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The girls are at a stage where they really want to figure out words. They’ve been at various stages of this stage for a while. I remember over a year ago when they would try out words, words like maybe or perfect or never. Now they want definitions for words, even for words they already (seemingly) know. It’s maddening.

(at naptime)
“Please rest. You don’t need to sleep, but you do need to rest.”

“What’s rest?”

“It means to relax. You know what rest means.”

“Do I close my eyes when I rest?”

“You can if you want to.”

“You just said I didn’t have to close my eyes!”

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

The other night they asked the babysitter about ‘disgusting’. She actually gave them a really good definition and talked about when they could use it and when they couldn’t. For instance, things are disgusting but people never are. Also, you wouldn’t want to call food that your mom made you disgusting. You can tell she works with 3-year-olds all day. So now they call everything disgusting. “That garbage is disgusting!” “That toy is disgusting!” We’ve had to have a lot of conversations about what things are actually disgusting.

Tuesday night everything was stinky. I think they’re still trying to figure out when words can be silly, and they definitely thought stinky was silly. Nicole the babysitter and I did not find stinky silly. They kept calling her stinky as she left and laughing like it was oh so funny! Ugh. It was late and she needed to go so we wrapped it up and talked about it in the morning. Both girls had to find Nicole at daycare yesterday and apologize. Caden was so embarassed by this, but Laney got it. I think Laney was the stinky instigator and Caden followed along, not realizing the trouble she was going to get into.

The other word we’re having troubles with is ‘pretty’. But that’s a whole other post on its own!

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