In Mother Words

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My son doesn’t talk too clearly yet, and like a lot of toddlers uses some interesting word choices. Such as this morning’s conversation:

Him: “Me need hoo ker.”

Me: “You need what?”

Him: “Me need hookER!”

It took me a minute to realize that last night he had been playing with one of those punching bag balloons and using it to hook onto things, driving his sister nuts. This, of course, was his “hooker”.

Good mom that I am, of course, I asked him if there was something I needed to know.

edited to add:

He’s still at it, but now the “hooker” is an 8 ft long flexible pencil he got for Christmas. I just about lost it when my husband was coiling up the pencil and my son started going on about “Daddy tie up me hooker!”

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“My mommy doesn’t like… eating poison” – on a worksheet my daughter filled out in preschool.

“You’ve ruined my life” – Sara, age 5. I understand this repeats in the teenage years. - contributed by Anna

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contributed by Crystal

I feel like such a forgetful goofball sometimes. Can’t find my shoes half the time and it’s not always because my daughter took them for dressup. And of course they’re often right where I looked early on. How do they do that?

But the worst is when I start looking for something I’m already holding. Happens a lot with my car keys. They’re either in my hand already or so deep in my purse that I thinkI’ve reached into an alternate dimension to get them.

You know, that could explain a lot. Maybe it’s not ‘Mommy brain’. Maybe it’s the alternate realities playing tricks on me.

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contributed by Ellen

A lot of the kids in my son’s preschool class are already getting concerned about their appearance. My kid? Not a chance!

He loves to dress himself, and it’s just so funny to see the results. Nothing matches, and he has no fear of his sister’s dressup clothes. I’m guessing I should be glad he hasn’t quite insisted on wearing those to school yet.

Boys clothes just don’t have the color range girls do, but its amazing how mixed up he can make them. Lime green shirt with red pants. And I didn’t know that different shades of blue could look so funny together.

But know what? I love it! He’s being himself and I don’t have to explain why we aren’t buying a particular name brand.

Can I keep him like that as a teen? Not the weird fashion, but lack of concern for name brands? Please?

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