Latest Ivanisms

Ivan has become quite a little chatterbox.

He practices talking to himself, talking to his toys, talking to Medic. It becomes a random hodge-podge of words and phrases he's heard us use, and he repeats things he heard a while back. He also practices things he's heard in daycare. He practices his interaction with other kids or teachers. It's really cute. And so obvious that that's what he's doing.

It's also clear that in daycare they're teaching them colors and numbers. And he obviously has absolutely no concept of either. They must be working on the color "green." According to Ivan, everything is green, including all the things that are not.

The same goes for numbers. For a while now, he'll count "one, three, nine," or some other number combination.

This week's favorite has been "Didi, leady, four, ten," as he'd try to tell my dad, "ready, one, two, three," when they were playing with the ball.

He's still mixing up English and Croatian in the same sentence. He understand both and can "talk" in both. However, lately I'm noticing that English is becoming a bit more dominant. It makes sense. The pool of English speakers around him is much wider and during the week he's more exposed to English than to Croatian. But that's OK.

A selection of recent random Ivan phrases:

"Didi sjekao notkici"

"Yucky cips."

"Drinking a voda."

"Do dat, dadda"

"No bones, Popo."

"Move grass."

"No touc it"

"No go kuci," as he kept insisting today as we were driving home from daycare.

And the all time favorite: "My do dat."