Thursday Thirteen #25

13 Mimisms

1. Lair-pay - Airplane: As in, "Mommy! Look, look, lair-pay sky!"

2. Nimetopa - Minnesota: When Daddy was in Minnesota, she asked me where he was about every five minutes. I always told her, Minnesota, but she would argue that he was at the new house or at his job. This week, now that he's home, I tell her that he's at work when she asks, and she argues that he's in Nimetopa. Argh!

3. Mongy - Grandma: Actually, we've progressed to Ga-mah now, but Mongy lasted for a long time. The 'g' isn't actually a hard or a soft 'g'. It's a moderate 'g'. When Zaya was little, he called the grandmas, "Gn-gn". I originally told the grandmothers that we'd call them what the kids did, but since they both picked such weird things, we stuck it out till they managed "grandma". Now, their cousin calls Grandma T, "Na-na" which is cute and do-able for adults, but it's too late for us.

4. Keeto Bite - Flying insect: any flying insect, actually. Mosquitos, fly, gnats; they're all keeto bites.

5. Oosh - Shoe/Shoes: We loves oosh in all forms and sizes. Sometimes we have to try on every oosh we can find in the entire house, regardless of size or seasonal appropriateness.

6. Oss - Off: As in, "Ite oss", when she's in Mommy's room and wants to endear herself by flipping the light switch over and over and over and over...

7. Woot-nak - Fruit Snack: I wish I meant real fruit by the phrase fruit snack, but I mean those little multi-colored sugar lumps shaped like fruit or cartoon characters, and optimistically called "fruit snacks" by some enterprising business man long ago.

8. Coo-Coo - Blue's Clues: Need I say more?

9. Ga-it - Tag, you're it!: This is the first thing Mim wants to do after Daddy's welcome home hug. She slaps him on whatever she can reach, yells "Ga-It!" and runs off squealing.

10. Hi-See - Hide and Seek: Another game played frequently with Daddy and Zaya. The kids always "hide" in the exact same place, and then Daddy has to go find them. Thrilling and often an off-shoot of ga-it.

11. Bank-it, Ba-ba - Blanket and Bottle: Along with Puppy, these form the sleeptime triumvirate, which must not be disturbed, changed or questioned in any way.

12. *#@ - House: I'm not going to write it. Let's just say it's awkward when she yells "Grandma's House!" in church.

13. Ol' Lucky Bucky - Old yucky spaghetti: My general phrase for anything I don't want her to eat, taste or otherwise mess with is "old and yucky" which comes out "ol' lucky" when Mim tries. She saw some old spaghetti on the table when we were eating lunch yesterday and kept telling us about the "ol' lucky bucky" until Mommy came and cleaned it away.