An applepost
I was just reading one of Neuromancer's excellent email updates and realised how fast life is going by and how little of it I've been recording on LJ.
One thing have I particularly been meaning to relate was how our appleboy prince_eldarion got a bit confused about words a few weeks ago.
We have been pretty strict about just giving him water as his main drink with food (in addition to lots of breast milk of course). Anyway a couple of times for a treat & for extra sustenance we gave him water mixed with apple juice, which we explained was applewater.
El obviously liked this very much - he clearly preferred it to ordinary water - and he asked for more applewater, in fact he still does. However it turned out that he had made a perfectly logical - but incorrect - deduction about the meaning of the 'apple' prefix. We could tell because he suddenly wanted:
- not just milk but applemilk
- not just ordinary corned beef but applebeef
- etc.. including once not just his regular mummy but his applemummy.
This applephase lasted quite a while despite our explaining that an applesomething was not in fact a really good something but a something with apple in it... and he has just about moved on, fingers crossed. But he was a particularly endearing applebaby while it lasted.
One thing have I particularly been meaning to relate was how our appleboy prince_eldarion got a bit confused about words a few weeks ago.
We have been pretty strict about just giving him water as his main drink with food (in addition to lots of breast milk of course). Anyway a couple of times for a treat & for extra sustenance we gave him water mixed with apple juice, which we explained was applewater.
El obviously liked this very much - he clearly preferred it to ordinary water - and he asked for more applewater, in fact he still does. However it turned out that he had made a perfectly logical - but incorrect - deduction about the meaning of the 'apple' prefix. We could tell because he suddenly wanted:
- not just milk but applemilk
- not just ordinary corned beef but applebeef
- etc.. including once not just his regular mummy but his applemummy.
This applephase lasted quite a while despite our explaining that an applesomething was not in fact a really good something but a something with apple in it... and he has just about moved on, fingers crossed. But he was a particularly endearing applebaby while it lasted.