Recent Arthurisms
The other night while we were at the car dealership signing the contract, Arthur was looking at all the stuff on the manager's desk and read the word 'DEMO' as 'dee-mo' to rhyme with 'Nemo', which we thought was quite clever. Apparently the manager did as well since, just before we were leaving she asked me, "So, do you think he's, you know, gifted or something?" While I replied, "Well, I'm not really sure what 'gifted' means", I was actually thinking, "Well, duhhhh."
While driving home with Arthur after his first day of preschool, we passed by The Beer Store (a specifically Ontarian phenomenon) and he read it as 'The Bear Store'. After I corrected him, he has been going around pointing out the beer store when he sees it. However, fortunately he insists that he doesn't like beer, but that it is only for grownups, but he would like to visit.
Arthur has taken to playing around with phonetics, ever since he realized that Julia's mom says 'tow-MAT-tow' where we say 'tow-MAY-tow' while we were out east. He has also taken to playing around with 'potato' as 'po-TAAAA-to'. I pointed out much to his amusement that while we say 'ba-NAN-nuh', the Wiggles say 'ba-NAH-nuh'. I also blame the Wiggles (or Julia's dad) for his recent spate of R-dropping at the end of words like 'computah'. Of course, if you actually say 'computah' or 'ba-nah-nuh' in conversation, he will be very quick to correct you!
Yesterday he ran up to me while I was sitting on the couch, leapt onto my lap and said sweetly in a singsong voice, "Orlando Blooooooooooom". After I finished howling with laughter, I consulted with Julia who informed me that it was because he had been watching his Scene It Jr. DVD, which is completely beyond his age level but with which he is strangely fascinated. He got it at Wendy's on the day my parents brought him down to Windsor shortly after we moved, and is completely addicted, and wants to get the 'red Scene It DVD game' that he saw at Chapters sometime later. We're really going to have to get him one of the kids' versions for Christmas, if not before. Every night at bedtime he asks me to tell him stories about himself as various animals, having various adventures, and at the end of each story he invariably adds, "And then they went and got a red Scene It DVD game." The end.
While driving home with Arthur after his first day of preschool, we passed by The Beer Store (a specifically Ontarian phenomenon) and he read it as 'The Bear Store'. After I corrected him, he has been going around pointing out the beer store when he sees it. However, fortunately he insists that he doesn't like beer, but that it is only for grownups, but he would like to visit.
Arthur has taken to playing around with phonetics, ever since he realized that Julia's mom says 'tow-MAT-tow' where we say 'tow-MAY-tow' while we were out east. He has also taken to playing around with 'potato' as 'po-TAAAA-to'. I pointed out much to his amusement that while we say 'ba-NAN-nuh', the Wiggles say 'ba-NAH-nuh'. I also blame the Wiggles (or Julia's dad) for his recent spate of R-dropping at the end of words like 'computah'. Of course, if you actually say 'computah' or 'ba-nah-nuh' in conversation, he will be very quick to correct you!
Yesterday he ran up to me while I was sitting on the couch, leapt onto my lap and said sweetly in a singsong voice, "Orlando Blooooooooooom". After I finished howling with laughter, I consulted with Julia who informed me that it was because he had been watching his Scene It Jr. DVD, which is completely beyond his age level but with which he is strangely fascinated. He got it at Wendy's on the day my parents brought him down to Windsor shortly after we moved, and is completely addicted, and wants to get the 'red Scene It DVD game' that he saw at Chapters sometime later. We're really going to have to get him one of the kids' versions for Christmas, if not before. Every night at bedtime he asks me to tell him stories about himself as various animals, having various adventures, and at the end of each story he invariably adds, "And then they went and got a red Scene It DVD game." The end.