Words, Words, They’re Good For Your Heart
I really dislike those parents.
The ones who always has the fastest, brightest, most talented child in the universe.
Or at least according to them.
The parent at the playground who asks if your child eats tofu, which mine does, just so they can one up you and say, “Well, my kid loves tofu, and eats it with liver and brussel sprouts.”
Seriously? Does that make you feel better as a parent?
Anyhow, I am not one of them.
Although, there is one thing that I have always been impressed with in Babisodes. As a 3-year old, Babisodes has a rather extensive vocabulary and developed verbal skills. But before I go strutting around and beating my chest like one of them, please allow me to say that I have never confessed this to another parent about my child. In fact, I was not really aware of it until her pediatrician pointed it out at her third year check up.
“What is that Mrs. Doctor? Are those Or-i-ga-mi birds?”
Or when her aunt came to visit when she was just under 2-years old.
“Look over there, Babisodes! There’s a river.”
“No Auntie. That’s the Charles Ribber.”
Even now, I sometimes still lose sight of how old she is when she speaks.
“Mommy, do you wanna play store with me? Would you like to be the customer or the proprietor?”
But I will admit. There are times when her mature words are not always used in the right context. Like the other day when she tried conch for the first time and said, “Yuck mommy! That’s De-lightful.” Which ultimately leads me to believe that she really has no idea what some words mean.
So yesterday afternoon, while hobbling around the living room in her sweet, innocent plastic heels and Disney Princess gown, she smiled at me and said, “Di-ar-rhea mommy, hehehe.”
The word rolling off her tongue as if she had just discovered the proper enunciation of ‘Onomatopoeia’, only it was ‘Diarrhea.’
“Do you have to go poo, honey? Go to the bathroom. I’ll help you take off your dress-up clothes.”
“No, I don’t need to go poo, mommy,” as she wobbled back to her plastic tea party.
<<<Faaaart>>>
“Mommy! Did you hear that? It was diarrhea!”
“That was not diarrhea. Who ever taught you that word? You just passed gas. Are you sure you don’t need to poo? Why don’t I take you to the bathroom so you can try.”
*Sits on potty seat. Telephone rings*
“Is that daddy on the phone? I want to talk to him. I need to talk to him!”
“Hello? Daddy? I’m diarrhea-ing.”
Between the farting and announcing via phone about her gastrointestinal distress while on the can, I’m not sure where to begin in instilling more demure, lady like behavior.
I mean, she could have at least taken off the heels.
p.s. She was indeed correct. It did turn out to be di-arr-heaaaaaa.
lol. you had me until the p.s. and then i was done for. ack.
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:43 pm
ok, this kid is freaking hysterical. Talking while pooing, very normal these days
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April 3rd, 2009 at 12:11 am
Poor baby!
And you’ve done some awesome parenting, Momisodes!
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:37 am
I always try to avoid talking to such parents who have in their mind that their children are the best among the best. Believe me, there are fathers out there who are like that, and getting caught in conversations about their children are very unpleasant. You might want to sincerely say a few things about your children but they will quickly speak to make sure that their children are better. Sigh!
Babisodes is so cute and clever!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 12:51 am
Just too cute for words…Hey…she knows what she’s doing
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:03 am
I hope that some day I’ll have a child as adorable as yours!
I think you need to save that story and bring it out when she brings her first date around!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 2:11 am
haha. i enjoyed the diarrhea-ing part!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 2:25 am
once again you’ve brought a smile to my face and a laugh to my lips as well as a gag!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 3:59 am
I swear to you, I can HEAR her cute little voice when I read your posts! Just makes me smile all over myself!
And honestly, I sometimes use fancy words that I have no idea what they mean…:)
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April 3rd, 2009 at 6:10 am
*sigh* Kids. Gotta love ‘em. Reminds me of my now 6-year old when we walked into a furniture store she loudly (and quite proudly) announced, “MOM! I FARTED!” Yeah. Great.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 7:06 am
That is reallllly funny! lol. Very smart little one indeed. Lucky you!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 7:46 am
I know I’m like a five year old about it, but how can you not laugh at things like that? Potty humor is funny, I don’t care who you are! My kids will be the ones in school who pass gas and get the whole class giggling about it.
A non potty reference related to your post:
We were eating breakfast at my mom’s house one time, and my mom and Ava, who was almost 3 at the time, were talking about rhyming words. My mom said something like ball and book, those words ‘kind of’ rhyme. Ava looked at her matter of factly and said “Gramma, those words don’t rhyme, they are aliterated.” My mom looked at me confused. I said “don’t look at me, she’s right!” My toddler had just schooled my mother in grammar. I couldn’t have been prouder:)
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:51 am
I used to work in a pre-school, and the conversations between waiting moms were sometimes hilarious to listen to, especially the bragging.
Babisodes is so cute, and from your stories I can say she’s really a smart one, having straight conversations and coming up with brilliant ideas.
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:54 am
There is little I adore more than precocious children using big words. Of course, I would prefer they be words like “delightful” over “diarrhea,” especially when used correctly, but it’s still pretty darn cute.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 7:58 am
Too funny!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 8:15 am
She OBVIOUSLY has some good genes to work from.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 8:19 am
how cute! diarrhea-ing is the funniest thing I have heard.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 8:51 am
I mean, how is it not lady like to be diarrhea-ing in your high heels?? LOL!! Luv it!!!!!!
Now she needs to learn to spray Chanel #5 after she makes a poo…’cause that’s what I hear all the rich, high society ladies do. BWAHAHAHA!!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 9:00 am
Hey – it may not be “lady like”, but at least she’s good at communicating about her physical needs. It’s a step in the right direction…right?
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:04 am
That’s too funny! I love big words on little kids.
I had a friend who was one of *those* parents. She was so bad that she got herself on the news when her three year old learned how to “read” (I quote it because it was word recognition, but it wasn’t really reading).
We went to visit them one day and her daughter and my son were playing with crayola playdough (I emphasize crayola for a reason) and she got very upset when Amy started mixing the colors because “that is expensive playdough and Amy has never done that before!”
My son was teaching Amy how to make playdough pizza and she got bent out of shape about it.
I don’t talk to her anymore.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 10:09 am
You know what…she and Miss Peach would have quite a Princess tea party…I don’t think anyone else would want to be there;)
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April 3rd, 2009 at 10:25 am
HAHA! She knew what she was talking about!
Her vocab is VERY impressive. Tommy was my only early talker so far. Ben only says his favorite words and not much else. Doesn’t bother me. Once they learn to talk it doesn’t stop!
JK
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April 3rd, 2009 at 10:38 am
I’m sooo not that parent either but my husband is a horrible bragger about our kids! Maybe I should have him read your blog post
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April 3rd, 2009 at 10:42 am
oh she is so cute…. yes kids sometimes just pick up things and say it without knowing the true meaning. my niece used to “promise” she will eat her chocolate b/c we will tell her if she finishes her meal fast we promoise to give her chocolate as dessert. so she picked up “promise”.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 11:39 am
I wasn’t like that with my kids but I am like that with my grand kids…well sort of…they don’t eat tofu or brussel sprouts and they gag at the smell of liver.
Diarrhea! Hahahaha! I just lied to my girls that their girls would not be like the boys with all their talk about poop and farting. Poor Becky…It is no longer enough for little Sammy to talk about poop all the time, he now makes up songs about it. She is having a terrible time curing him of it. Noah phoned me the other day cause he just had to talk to grandma RIGHT NOW! All he told me was that he had to poop. Hahahaha! Why do they think it is so great. It is a mystery.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 11:48 am
Poor you! At least you got a warning and were able to get her to the can before anything exploded all over the floor. And wow, what a smart little girl. Amazing.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 11:59 am
Good grief!!
She’s quite a handful, isn’t she!!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 1:13 pm
I agree. sometimes I want to point out the flaws that kids have when the parents make them out to be “perfect’. Uhg. Poor kids.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Aww.. I love kids that have words in their vocabs with more than one syllable! Doesn’t she know the rule? Mommy is ALWAYS the proprietor!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Ack! Well, at least she warned you about the diarrhea!
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I’m sorry she had diarrhea. I too hate parents who brag about their kids. I never knew how fast my kid was developing until others pointed it out. Then it scared me because I’m not ready for him to do things so early.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 2:20 pm
I’m going to be one of those parents and brag that my girls have never had diarrhea.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 2:22 pm
oh my stars she is adorable AND keeping you on your toes!
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Diarrhea Cha Cha Cha! Diarrhea Cha Cha Cha! That’s so funny, she called it! Maybe she’s gonna be a news anchor? Reporter?
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April 3rd, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Soooooooooo CUTE!
I notice that asset of Babisodes too…not that I’ve spoken to her, but by reading here…and well, I was like her when I was her age, so did my Mom say! LOL
She is a smart kid…what can we do? And the tofu has nothing to do with!
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:46 pm
OMG! Babisodes is cute so many times over.
And proprietor? Wow.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 4:40 pm
I loooooooooooooove big vocabularies. I hate bathroom talk.
Looks like I’m in a Catch 22 on this one!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 6:48 pm
You are going to have to be VERY careful what you say around that little tyke.
You never know in what situation you are going to hear it again.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Wow! You’ve got your hands full.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 7:36 pm
When you have a great, bright child you don’t have to tell others — they’ll see and hear it for themselves. At least that was always my theory. I wasn’t one of those parents either. I was just a mom trying to do the best she could raising three girls who were each different, but great in her own way. I had one much like Babisodes. I never did figure out where her vocabulary came from, but she had one dozzy of a vocabulary then and even today she uses words on occasion that has the rest of us running for a dictionary.
Cute picture. And yes she could have at least ditched the heels to discuss diarrhea.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Now, that’s one smart kiddo!
I remember my daughter, at 1.5 years of age, saying to me sarcastically at the dinner table after I had said something… “Now, that’s impressive.” I was blown away.
Just wait…my daughter is now 14, and I can’t even begin to tell you the words she uses…
)
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April 3rd, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Sounds like she’s going to tell you like it is!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 9:05 pm
That was adorable! It’s always puzzling where kids pick up words when we know we didn’t teach those words.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Ahhhh, I love the development of the child’s brain and comprehension!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Ahh — “ladylike” will come along in time.
I know what you mean about those parents. While I, naturally, think my kids are brilliant, I also assume that anything going wrong at any particular moment in time is a direct result of something they have done.
You’d be surprised how often I’m right.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 10:46 pm
I think those parents (and perhaps the kids themselves) are the ones that lose. May you always delight in what a special child you have. Thank you for the wonderful post
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April 3rd, 2009 at 10:47 pm
oh wow babisodes is one smart baby! i think those parents do that because they are too proud of their kids, not for themselves really but for the kids. and btw, i love the heels LOL
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April 3rd, 2009 at 10:54 pm
LOL! I think the heels added a ladylike touch to a decidedly unladylike behavior. This story made me laugh out loud, I love it!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 11:21 pm
I loved this! I love kid talk! One thing I never did was talk “baby talk” to my son. I always talked to him like I would anyone else … mostly because I felt like a fool talking baby talk. Consequently, he talks more like a grown up than a kid. It cracks me up. And most of the time, it is in context. And he uses a lot of words like “Actually…” “Apparently…” “Particularly….” So funny. They are sponges.
And I hate those type of moms.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 11:27 pm
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Ann
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April 3rd, 2009 at 11:57 pm
I can just imagine the exact things that happened between u and her reading this. So funny.
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April 4th, 2009 at 3:47 am
First of all, good grief you get a lot of comments! I want to be just like you when I grow up! Second…ROFLMAO!!! Too funny and cute…I’ve got a similar bodily function post on my blog!
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April 4th, 2009 at 6:41 am
That is hilarious! Good thing she does have an outstanding vocabulary.
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April 4th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Hysterical Sandy.. she is just hysterical… and the outfit is just the icing to the cake!!
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April 4th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
HAHAHAHA!
Well…at least she warned you! That’s something!
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April 4th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Maybe she’s just unusually sarcastic? That’s what I would have thought. (conch)
April 4th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
How cute! It’s amazing how quickly they learn everything.
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April 4th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Heh. So does she really know what it means or did she just get lucky with that one?
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April 5th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Things like this are so much cuter with sweet little girls like your daughter than they are with 10 year old overweight neighbor boys who scream out to their mother, loud enough to be heard through open windows on a warm summer day “Hey, Mooooom – I have Diiiiiiiiiie-aaaahh-REEEEEEEEE-uh”
– thereby confirming to my own children that they really don’t feel like playing with neighbor boy any time soon…
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April 5th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
oh my tooo funny
she sounds so cute! I love it
Being a speech pathologist I think words are about one of the most important things in this world!
Great post
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April 5th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Oh she’s a smart cookie, and she did warn you, didn’t she?
Both my kids were early talkers with fantastic vocabularies, but I’m just sharin’ that with you, okay LOL?
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April 5th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Very funny! Little kids sometimes seem like half angel and half animal.
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April 5th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
she’s a smart cookie. and she knows her diarrhea…
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April 5th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
That was hilarious!
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April 5th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
OK, I’m sorry that your sweet little girl was diarrhea-ing, but the rest of this is just hysterical.
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April 6th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Loved this post. The things kids say! And I hate to say it, but my sister is one of those parents. If we were in that Cheetos commercial together, she the one in the white jacket, who’s son speaks Mandarin and I’m the SAHM wiping her Cheeto dust on her jacket…
April 13th, 2009 at 10:57 am