Jonahisms
10 Jan, 2008
My son Jonah is just starting to talk in earnest. I've forgotten most of his elder sister's cuter sayings, so am making a point of jotting down some of his:
- noh
- no (he's nearing 2, so starting to use this fluently)
- noooooOOOhohoho
- definitely not
- mmmmm
- well, okay then
- moh!
- more!
- Mum-mah
- his mum
- Dad-dee
- that's me
- Rah-rah
- Ngara (his elder sister)
- tar
- car
- tuck
- truck
- dut
- duck
- Dut! Dut! Dut!
- Quack! Quack! Quack!
- neigh
- horse
- baap
- sheep
- bup
- bug
- ay o
- elephant (from "Hey De Ho", a children's song)
- rahh
- tiger, lion
- mao
- cat
- olly daaay
- holiday
- Oh oh ooooh
- "Ho ho ho" (used for anything related to Christmas)
- bubbish tuck!
- rubbish truck!
- moh bubbish tuck?
- where did the rubbish truck go?
- bubba dut
- baby duck (always difficult to distinguish from a rubbish truck)
- ut si
- outside (his favourite place)
- i sti
- swing me "high in the sky"
- Moh i sti!
- C'mon, higher!
- bah bye
- bye bye (usually delivered with a heartbreaking little wave)
He's saying a lot of other things too, but most of them are completely unintelligible at this point. :-)
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