A Two-Year-Old's Mind

A glimpse into our conversations with Lainey...

• "No get us." (Lainey says this when talking about tractors, vacuums, lawnmowers (which are particularly terrifying), cars, wasps, flies, etc.)
• "Mmmm. That so good."
• "Okay, I comin'!"
• "Shoo, fly, shoo!" (She doesn't like flies.)
• "That fun game!"
• "I be okay." (When she falls down, she'll say this to let us know that she is indeed "okay.")
• "No, no wind!" (She calls the A/C in the car "wind." She'll say this when she wants me to turn off the A/C. Silly girl. We live in Texas! We need A/C!)
• "Apart, together. Apart, together." (She'll jump around the house like this - spreading her legs apart, and then snapping them back together. She learned this move at PowerKids!)
• "What that sound?" (She looks around and holds up her little hands, palms facing upwards, and waits for our answer to her question.)
• "Careful, careful, careful."
• "Ewwwwww, that so yucky!"
• "That new idea." or "That good idea."
• "There, that better."
• "Oh, shoot!" and "Oh, goodness!" (I say both of those phrases quite often...)
• "That so nice."
• "C'mon, guys!"
• "Great job _______ ." (She likes to praise other people for things that they've done well!)
• "One, two, where are you?!" (during a game of hide-and-seek)
• "That so pretty."
• "C'mon, kiddos!" (I think she picked up this phrase from me.)
• "Come here, bunny!" (She thinks that the wild bunnies in our neighborhood will come running to her if she calls to them.)
• "Mommy come back." (Lainey says this whenever we talk about going to church, school, camp, the gym...whenever she knows that she'll be placed in childcare.)
• "That my L." (She saw the letter L on the side of a truck and claimed it as hers because her name starts with L. She does this with a lot of things. She thinks that because she has a particular object/toy at her house, then it is hers and can't exist elsewhere. It's hard to explain some things to a two-year-old!)
• "Wheeeeee!" (Lainey says this whenever we cross over a bridge.)
• "Hing go!" (This means "Here you go!")
• "Come up here, woman!" (She said this to a neighbor of Yiyia and Bud's. Lainey wanted her to come upstairs to play.)
• "That so cute!" (At one point, she said this about some ants.)
• "Mommy, girl. Lainey, girl. Daddy, boy. Walker, boy." (She likes identifying boys, girls, men, women.)
• "No touch! Just look at it." (I wonder where she picked up that phrase?)
• "My pet it." or "My touch it." (This phrase applies to everything - babies, bunnies, Walker, dogs, the mole on her foot, worms, bugs, flowers, plants...anything she wants to touch.)
• "Drive by big man!" (She has an obsession with large inflatables. She has a love/hate relationship with them. She begs to drive by them, and loves for her mom and dad to touch them, but she herself is terrified to go near one. Once, she touched a giant inflatable man dressed as a chef outside of a restaurant (while I was holding her) but that was it.)
• "Uncle Chris China." (Uncle Chris went to China for work, and for some reason, this has stuck with her even though he's been home for a while. I think she just likes to say it.)
• "Big truck take Lainey's poops away." (Whenever she sees a garbage truck or hears a truck drive by our house, Lainey says this. The garbage truck takes Lainey's dirty diapers away. We talk about this so frequently, and only sometimes does she get upset about it.
• "Hold Mommy's hand cross street."
• "Hold horses!" ("Hold your horses!")
• "My do that." (Substitute hold/have/want for "do" and this/it for "that.")
• "Share toys" and/or "Share babies." (Lainey says this whenever we talk about her friends - no matter what we are doing or where we are going.)
• "Hold both of us." (She would love for me to hold Walker's carrier and her at the same time. No wonder I have back problems!)
• "I need show." (Clearly we're going to have to work on the difference between wants and needs. Although, I will admit that sometimes I need my TV shows, too.)
• "Noooooooo!" (She says this in a very deep voice, imitating Yiyia, when telling Reagan not to do something.)
• Me: "Lainey, what do you want for breakfast, a granola bar or Cheerios?" Lainey: (long pause) "Fruit snacks." Me: "Silly. That wasn't one of your choices. What do you want to eat? Cheerios or a granola bar?" Lainey: (long pause) "Popsicle!"
• Me: "Lainey, do you want three or four french fries?" Lainey: "Seven." (Gotta love a girl who isn't afraid to ask for what she wants.)
• Me: "Lainey, do you have poops or is it just gas?" Lainey: "My have gas." (Usually she has a dirty diaper.)
• "Big toes, tiny toes." (She likes to point out her big/tiny toes and Walker's big/tiny toes.)
• "Let's play binky face!" (We play this game before naptime and bedtime. She runs around her room with a binky in her mouth and I chase and then tackle her.)
• She loves to sing songs.
• She can count to 20 (most of the time) but frequently (almost always) will leave out the numbers 4 and 14 and then she sometimes gets confused with those last few numbers leading up to 20. :)
• Anything can be turned into a "birthday hat." (Examples include: buckets, pots, cups, etc.)
• She answers a lot of our questions with "okay" and "sure" or "yeah, sure." She's good at saying "thanks" and "thank you" and "you're welcome."
• Funny words: "taber" (table); any "c" or "k" sound is replaced with a "t" sound; "bider" (spider); any "f" sound is replaced with a "p" or a "b" sound - like "food" is "bood" and "finger" is "binger"; the "s" sound is omitted if it's at the beginning of a word (most of the time) - like "sniff" is "niff" and "sparkly" is "barkelly."