"don't worry that it's not good enough / for anyone else to hear / just sing / sing a song"

[larryhammer]

TBD is three and a half, and spent half the past month looking forward to being Spiderman for Halloween.

Achievements unlocked this month include: telling stories, joy in roller coasters and other fair rides,
"I'm teasing you!", dominoes, and cutting up hot dogs with a knife (while closely supervised). (I'm not sure if it's an achievement, there is also starting to consistently respond (especially with a nod) to tv characters addressing the viewer.)

Following up on last month, I've come to realize that all interrogative pronouns are used as verbals: "What you say?" "Where we going?" "How we get there?" -- it wasn't until verbs were consistently used in statements and other questions ("Are we going in the big car?") that this usage stood out, though it had been there for a long time.

Other language use of note: there's increasing use of several general-use nonsense words, which can be names, places, objects, or verbs. Totia (which first showed up as the name of an imaginary friend), sing-sing-song, and hohala are the most common, but there are many others, both two and three syllables.

Other behaviors I haven't had much time to note down (crunchy worktime), though transitioning to the next room at preschool (and consequently playing with a larger pool of friends) and to initially sleeping in own room at night have both resulted in feeling like a bigger kid than before. But I did get down some talking, talking:

"The animals that are babies, they all cry?"

TBD: "Jennifer's kids who are grownups, they went into a different house?"
Janni: "They did. But when you're a grownup you can stay here or move into your own house. It's up to you."
"I don't -want- to go."
"Then you don't have to."
"How you have enough room in mommy and daddy's room for me?"
"Maybe we'll just put a bigger bed in your room."
:pulls down pants: "Look at my butt!"

(talking about dressing as Spiderman for Halloween)
"Then I will be a superhero. I will tell people, 'Don't be mean' and 'No fighting.' And I will climb buildings."

"After all the no-school days and school days, I'll be big."

(TBD buries self under blanket on top of me)
TBD: "I'm a baby in Daddy's tummy."
Me: "This baby is heavy. When's my due date?"
Janni: "You'll have to ask her."
TBD: "I'm a baby can't talk!"

(while looking at the farm-machinery page of a book of truck pictures and talking about what vehicle we'd each like to drive)
Me: "Can't I drive the sheep this time?"
TBD: "I don't see a steering wheel."
(said as if this was a conclusive argument)

"If a turtle has a shell covering its butt and private parts, how it poops and pees?"

Many important questions. We answer as best we can.

---L.

Subject quote from "Sing," Joe Raposo (yes, it was written for Sesame Street).

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

So adorable! And you've come to the questions when it's hard not to laugh at kid-logic.

[sovay]

Totia (which first showed up as the name of an imaginary friend), sing-sing-song, and hohala are the most common, but there are many others, both two and three syllables.

Do they have any regularized use or are they all interchangeable?

(TBD buries self under blanket on top of me)
TBD: "I'm a baby in Daddy's tummy."
Me: "This baby is heavy. When's my due date?"
Janni: "You'll have to ask her."
TBD: "I'm a baby can't talk!"

Difficult to argue with!

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Turtle carries the bathroom with him.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:pulls down pants: "Look at my butt!"

You know, I've been in some inane arguments that I feel may have gone better if one of us just did that.

[larryhammer]

That answer might work if TBD hadn't seen turtles pooping (more than once -- neighbor does desert tortoise rescue).

[larryhammer]

TBD claims there are distinctions, but what they might is completely opaque to us. Vaguely scatological sounding ones are more likely to be used as names when teasing, is the only pattern I can discern.

It did, indeed, shut down the discussion.

[larryhammer]

Janni was about to go on with more reassurance that we're TBD's forever family when that derail happened. We are Very Three.

[larryhammer]

Making sense of the world with limited experience is HARD.

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

It's neat to see how conceptions of time keep changing.

[larryhammer]

It is!