This morning Elsa said to me: “Mama, can you help me please? I need to turn on the light because it is too dark in my room.“
I swear, she said that – exactly. All those words. In that order.
It was shocking.
My just-three-year-old is suddenly sounding like a real live human, who uses complete sentences and (mostly) proper English words and pronunciation and syntax…
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16 November 2010 at 4:40 pm
clare
watch out the next one is — mom I’m going to the mall I’ll be back in about an hour… buh bye
16 November 2010 at 5:46 pm
mubarek
Um, duh. Like mama, like daughter.
16 November 2010 at 7:55 pm
Julie
Holy Crap!
16 November 2010 at 7:55 pm
susie
HARVARD.
16 November 2010 at 8:19 pm
Jeanice
oooohhhh…I love how she calls you Mama. Not Mommy, Mama. I get the same thing over here and it just melts me very time!
16 November 2010 at 8:52 pm
Katie
And the funniest part is that right after the full, grammatically correct sentence they go back to gibberish.
17 November 2010 at 3:33 pm
natasha
Refined AND sophisticated. I love it.
18 November 2010 at 8:48 am
ckd1
Love it. She’s a smartie, that one!
18 November 2010 at 10:08 am
Anna
Hey, next thing you know she’ll ask for the cell phone and start texting her gfs…LOL!
I love it when they surprise you like that….