My youngest lady is a month away from being three. She's very verbal and most everyone can understand what she's saying, but it sometimes takes a great deal of effort to understand what she means. She mis-labels things or makes up her own words for them. Trying to guess what she is speaking of is great fun and a bit like playing charades with words.
She will typically give objects their own names, but today it was a song title. Some background information is necessary here...my two older ladies have a great knack for memorizing what CD is in which slot in the six disc changer in our car as well as the playlist number of their favorite songs on each disc. They select their song of choice by giving me the numbers. And I have a great knack for picking up languages. We have it down to a science, but it would sound fairly foreign to untrained ears. The conversation typically goes as such...
Momma: It's your turn, Ava. What do you want to listen to?
Ava: Umm...2, number 11 and then 3, 14.
Simple, concise, and completely functional. Well, unless you're two and you simply do not posess the skill set yet to memorize numbers. However, you are able to memorize which songs are on which discs by your own system of word labeling.
So today's song choice conversation went like this...
Momma: It's your turn, Willa. What do you want to listen to?
Willa: Good Night Road Trippin'
I'm thinking...What?! We have no song called Good Night on any of our CD's. We have no CD called Road Trippin'. We do, however, have a song called Road Trippin' on one of our CD's.
Momma: Big ladies, which one is Road Trippin' on?
Big Ladies: It's 2!
Willa: I need Good Night!
Momma: I don't know which one it is. Can you sing it?
Willa: Tonight's gonna be good night.
Big Ladies: It's 11! It's 11!
Momma: Thank you!!
I select disc 2, forward to song 11 and help the ladies belt out "I Gotta Feeling" by the Black Eyed Peas.
I speak English, CDease, and toddler. Tri-lingual. Yet another skill I've acquired staying home with those 3 little ladies.
