The niecelings got to bed much too late tonight

[conuly]

I'd taken down their hammocks (that's not why they got to bed late, it just explains why they were overhyper) and when I put them back I put them on the wrong hooks.

Evangeline walked in, stared at it a minute, and then her jaw literally dropped. "CONNIE! Das not right! Das SI-YEE! Dat MAH hammak, na Ana's! Dis mine? NO! You put hammaks BACKWARDS!"

Of course, when it came time to go to bed, she flipped out, so we had to switch the hammocks back anyway.

Between seeing the hammocks and flipping out, we played catch. I threw her little squishy ball and said "catch", and she got kinda upset. "Cana! Dis na a 'cash'. It a BALL!"

"Uh, no. I mean, yes, it *is* a ball, but catch doesn't mean the ball, it means what you do. You throw the ball, and then I catch the ball. Now I throw the ball, and you catch it." (She didn't, but that's not the point.)

So she caught on to that idea, and said "catch" every time she threw the ball, and even tried to work it into some sentences there. I actually think this is the first time she's learned a word through being explicitly taught rather than just threw osmosis.

Comments

[sayga.livejournal.com]

"threw osmosis" ... ball... HAHAHAHA! Love it.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I totally didn't get that that was a pun - I thought it was just a regular old spelling error.

[caprinus.livejournal.com]

Well, it may have been an unintentional pun -- it still got a giggle out of me :)

[conuly]

That's my story, and from now on, I'm sticking to it.

[sayga.livejournal.com]

Don't you know? conuly doesn't MAKE regular old spelling errors! ;P

[conuly]

OMG. That actually *was* a mistake! Boy, is my face red. (Well, I'm chowing down on Sri Lankan food, it ought to be!) I'll just pretend it's intentional.

[sayga.livejournal.com]

"threw osmosis" ... ball... HAHAHAHA! Love it.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I totally didn't get that that was a pun - I thought it was just a regular old spelling error.

[caprinus.livejournal.com]

Well, it may have been an unintentional pun -- it still got a giggle out of me :)

[conuly]

That's my story, and from now on, I'm sticking to it.

[sayga.livejournal.com]

Don't you know? conuly doesn't MAKE regular old spelling errors! ;P

[conuly]

OMG. That actually *was* a mistake! Boy, is my face red. (Well, I'm chowing down on Sri Lankan food, it ought to be!) I'll just pretend it's intentional.