knowing it has something to do with people scheduled to fly in and possibly having trouble.
Hah! "Stacked over Kennedy"!!! I love that line in Christmas Eve on Sesame Street -- a great example of the humor for adults that SS is so good at including. Hilarious that A picked up on it in perfect context. Hope your family's travel plans weren't disrupted by the snow!
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