Kiddo Speak

Overheard around the house this week.....

Annika: "Mama, I wish I had a green iris like you. Because green is my very favorite color." Then later, "Maybe someday my blue iris will turn green."

Daniel: "Aaaaaaaagghhhh!" (said in a very happy, joyful voice, especially when standing on top of a table).

Annika: "I just can't stop asking questions. It is very hard to stop talking. I cannot stop asking questions because it is too hard."

Daniel: "Up-ba?" (obviously, "up" is a two-syllable word. He states it first as a question and it quickly spirals into a demand).

Annika: "I am so very happy that we joined the Y. There are two Ys. One is in Oviedo and one is in Blanchard. The one in Oviedo has a top on the pool, and the one in Blanchard does not have a top on the pool. When can we go to the Y? Can we go right now?"

Daniel: "No. No No. Eeeehh!" (you can have whole conversations with Daniel, asking him a whole serious of questions with his opinion. "Yes" means "the absence of no.")

Annika: "An iPhone is a half-phone, half-computer. It is things for computers and things for phones. Can I play the paper-toss game on your iPhone? Can I spell Annika H. on the iPhone? Can I take a picture of you on the iPhone?"

Daniel: "Baaaaaaaa!!!!!" (a super-duper wuper excited voice, said while running around with the iPhone, chewing on the carrying case.)

What have you overheard in your world this week??

Words and Work

Daniel is really starting to talk more! Now that he has mastered eating four-course meals, running at full speed, and climbing up any vertical object, he's decided to turn his attention to the fine art of speech. Will and I came up with the words he is saying - he's a social little guy!

Daniel's Words

All Done
Up
Here You Go
Thank You
Hello!
Hi!
Bye-bye!
Uh-Oh!
Yay!
Mama
Dada
Kitty
Annika

And on a completely different note, I found a hilarious description of the Top 10 Worst Jobs on one of the blogs that I read:

http://science-professor.blogspot.com/2007/12/top-10-worst-jobs.html

This got me thinking - I have had aspects of a lot of jobs that I didn't like, but I have never had a "bad" job. Even my first job, where I contracted some weird nail fungus (because people in the 1870s didn't wear gloves...), was actually an awesome gig at a museum where I had worked for the whole previous year for free and was now getting paid.

What is your worst job ever?