Contortionists' Training Camp: April 2013

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Little Voices

I am loving Devyn's beautiful little fairy language as an almost-two-year-old. Her phrases are so charming! These are just a few that I want to hold in my heart forever:

"Have some?" This is what she says whenever she wants something that someone else has or something she sees, as in, "Have some cupcake?" But the funny thing is that her voice goes up about an octave when she says it.
"Mama? I right here." Whenever she calls for me from a different room, I have a tendency to say, "I'm right here, baby," so she can follow my voice and find me. She's started just randomly saying this to me and Brandon—like she's just checking in—even when we're in the same room. It makes my heart clench every time in the best way.
"It's ok." If she is going to watch a show, I used to ask, "Is this OK?" when I found a kid show, to see if it was something she wanted to watch. Now she offers, "It's OK," when she sees something she wants to watch, whether I've asked or not. Like America's Test Kitchen—what can I say? I'm raising a foodie.
"No, I dry." In response to being asked if she needs a new diaper.
"Tear come my cheek." She is obsessed with crying, her own and other people's. But when she has been crying, she always needs to tell me that a "tear come my cheek."
"Happy!" Luckily, she is equally obsessed with being happy, and she tells me frequently when she's happy. And that simple little act of saying when she's happy—something we grown ups don't do often enough—is enough to improve my whole day.

Edited to add:

Since she's had a little eye infection this past week, she's added two new phrases:

"I feel better," to try to convince us that she's no longer sick, and thus no longer needs eye drops.
And, the more straightforward, "NO EYE DROP!"