More Zoe catchphrases
This is an update of this post from September 2017.
Good morning, lovely Mummy and lovely Daddy, my clock says seven... one... three. (with variations in the last two numbers). It's remarkable how this one has remained almost unchanged for over two years, just becoming more polite and... lovelier (previously "Hello, Mummy and Daddy, my clock says seven... one... three.") She still speaks the digits individually, even though she can read 2-digit numbers correctly most of the time.
Best! Multiple times per day, sometimes even per hour, Zoe will hide somewhere (sometimes in a very token way, like ducking her head behind the back of the chair) and jump out and exclaim "Best!" It seems to be a kind of nickname or title for me, Alex and Bethany; sometimes she'll say to us "Thank you, best" or "See you later, best." She likes to do this so much that sometimes she'll explicitly ask us to let her go into a room first and wait a few seconds before coming in ourselves so that she has time to hide and jump out.
If I could cuddle kiss you much I give you thousand cuddle kisses." I don't know where the weird grammar in this comes from (her syntax is normal the rest of the time), but she says it quite a lot with exactly the same wording every time. Bethany sometimes says it too. Zoe often says it when saying goodnight or when saying goodbye before school in the morning.
Yay, same! This is more of a shared Bethany-and-Zoe catchphrase. They use it the way people use "Jinx" or similar, to comment on when they say the same thing at the same time. They say it in quite a drawn-out way ("Yaaaay, saaaaame") and in a bit of a baby voice, so it sounds more like "Yay, shame."
Good morning, lovely Mummy and lovely Daddy, my clock says seven... one... three. (with variations in the last two numbers). It's remarkable how this one has remained almost unchanged for over two years, just becoming more polite and... lovelier (previously "Hello, Mummy and Daddy, my clock says seven... one... three.") She still speaks the digits individually, even though she can read 2-digit numbers correctly most of the time.
Best! Multiple times per day, sometimes even per hour, Zoe will hide somewhere (sometimes in a very token way, like ducking her head behind the back of the chair) and jump out and exclaim "Best!" It seems to be a kind of nickname or title for me, Alex and Bethany; sometimes she'll say to us "Thank you, best" or "See you later, best." She likes to do this so much that sometimes she'll explicitly ask us to let her go into a room first and wait a few seconds before coming in ourselves so that she has time to hide and jump out.
If I could cuddle kiss you much I give you thousand cuddle kisses." I don't know where the weird grammar in this comes from (her syntax is normal the rest of the time), but she says it quite a lot with exactly the same wording every time. Bethany sometimes says it too. Zoe often says it when saying goodnight or when saying goodbye before school in the morning.
Yay, same! This is more of a shared Bethany-and-Zoe catchphrase. They use it the way people use "Jinx" or similar, to comment on when they say the same thing at the same time. They say it in quite a drawn-out way ("Yaaaay, saaaaame") and in a bit of a baby voice, so it sounds more like "Yay, shame."