Kids say the darndest things!!!

Peanut is very good with the talking now, he is putting full sentences together and answers question (most of time like he has understood) that you ask. But he is still quite big with parroting what he has just head or if you ask a question with two options, giving back the option that was the second to be asked.

For example, if I ask him if his much beloved Lambie is a boy or a girl - he says "Lambie is a girl". But if I ask him if Lambie is a girl or a boy - he says that Lambie is a boy.

There are some things that we will repeat things over and over again so the they get in Peanut's head and he will say them on queue, like to wish someone a happy birthday. He has gotten extremely good at saying happy birthday to people - but to the point that he says it nearly every one whether it their birthday or not. He will even sing the happy birthday song and pretend to blow out a candles, again whether it is their birthday or not.

And of course there are sometimes when what we have told him or what he has heard will get an odd reaction. Back in January one of the carers at Peanut's day care centre pulled me aside, concerned that there was a bit of family situation going on that Peanut seemed to have picked up on. He had told this carer that "Nana's a bitch" - or at least that is what she thought he was saying.

I explained that my mother-in-law was spending her summer holiday at Rosebud and that Peanut was just telling her that Nana was at the beach. We then quickly changed what were saying to Peanut about his Nana's whereabouts to either: Nana is at Rosebud or Nana is down the beach.

And of course there are sometimes that things are said in front of Peanut that he just picks up on instantly. Like the time that he was in the car with his Granny and Grandpop. I was at work so I am only telling the story as it was told to me. Peanut's Grandpop was driving the car and took a wrong turn, he let out his frustration at this mistake but saying "BUGGER". Peanut's two grandparents them heard from the back seat, clear as a bell, Peanut saying "BUGGER". Grandpop tried to tell Peanut that he had actually said "bother" not "bugger" but Peanut was sure of what he had heard and corrected him "No Grandpop, not bother, bugger".

M34tb4LL will sometimes give Peanut a shoulder ride and if he puts him on one shoulder he will say he is a pirate and that Peanut is his parrot. Peanut loved this, he will prouding sit on M34tb4LL's shoulder and say "Daddy's a pirate!". Well yesterday we were at a shopping centre and when Peanut had had enough of being in his pram, M34tb4LL lifted him onto this shoulder. I noticed that Peanut had a smudge of chocolate on his face - from the babychino he had just devoured - and I tried to clean it off his face. Peanut quickly smacked my hand away and said "No Mummy, no touching the pirate!" However once he was in his car seat and buckled in I was free to clean the chocolate off his face, he was no longer a pirate you see.

But there are somethings that no matter how much we encourage Peanut to say something - he won't... it is a bit strange. But it is not going to stop us from working on him, like today. I need to get him to say "Happy Mother's Day", not "Happy Mother's Birthday" like he is currently...

(: Reggie