Over the weekend I jotted down some of the current growing repertoire within Ivan's vocabulary.
He's increasingly stringing words together into sentences, both in English and Croatian, is trying to hold conversations with us, and likes to asks questions, or more precisely, ask the same question over and over and over again. He also promptly repeats, and misprononouces, everything we say:
Counting:
"4, 5, go" (which seems to have replaced the "ready, 4, 10")
"4, 5, 6, 'leven"
Conversation and question sample:
"Pour me jos sok."
"You need jos sok, mama?"
(Pour me more juice. YOu need more juice, mama?)
Sometimes he says "more juice" instead of "jos sok"; he uses Croatian and English interchangeably.
"Dat one not yours. Dat mines."
(This one is not yours. This one is mine.)
"Dat dadas."
(That's dadda's.)
"Ladies ciste ma kucu."
(Ladies are cleaning my house.)
"You have aqilo bite?"
(Do you have a mosquito bite?)
"You have a socks."
(You have socks.)
"Mama, open dat light."
"Mama, offed dat light."
(Turn the light on. Turn the light off)
"You cooking, mama?"
"Yes, I'm cooking."
"You cooking, mama?" he repeats the question, over and over again, as he's watching me cook.
Or the newest acquisition from yesterday when he woke up cranky.
"NO! Don't look me."
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I stumbled over to your blog somehow,and I can't help but laugh at that last one. When my daughter is grumpy she does the SAME thing... " MOMMY! DON'T wook at me!" Or the oh so popular,"I don't wike that, mommy. I don't want it!" And that last one is a catch all...I tell her it's OK to be grumpy, and I still love her...she doesn't like it and doesn't want me to say it...oh the twos :)
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