Aftonisms & Peterisms

Afton says some seriously funny things. I just don't want to forget all the hilarious things she does because I am realizing they are so fleeting and I easily forget them once she stops doing them!

So for documentation sake:

"I've got Marzipan fruits" this one is old but I can still hear her little voice trying to entice Pete and I to come play some game she has imagined up. For some reason saying she has "marzipan fruits" seemed like the ultimate persuasion to her. This started last December when we read the nutcracker a lot.

"Hostibottle" is how she says hospital. She has said it that way since we started talking about having Peter at the hospital (so over a year now)

"tontats" she likes to ask me about my contacts since they often bother me and cause me to itch my eyes.

"Toose-caste" is what she brushes her teeth with. She is quite good at brushing them all by herself now. And we don't have fits anymore when I floss her teeth. Peter, on the other hand still fights brushing his teeth.

Today at the park Afton picked up some sticks and kept calling them her "roshes" she was holding them over a pack of wipes and talking all about these roshes. Then all of the sudden it hit me that she was ROASTING imaginary marshmallows on the sticks she found. She does this type of thing all the time. She will be set on a name for some object and I think its bizarre that she has chosen to call it that but come to find out she is just using a word she has overheard but pronouncing it incorrectly. She likes to test my detective skills ;)

Peter:

One day Afton kept saying over and over in a sing-songy voice "Peeet-er" and Peter began responding with a drawn out "Aaaaf-ton." It took me and Afton by surprise!

Peter did not really care for books for quite some time but recently has become obsessed with Goodnight Gorilla and Goodnight Moon and sometimes won't go to bed until we have read them. I'm slowly easing some other books into the mix. Once he is more familiar with them he will tolerate them. He loves a little book we have about ducklings and also You're my Pumpkin Pie is becoming one of his favorites.

He began saying "ta-da" and called his fire truck that (because it sings a song that ends with "ta-da") he once pointed to a bike and said "ta-da" but hasn't done it again so perhaps it was coincidence.

We have a nursery rhyme book with the words changed to be construction songs. When I sing Do You Know the Bulldozer? he tries to say "bulldozer" with me!