Bassie, while watching an ad for the re-release of Sleeping Beauty: “Mom, you know what I don’t like? When they take a line that a character said in a movie and recut it so it sounds like the character is saying it about the movie. Like, ‘This is so great!”, like they think the movie is great.”
Me: “Oh, you don’t like that?”
Bassie: “No. It’s exploiting the movie!”
Yeah, that’s right, my eight year old daughter uses the word “exploiting” without prompting.
And that’s why you talk to them like they’re real people and not babies. Because otherwise she might have said something stupid, like “It’s using the movie for something that it was not meant to be used for.”
Pu-lease. We must be nothing if not precise.
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In related news, my little monkey said this to me today: “PauPau nowan foo. I won k-o-mel.” [Decode that if you can. I understood him perfectly.]
Unfortunately, the result was a firm “no” from daddy and five minutes of pouting from him. He wasn’t yet ready to express it, but I’m pretty sure this left him thinking “This whole language thing is overrated, anyway.”
k-o-mel??? caramel? oatmeal? i’m lost…
Yosef and I both thought “caramel”, too. Which means that he doesn’t consider “caramel” to be “food”. That’s a small victory.
This reminds me of when we’d be in the car and Bassie would say “Dina pooped!” and Baby Dina would say “I no poopy; I jus gashy.” I love that age when they’re totally communicative but their words still sound really funny.
I also love that Paul calls himself “PauPau”.
Yes, what he says sounds very much like “caramel.” What he means, however, is “cup of milk.”
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