Friday, April 7, 2017
Some musical offerings from Emet
Thursday, April 6, 2017
Conversations with Eden, age 3
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| Eden and Grampy during his retirement party! |
Eden: it's a friggin emet's diaper!
Me: what?!
Eden: it's a friggin emet's diaper.
Me: who taught you to say that?
Eden: you!
Me: when did I say that?
Eden: at Java monkey. You said what the friggin head!
3/26
Me (over a family breakfast, to Michael): Donald Trump's really spiraling out on this Obamacare thing.
Michael: Oh yeah?
Me: Yeah, first he blamed the Democrats which was ridiculous, and then--
Eden: Let's let bears eat Donald Trump!
Michael and me: ......
me: Who told you that?
Eden: God told me that.
me: God told you that??
Eden: Yeah! God said let's let bears eat all the bad guys, Donald Trump, Haman, and Pharaoh. But not the Jews.
Michael and me: ....... (!)
me: Let's be clear here... our family doesn't like capital punishment.
Michael: Yeah, we don't like to hurt people.
me: Instead of being eaten by bears, maybe we can send them all to a golf course forever.
Eden: I have a great idea! Let's lock him up in jail!
me: Uh... yeah, that's better.
Michael: Or they could stop doing bad things.
me: Yes, people who commit crimes should be punished for them... but not by being eaten by bears.
Michael (to me): so... what were you saying?
me: Oh, and then he tweeted to watch Fox News where they said Paul Ryan should resign, so effectively he's asking Paul Ryan to resign via Fox News.
Michael (shakes head)
Eden: Every time we say Donald Trump, he jumps into the TV to do an advertisement.
3/23
Eden: What pokemon is that? I want to see it!
me: Let's catch it first. (I show it to her after I catch it)
Eden: I wanted to see it BEFORE you catched it!
me: OK, I'll show you first next time.
(a few minutes later - I show her a pokemon before catching it)
Eden: You showed it to me before you catched it. That's good, mama!
3/10
Me: We're going to wear Cinderella on Sunday. Do you want to wear a different costume today so you don't mess up your dress?
Eden: NO!!! I WANT TO BE CINDERELLA!
Me: OK, you can do that, just be careful with your dress. Emet's going to dress up as Pikachu or R2D2 today so he doesn't mess up his costume.
Eden (wails): NOOOOOO!!!
Me: Why not?
Eden: HE'S GONNA BE THE MOUSE!!!! (wails, cries, throws lovey, flops over on the ground and refuses to move)
....
....
Me: I really like how you're not picking your nose and eating it right now.
3/6
Michael: OK, Eden, I have to go! Come say bye!
Eden: No!
Michael: I have to go to band rehearsal! But I'll be back in the morning.
Eden (holding up "phone" consisting of pink plastic rectangle with a sticker on it): You can't go. My app says you have to stay.
Michael (laughs): And what app is that?
Eden: Amazon.
Me: Eden, please put on your socks.
Eden: let's play a game.
Me: what game?
Eden: mommies pretend to be big kids and kids pretend to be the mama and then... The mama goes back to being a big kid and says "can you please put on my socks mama?" And then we put on the socks in real life.
Me: ok.. Great, now you can put on your socks in real life.
Eden: no, no. Now I say ''mama can you please put on my socks?" And you put them on in real life.
3/2
at positive parenting seminar:
Leader: What is the one thing your child wants most in the world?
Correct answer: Your attention.
Michael, speaking my exact thoughts: To watch a video.
the next day...
me: Last night Daddy and I went to a class to learn how to be good mommies and daddies. Do you think we are doing a good job?
Eden: Yeah.
me: The teacher asked us, 'what is the one thing your child wants most in the world?' So what is the one thing you want most in the world?
Eden: Love!
*melts*
....
10 minutes later...
Eden: Yeah.
me: The teacher asked us, 'what is the one thing your child wants most in the world?' So what is the one thing you want most in the world?
Eden: Love!
*melts*
....
10 minutes later...
Eden: (EPIC TANTRUM because we did not have time to watch a video)
3/1
me: Hey Eden! Let's play a game!
Eden: Like a game on your iPad?
me: Not on the ipad, a... first time game!
Eden: (looks quizzically)
me: So if you do what we ask the first time, ..... you win!
Eden: No.
Eden: Like a game on your iPad?
me: Not on the ipad, a... first time game!
Eden: (looks quizzically)
me: So if you do what we ask the first time, ..... you win!
Eden: No.
2/26
Eden: This is a box of hamentaschen! I'm gonna have JUST ONE in the car.
Nancy: Oh, what flavor hamentaschen?
Eden: They are all the same.
Nancy: What flavor is that? Strawberry? Apricot?
Eden: They are not a flavor. It is jelly in them.
Nancy: Well, you better save one for your dad!
Eden: No! My dad is gluten free!
(note: she used to call it "golden three")
2/23
On drive to school:
Me: you guys having fun back there?
Emet: no!!!
Me: aw, you aren't having fun?
Emet: no!!!
Me: what about you Eden, are you having fun?
Emet: no!!!!
Eden: I am having fun.
Emet: no!!!
Me: aw, you aren't having fun?
Emet: no!!!
Me: what about you Eden, are you having fun?
Emet: no!!!!
Eden: I am having fun.
2/16
Eden: what the hell was that doing?
Us: what did you say?!?
Eden: I said what the hell was that doing?
Us: we say "what the heck."
Eden: some kids say "what the hell."
Me: which kids?
Eden: well sometimes Amelia?
Me: who else?
Eden: me.
Us: what did you say?!?
Eden: I said what the hell was that doing?
Us: we say "what the heck."
Eden: some kids say "what the hell."
Me: which kids?
Eden: well sometimes Amelia?
Me: who else?
Eden: me.
2/15
(after overhearing Michael and me discussing penicillin allergies, which Eden and I both have--Emet is about to take his first dose)
Eden: I'm allergic to peanuts.
me: You're not allergic to peanuts.
Eden: Well, I'm a little allergic to peanuts.
me: You're not even a little bit allergic to peanuts.
Eden: Just a tiny bit allergic to peanuts.
me: If you were allergic to peanuts, you would be allergic to Bamba.
Eden (pauses)
Eden: I'm just a tiny bit allergic to Bamba.
me: If you were even a tiny bit allergic to Bamba, you couldn't eat Bamba anymore. So are you allergic to Bamba?
Eden (shakes head)
me: That's called cross-examination.
(pause)
...
Eden: I can't have any dinner because my tummy is about to hurt.
me: Your tummy is ABOUT to hurt?
Eden: Well, I can't have any dinner tomorrow because my tummy is starting to hurt. (takes a giant bite of pizza)
me: You're not allergic to peanuts.
Eden: Well, I'm a little allergic to peanuts.
me: You're not even a little bit allergic to peanuts.
Eden: Just a tiny bit allergic to peanuts.
me: If you were allergic to peanuts, you would be allergic to Bamba.
Eden (pauses)
Eden: I'm just a tiny bit allergic to Bamba.
me: If you were even a tiny bit allergic to Bamba, you couldn't eat Bamba anymore. So are you allergic to Bamba?
Eden (shakes head)
me: That's called cross-examination.
(pause)
...
Eden: I can't have any dinner because my tummy is about to hurt.
me: Your tummy is ABOUT to hurt?
Eden: Well, I can't have any dinner tomorrow because my tummy is starting to hurt. (takes a giant bite of pizza)
2/7
Eden: I love you mom.
Me: Awww! I love you too, sweetie!
Eden: but sometimes when you get mad I say I hate you.
Me: but you don't mean that!
Eden (laughs): yeah!
Me: Awww! I love you too, sweetie!
Eden: but sometimes when you get mad I say I hate you.
Me: but you don't mean that!
Eden (laughs): yeah!
Emmetty update
Our sweet baby is a toddler now! It's been awhile since a comprehensive update so we will try to document as much as we can about our delightful little boy--who gets mistaken for a girl all the time because his hair is so long and sometimes we pull it back with a rubber band.
He loves talking! Here's a list of his words that he says unprompted (when prompted he tries to say almost anything you ask him to say). For linguistic nerd like me - interestingly he tends to drop consonants altogether and replace with glottal stops rather than other consonants. Eden used to replace with other consonants (namely d/t). He also uses diphthongs a lot to replace consonants.
His speech is expanding by the day though, so we need to throw this list up before it becomes obsolete! And before you read the full list, check out these adorable videos:
He loves to throw things. If you hand him something, you should expect him to wrestle it away from you and cast it away with gusto. I have had several incidents with open water bottles and food pouches.
He also loves putting things together/taking them apart, particularly screwing the tops on pouches and water bottles.
He does cleanup march - and in fact listens very well when you ask him to do simple tasks! Better than our three-year-old :)
He loves washing hands and brushing teeth, and he tries to pull a chair up to stand on it to wash his hands like Eden does. He loves to stand on the stool and run the water and put his toothbrush under it, then put it in his mouth, then do it again, over and over.
He loves to take off running in a direction and will keep doing it repeatedly, and will run into the street if you let him.
He can climb stairs up and down!
He can have conversations too!
me: Ready to go home and see daddy?
Emet: Daddy!
me: and Eden?
Emet: No.
Usually when you ask him something he'll respond with the last word in the sentence. And he strings 2-word phrases like "up daddy" and "mama no no no"
He loves talking! Here's a list of his words that he says unprompted (when prompted he tries to say almost anything you ask him to say). For linguistic nerd like me - interestingly he tends to drop consonants altogether and replace with glottal stops rather than other consonants. Eden used to replace with other consonants (namely d/t). He also uses diphthongs a lot to replace consonants.
His speech is expanding by the day though, so we need to throw this list up before it becomes obsolete! And before you read the full list, check out these adorable videos:
Full word list that we can think of:
- beh-ee (baby)
- baaww (ball, a favorite word to describe all circles)
- na (banana)
- ba-ee (bar, for a strawberry bar for breakfast)
- bash (bath)
- ba-ey (bear)
- bey (bed)
- babu (bottle or cup of milk - it's more like ba-bvvv - bilabial fricative!)
- buh (book)
- buh-bai (bye bye - w/wave)
- tah (cat)
- eez (cheese)
- dee-ro (cheerio)
- daddy
- dah (down)
- ba ba ba (drum or other percussion instrument)
- dih-dih (Eden!! It's so funny because that's what Bubbe's little brother called her too!! Her first name is Linda)
- eet (feet)
- aas (glasses)
- tai (guitar)
- haa (hat)
- huh (help- with sign)
- hi
- hah (hot)
- mama
- bvvvv (more, with sign)
- no
- no-uu (nose)
- bas or ba-see (paci)
- la la la (pig, or the book "Moo Baa La la la")
- eez (please)
- ay (play)
- bup (poop, often right after pooping!)
- ba-ee (potty)
- bosh (pouch)
- buhsh (puffs)
- oos (shoes)
- oooh (spoon)
- ta-ee (sorry, usually only prompted)
- ta! (stop)
- tees (teeth)
- da-du (thank you)
- dis (this, which he says ALL THE TIME)
- uh (up)
- wawa (water or bottle of water)
He also does animal sounds like
- Ruff ruff or bow wow (dog)
- Mvvvvv (cow)
- Bvvvvvvvv (elephant, with hand motion)
- Row (cat)
- Baa (sheep)
- Eeek! or La LA LA (pig; "eek" is also used for frogs)
- Roar (lion)
- Aaaak! (duck)
- Ha, huff! (rhinoceros)
He loves to throw things. If you hand him something, you should expect him to wrestle it away from you and cast it away with gusto. I have had several incidents with open water bottles and food pouches.
He also loves putting things together/taking them apart, particularly screwing the tops on pouches and water bottles.
He does cleanup march - and in fact listens very well when you ask him to do simple tasks! Better than our three-year-old :)
He loves washing hands and brushing teeth, and he tries to pull a chair up to stand on it to wash his hands like Eden does. He loves to stand on the stool and run the water and put his toothbrush under it, then put it in his mouth, then do it again, over and over.
He loves to take off running in a direction and will keep doing it repeatedly, and will run into the street if you let him.
He can climb stairs up and down!
He can have conversations too!
me: Ready to go home and see daddy?
Emet: Daddy!
me: and Eden?
Emet: No.
Usually when you ask him something he'll respond with the last word in the sentence. And he strings 2-word phrases like "up daddy" and "mama no no no"
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