For the longest time, Mattias didn't really talk. And when he did, he spoke in some weird language only I could understand. About 50% of the time. When he turned 2, all of a sudden the words came and he hasn't stopped taking since. Some of my favourites:
Me (walking into Mattias's room one morning): Good morning, little man!
Mattias: Mama! Co-co (Portuguese for poop)! Co-co Mama!
Hear-we-ow-ow-ow-ow - Cereal. I'm not sure why he adds those extra syllables on the end, but it sure is cute!
I ate my food all! - This is cute because it is a direct translation of I ate all of my food, from Portuguese. Even cuter is that Elise used to say the exact same thing.
Kip-kip tree - Christmas tree
Hinnerwanna - Cinderella
Baby wucass - Baby Lucas
Que dat? - What's that? A hybrid of Portuguese and English.
Mama, I'm talking to you - what he says when he's trying to get my attention.
I want to tell you something - Usually he doesn't, he just likes to say it.
Hoo-ha - What he calls his pacifier... in Portuguese the word is pronounced shusha, but he can't say the letter "S". Hence the hilarious, yet oh-so inappropriate pronunciation.
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| My silly boy, at the "kip-kip" tree farm |
5 comments:
These are all simple precious...just like he is! xoxo
love love love that you keep a record of all of this. and the bilingual thing brings some great stuff out! :)
hoo ha. perfect. and then we have the picture of him slinging his blade Hoo! HA !! indeed.
by the way, congrats on the charming new member of the family. I haven't commented in so long, but we think of you and the family often.
emily wilbert
Love those bilingual kid-isms. Lizzy constantly says "open" and "close" the lights, as opposed to "turn on" and "off". Maybe this many kids say but we think it's because it's a direct translation from Chinese :-)
Okay, I'm tired. Of course I meant to say "maybe many other kids also say this". Of course I know you know what it means to be tired, so I'm not going to try and change it...
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