The Helpful Baby is being poetical again. He was helping me by carrying a shopping bag. So now that shopping bag is officially named the Helpful Bag. I know there's a term of rhetoric for this construction, but I can't remember it. When he switches the light on, it's the Helpful Light too, and he opens the Helpful Door using the Helpful Key, often ( Read more... )

The Helpful Baby is doing interesting things with grammar. We had 'bird-way' the other day, meaning 'the bird has flown away' and 'car-way' with emphatic pointing meaning 'the car went that way'. He gets a huge amount of mileage out of 'too' and tends to refer to himself in the third person. So Philomythulus takes a cracker out of the packet. Cub ( Read more... )

"Toklat! Toklat! Toklat TO ME ( Read more... )

- This Christmas has involved 300% more throwing up than I would like. Nothing like families coming together for sharing of bugs. Fortunately this one seems to have been very shortlived, and hopefully that's the traditional Christmas illness over now ( Read more... )

( Because I'm never going to get tired of posting about the development of language )

Today's new word of the day: cuddle. This is pretty adorable all by itself, but to get the full picture you have to imagine him growling the word at the top of his voice while launching himself at me like a small missile. A small missile of PURE CUTE ( Read more... )

Cub knows how to swear. I guess it was inevitable, and at least all he says is 'oh damn'. You see, today he fell into a small pond. It was so covered in algae and weeds that it looked exactly like lawn, and though I shouted for him to stop, I wasn't close enough to grab him and he didn't believe me over the apparent evidence of his eyes that he ( Read more... )

Cub is continuing to do entertaining things with language. ( lots of baby talk )

Current toddler word is, I'm sorry to say, 'piss'. He means peas, which are one of his favourite things to eat when they're frozen, but once they're cooked he's not interested. I don't know why this is ( Read more... )

It's nine thirty in the morning, I've been up since five, and there are potatoes in my washing machine ( Read more... )