Was that “duck”????… Bad parent of the day award

rakster — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:06:15 +0000

This week you’ve started to talk in whole sentences. Like,

“The bird is in the sky. Up there.”

And the like. And in addition to using your own sentences, you’ve decided to repeat verbatim what other people say to you, back to them:

“Let’s go eat now”; “Lets feed the chickens”; “I like eggs”….

So today I was pulling out of our street into the busy road on the way to drop you (O) at daycare when someone nearly hit me… I swerved and said,

“Fuck. Stupid asshole. Did you see that, they almost hit us.”

Can you see where this is going???..

….

You proceeded to babble in the back about “ducks” with a certain inflection in your voice the rest of the way to daycare.

Nice one mum.

P.S. Yes, we have instituted the swear jar, as I’ve written about before. But at present the rules are that it only applies once you walk in the front door. With the unspoken proviso that both your Dad and I try to adhere to it around you at most times…. But as I’ve also said before that I think I have contributed the most to the about $150 we’ve collected so far..

Roaring like a lion… and quacking like a duck.

rakster — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:39:37 +0000

Communication is definitely the name of the game at the moment.

You’ve been roaring like a lion for weeks. It stems from your two favourite books of the moment:

Dear Zoo, by Rod Campbell and

That’s not my lion.

You love reading books, and these two are firm favourites. I can start reading them out loud across the room from you and you’ll crawl over to me, sit down and watch and touch and join in. No matter how much fun you were having doing whatever it was before I started reading.

Roaring Like a Lion

Both books feature lions and touchy-feely pages with big thick board that you can’t rip or destroy (yet – though I’m sure you’ll manage it somehow soon). So your Lion growling has become a party trick that you perform in the house. Not only when reading the books, but anytime you want to impress a visitor…

…and quacking like a duck

Also a new favourite word is ‘quack, quack’. We do the “Old MacDonald” song, and just general animal noises, and with your rubber ducks you try to say ‘quack, quack’. It comes out more like ‘ack, ack’, but we know you’re trying.

Trying so hard to communicate. You’re really just imitating everything, we’ve even got a few repeated “wow”s out of you when we’ve exclaimed at something you’ve got or done.

So cute.

We’re listening hard, buddy. Keep it up.

love mum

ps. we still try to baby-sign to you a little. Now you’ve learned to wave I’ve been reinspired that you will pick up the signs. Can’t wait until the first one apart from pointing and waving….

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