Toddler Language

It's funny how the onset of a toddler forces you to realize your own little behaviours that you NEVER noticed before. For example my son will burst into a song out of nowhere and will walk around performing little tasks while humming some melody I have never heard and can only assume he invented. So I made the mistake of saying to my husband, "I don't know where he (the cub) gets this spontaneous singing from". Almost 30 minutes later I am doing something,  I can't remember what, and my husband says "Really, you don't know where he gets it from?" Apparently, at that exact moment I had burst into a random song that I'd invented based on what I was doing at the time. Thanks Husband for impolitely pointing out to me that the cub gets that behavior from me. There has been others and each time it has been very funny to realize that he does what he see us do.

Over the past months the cub has been discovering words and basically creating his own language. I mainly fault......

                   This book                                                  and                                              this man



Here are my reasons why.......

Bedtime consists of us bathing the cub, reading a book, and saying our prayers. The cub's latest favorite book is Brown Bear, Brown Ber What Do You See. This is mainly due to the fact that the husband makes animal noises for each of the animals as he reads the book. The cub LOVES this. Well, here is a list of names for the each animal according to the cub:

Bear                    Roar
Cat                      Meow
Dog                     Woof Woof
Fish                     Blurp Blurp ( it's a bubble gurgling noise that fish make in the water)


If you say the real names he understands you mean bear but anytime he sees a bear he calls it Roar. All dogs are woof woof except our dog Pancho who is lovingly called Dog by the cub. Oh and the snack food Goldfish and the movie Finding Nemo are also called blurp blurp.

Other words mysteriously formed on their own.
Blanket                              Bla
Clean                                 Wash
Bathe                                 Wash
Grandma (maternal)          Nanny    (this is only interesting because we call her Nana)
Grandma (paternal)           Mommy  (perhaps because the husband calls her this but we call her Abuela most of the time)
Mommy (me)                    My mommy

Then some words makes sense
Uncle                                Tio (spanish for uncle)
Pot Pot                              Training Potty
Light                                  Light or Luz (light in spanish)

The inspiration behind this blog happened this morning when my adorable little not yet two year old son said to me "bla wash". Well, he has learned the art of commands. So, before I left for work this morning I placed bla in the washing machine. He was right it was time for a good cleaning.