At 17 months, Kylie has a vocabulary of maybe 20 words or so? Now, when I say “vocabulary,” I mean words that someone who doesn’t know Kylie might not understand. But Da-Da and I know. “Kha-ka” means “cracker”. “Please” sounds an awful lot like a Roger Rabbit impression “prrrease”. “Be-auw” is “bear” for our dog Teddy Bear. “Ba-ba” until a couple weeks ago was actually me – mama. (I’ve since graduated to Ma-ma, and I can’t get enough of hearing it. I get so excited that Kylie just goes on and on… Ma-ma! Ma-Ma? Ma-ma! And most recently, “O-e-o-e-oooo” has taken on a new meaning…. Prior to Christmas (Kylie was 14 months), it meant “Cinderella.” She LOVES that book. After Christmas and meeting my sister’s American bulldog Zoe, it also means “Zoe.” We all thought it was very funny that the bulldog and Cinderella shared the same name. Well, now, “O-e-o-e-ooo” has a 3rd meaning – “I love you.” Awwwwww….. Seriously. Isn’t being a 17 month old, amazing?! To have one word that means different things…
It reminds me of something I heard once about the Eskimos having like a hundred different uses for the word snow, or maybe it was a hundred different words for snow, but the idea was that it was because snow was so important to their culture. So, if I go with that idea, does that mean that Cinderella, Zoe and I love you, mean so much to Kylie that she uses one word to cover them?
It reminds me of something I heard once about the Eskimos having like a hundred different uses for the word snow, or maybe it was a hundred different words for snow, but the idea was that it was because snow was so important to their culture. So, if I go with that idea, does that mean that Cinderella, Zoe and I love you, mean so much to Kylie that she uses one word to cover them?
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