Moments hard to explain but important to remember...
Me, in the bathtub to annoying toddler: "Go and fetch your ball, will you? Where is the ball?"
Moments later, I see our 80x80cm green fitball enter the bathroom with only the very top of toddler's head behind it. <3
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I am carrying a very tired toddler up the stairs in the evening. So far, she has been using simple words only, with the occasional two word sentence. A neighbour stops for a chat and won't stop talking. I am too polite to press on and carry toddler in this position or that, hoping for her patience.
Toddler, quietly in sing-song voice: "Hunger... hunger... hunger..." (which is how you would express that you're hungry in German). Then, suddenly losing her patience very loudly, very clearly: "Le-ber-wurst-brot!" (bread with liver sausage)
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Several times a day:
Toddler, taking the register, pointing at each of us in turn and then herself: "Mama, Mommy, TODDLER (=her name)!" sounding more triumphant every time this happens.
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Me, concentrated in front of the laptop: "Ich brauche..." (=I need...)
Toddler, completely convinced: "Rudö," (=Baby Language for "Slide") hoping for a youtube video of children on the playground.
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Me, in a sing-song voice: "Do you want to take a ba-ath?"
Toddler, in exactly the same sing-song tone: "No-o!"
Moments later, I see our 80x80cm green fitball enter the bathroom with only the very top of toddler's head behind it. <3
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I am carrying a very tired toddler up the stairs in the evening. So far, she has been using simple words only, with the occasional two word sentence. A neighbour stops for a chat and won't stop talking. I am too polite to press on and carry toddler in this position or that, hoping for her patience.
Toddler, quietly in sing-song voice: "Hunger... hunger... hunger..." (which is how you would express that you're hungry in German). Then, suddenly losing her patience very loudly, very clearly: "Le-ber-wurst-brot!" (bread with liver sausage)
~*~
Several times a day:
Toddler, taking the register, pointing at each of us in turn and then herself: "Mama, Mommy, TODDLER (=her name)!" sounding more triumphant every time this happens.
~*~
Me, concentrated in front of the laptop: "Ich brauche..." (=I need...)
Toddler, completely convinced: "Rudö," (=Baby Language for "Slide") hoping for a youtube video of children on the playground.
~*~
Me, in a sing-song voice: "Do you want to take a ba-ath?"
Toddler, in exactly the same sing-song tone: "No-o!"