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  • The Words Come Marching One by One, Hoorah!

     

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    I feel like I've been trying to catch rain in a bucket for the past year and now, suddenly, I'm caught in a torrential downpour. I'm talking about words. W-O-R-D-S. As in, Archer has them. Them, becoming more plural as the days pass.

     
    Yes! It's flash-flooding words in the SFTB household and of course, this leaves me speechless.


    This morning I went to fetch Archer from his crib and he pointed out the window and said, like second nature, "lookada caca!"

     

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    I looked for the caca and sure enough? There it was. A caca!

     

    This isn't the first time Archer has said "helicopter." If you'll recall, many moons ago I posted about Archer's first word: helicopter, which I suppose still is his first word, except he never said it again after that. Until now.

     

    "Caca! Caca! Caca!"
     


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  • ASL

    And by ASL, I mean "Archer as a Second Language," because as we near month 20, (OHMYGODHOLYSHITHE'SGROWINGSOFASTAHHH!) Archer, still boycotting English, has mastered one language: his own. Complete gibberish? Maybe to you and me, but to him? It is the only way to communicate.

     

    Soooo... After months of trying to teach Archer to speak English, begging him to repeat words, etc, I've given up. Retired. Thrown in the hat. Instead, I've decided that I will have to learn Archer. After all, EVERYONE speaks English these days. It's so totally trendy.

     

    I have so far learned that "AkshartoopasdjakjhlpkooabababapAHwalokuoywataba" means "No". But it also means,"yes". And hello. Kind of like "Aloha" except it's a lot harder to pronounce.

     
    Here, for example, is a day-in-the-life conversation between the two of us:

     

     

     
    Any idea what he's saying? Because I suck at language and know, like, three words of Espanol even though I took Spanish for four years in High School:


    Tengo un lapiz = Do you have a pencil?

    Donde estas la biblioteca = Where is the library?

    Puedo ir al bano = Where is the bathroom?

    Mi llama es Rebecca = My name is Rebecca

    *Soy muy confusidades con ASL = Ayuda, por favor! Ayuda! = I am very confused with ASL.  Help, please! Help!

     

    Seriously. Does anyone out there have a translator on hand? 

     
     

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    *told you my Spanish sucks 



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Who says becoming a mom means succumbing to laser tattoo removal and moving to the suburbs? This young writer and mother of one gives it to you Straight From the Bottle.

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