Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Kids Say: No! No! No! No! Snow!

We're not against snow - this is how my youngest daughter started saying "snow" back in November and December.  When she first picked it up she would say, very excitedly, "No!  No!  No!  No!"  A bit confusing for us if we didn't know what she was looking at.  But we caught on eventually.  Sometime mid-December I caught a few lispy "s" sounds with it, making it "shno," and once very distinctly she called out, "Snow!"...then reverted back to "No!"  Recently, when we saw snow falling she added, "Nonen" (snowing) to her repertoire.  Sometimes we get the "s" for "Snow!" but mostly it's still "No!"  My oldest daughter was the same when she was learning to talk - "No!  No!  No!  No!"  Always very excited and oh so full of wonder even before they could say it properly.  Comes in handy living up north where we get drifts of snow taller than they are!
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  1. Asta2/23/2011 9:12 PM

    The prospect of deciphering kidspeak makes me a little nervous. "Nonen" for snowing? So cute! ...but also impossible to figure out unless you know the kid well. I guess that's a benefit of hanging out with your children all day--sometimes you can actually understand their interesting attempts at communication! :)

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  2. SVHobbie2/25/2011 2:18 PM

    Oh, don't be nervous :) It's actually a lot of fun. Really the only reason I knew that's what "nonen" meant was I had just said, "It's snowing!" When she said that I repeated snowing a few times and she would say "nonen" so that's how I knew. Like you said, it's being around your children that really helps. I've noticed that with myself and other mothers: I think my child is perfectly understandable, but then no one else does; they understand their child fine, but I have trouble. You'll do great, trust me ;)

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  3. Garden Gerty3/22/2011 5:47 PM

    I am reminded of you saying k-bye k-bye when your grandma Vi brought you a new doll. I understood it because you demonstrated it.Rock a bye. It also then prepared me to understand k-boo as well. Peek a boo. I love to hear the little one in the background when I call.

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  4. SVHobbie3/27/2011 8:05 PM

    Now if we can just get her to talk on the phone...

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