wrong words

[deird_lj]

I'm pretty good at most aspects of Nephew Vocabulary.
(Boys burping at the dinner table should be followed by "scuse" as a child-friendly substitute for "excuse me", the orange-and-black marbles are "tiger marbles", and apparently singing a scale starting from "Lah" and going up is "the tricky song"...)

I do, however, occasionally forget that some of my standard terminology is not what the boys are used to.

Hence Caleb cracking up laughing last night and proclaiming "Auntie Deird, you talk funny!" when I asked him if he needed to "use the loo" rather than "go to the toilet".

What with that, and my periodic slipping into a pseudo-Irish accent last night, I provided much amusement for my nephew...



(In other news - it's Spring! Yay! *dances through blossom-covered trees*)

Comments

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Oh, that scene is just delightful to imagine. So cute.

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Awwwwww.

Man, I ENJOY vicariously havin' cute toddler time through you. ENJOY.


And, oh, see, I'd been wondering about that recently - if Australians would call like this time of year spring cause it's like spring weather here or fall cause it's fall for us. Which...don't know why it would be the other way, but, well. I'm ignorant.

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Not to take all the fun out of it, but introducing the boys to words they don't know, or that they only know in a different context is made of win! The more words the better. The funnier the words, the more likely they will come to love language play, the way that you do! The gift that keeps on giving, you see?

There is all this boring research about brain development and language, but you are completely on the right track (as I suspect you already know).

[keldaryth.livejournal.com]

Yay for spring. And Buffy Icons. This is Yuhan, Alex's BF.

Consider yourself friended :)