BS: Watch out! it's Raisin Sharp!

Subject: BS: Watch out! it's Raisin Sharp!
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 03:25 PM

what my 4 year old daughter said to the 2year old daughter not long ago..

since then Ive started saying things like 'he's got a mind as sharp as a raisin'

a few other Anna speech inventions were - when she was two and going outside and looking at the trees moving in the wind.. 'it's Window'

or if raining - 'it's Rain on'

one day we were blowing bubbles outside, and a few days later,
we got her some marbles to play with and she called them 'marbubbles'

the younger daughter Maia has her own quirky language which even the
older one has started to speak - and sometimes translates for her..

ie. dody dad? (story)
   moomi (music) so when they want moomi - it means we have to put on the Queen Ida zydeco record (it has to be Queen Ida) and they
get naky (naked) and dance around (often with balloons).


One wonders if this is how cultures get started..
(2 and 4 year olds copying each other)

'Hey Dad, we're mailboxes!'

I turned around and both were standing there with opened books (cover up)on top of their heads.

Petr

Subject: RE: BS: Watch out! it's Raisin Sharp!
From: Amos
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 03:45 PM

Sounds like a lot of hell raisin going on at your place, Petr!! I love it.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Watch out! it's Raisin Sharp!
From: PoppaGator
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 04:03 PM

Great stuff ~ this makes me think back to when our now-adult offspring were cute little tots.

A favorite, never-to-be-forgotten innocent kiddie malapropopism ~ Cass extending his middle finger towards kid brother Mickey and saying "Hey, Man ~ Lucky You!"

Subject: RE: BS: Watch out! it's Raisin Sharp!
From: gnu
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 04:44 PM

Awwww... heheheheee!

Subject: RE: BS: Watch out! it's Raisin Sharp!
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 06:45 PM

I forgot to add.. the other day Anna told Maia 'Im going to make you a sandwich Maia'..

(she had never done this before, even for herself - so I had to see..)

the sandwich ended up being a maple syrup sandwich. Probably used half the bottle, and most of it spilt on the table.

When my wife who works from home a couple days a week, turned around once Anna came in to the living room carrying a bowl of cornflakes..

except it was a huge bowl, like one of those round casserole dishes
full to the brim with milk and cornflakes.. (used a whole box and probably a litre of milk.) - needless to say most of it was wasted.

(Its not like we dont feed them either.. that's another story altogether).

yeah.. it is busy exhausting time but we love it.
P

Subject: RE: BS: Watch out! it's Raisin Sharp!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 07:00 PM

All children if left to their own devices will set a pattern for their own lives... we set examples for them to live by and hope they follow them (even if we are not a full dollar/shilling or whatever, ourselves). Guide your children carefully as their future is in your hands... what they see they learn whether it is right or wrong. Hope YOU/THEY are on the right track.... best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Watch out! it's Raisin Sharp!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 08:50 PM

When my son was around three, he went through a period of assuming all nouns ending in "s" sounds were plurals. So, using three-year-old logic, he "depluralized" them. One slice of cheese was a "chee". One item of clothes was a "clo". One side of his nose was a "no".

He grew out of it, but I still jokingly call a slice of cheese a "chee" upon occasion.

Subject: RE: BS: Watch out! it's Raisin Sharp!
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 09:30 PM

That's so 3 year old logical, BDL! How inventive and fun.

petr, aren't they fun?! I love that "raisin" sharp! My five year old grandson comes up with all kinds of ideas which give me such a new perspective on the world. They certainly make fun leaps when it comes to language:

Morgan asked what I was doing when he heard me peeing in the toilet. I told him I was "peeing" but the proper word was "urinate." He said, "myinnate?" So I had to explain that it was not "you're" or "your."

Subject: RE: BS: Watch out! it's Raisin Sharp!
From: Bert
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 10:22 PM

But katmeluv, Grandma's don't have to use the correct word. It's their job to teach them all the words that the parents will hate them using.

I've got Dante saying 'Bugger off' to everyone that leaves.

Subject: RE: BS: Watch out! it's Raisin Sharp!
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 10:48 PM

LOL, Bert, thanks! I did shock him and made him laugh so much, yesterday, when I called the computer a "fart face" and the first word of that is a word I do not like nor use very much! He thought it was hilarious!

Subject: RE: BS: Watch out! it's Raisin Sharp!
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 12:11 PM

Our culture puts out a lot of negative stuff about small children - like calling them rugrats. I'm happy to hear from all you parents who enjoy your kids.

My newspaper used to carry an unpleasant cartoon called 'Rugrats.' The paper did a poll about which cartoons to carry. It received 15,000 votes, and 14,000 said to get rid of 'Rugrats.'

Subject: RE: BS: Watch out! it's Raisin Sharp!
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 01:11 PM

thanks - kat. You just reminded me of another one.
(I'm trying to write these down as sometimes they are hilariously funny
and yes Im told it all goes too fast)

A couple of months ago the whole family went through a bout of diarrhea.
I just picked up Anna from her babi's (grandmas) and she ran to the bathroom saying she needed to poo.

So as she was sitting on the potty I asked
'do you still have diarrhea?' she said 'huh?'
I realized she didnt know the meaning so I asked
'Is your poo runny?'

she looked down for a bit and said 'It's not moving!'

Subject: RE: BS: Watch out! it's Raisin Sharp!
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 01:18 PM

the other thing I wanted to add.. was Anna's almost constant
singing and inventive lyrics..

rhyming: there was a phase a few months when she rhymed everything.

like 'Can I have some water.. hotter, daughter?'

or 'Can I have some more ketchup Mum, Hum, Some, Dumb?

(it was like living with a Beatnik)


the other day she was singing --- and I honestly think it was pure
stream of consciousness type..

possum bread possum bread,
someones going to buy you
a cauliflower head..

(there was quite a bit more that was all I could make out
and if you ask her to repeat it it will be something different

Subject: RE: BS: Watch out! it's Raisin Sharp!
From: open mike
Date: 09 Jan 09 - 03:00 PM

ouch! beware of those raisins!

my daughters had "coined" some of their own words "kid-isms"
many years ago...

bananas were nee-nums
and zippers were yipsers or zwippers

my grandson, only 2 months old now,
has not come up with any kid-isms... yet

Subject: RE: BS: Watch out! it's Raisin Sharp!
From: Becca72
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 11:27 AM

My nephew Jonathan was learning the Pledge of Allegiance in school and so was asked to recite it for the family (he must have been about 5 years old). He stood up and went through the whole thing, getting to the "one nation, under god, indivisible..." and in a stage whisper leaned over and said "Auntie, that means no one can see you"

Subject: RE: BS: Watch out! it's Raisin Sharp!
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 11:36 AM

hhahahaha I love it.