Rebecca-isms

Rebecca's got her chatty sister beat for how much and how well she talks at barely two years old.  She talks non stop from the minute she gets up until the minute she goes to sleep, and the things she says are so clear (and cute and often hilarious).

Here are some phrases we hear from Rebecca on a regular basis:

-"Make my warm."  (Make me warm--Rachel used to say this same thing when she was cold!)

-"Seck it out."  (Check it out--she says this at the library when she sees a book, video, or CD that she wants.  While Grandma was here watching her she kept saying this while holding a book and making a beeping sound, and she finally figured out that Rebecca was pretending to check things out at the library--the beeping sound was the sound the computer makes when it scans the bar code.)

-"I want ice water!" (self explanatory....but she says this ALL the time--the girl drinks all day long, and it can't be just plain water anymore--Daddy introduced her to ice and now it always has to be ice water.)

-"I hiding Becca!" (She says this while covering her eyes.  She wants us to say, "Where's Rebecca?" and play peekaboo, which she calls "peekie-boo."  She calls herself Becca, but if we remind her that her name is Rebecca she'll say, "Uh-becca" instead of just "Becca."  Sometimes she'll say, "Uh-Becca Doy" for "Rebecca Joy," which I call her when she's in trouble!)

-"I wanna watch the Wiggles!"  (I hear this many, many times daily.  But lately she's become very interested in Blue's Clues.  She sits pretty still to watch it, and sometimes Curious George and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, too.)

-"I in tubble," she says with a serious look on her face.  (I'm in trouble.  She says this when she knows she did something wrong.

-I always marvel at her longer sentences.  Lately I've counted a few seven word sentences, like "I wanna take my shoes off now," or "I wanna put dat in my mouth," when talking about some sort of food she likes.  I just shake my head in amazement.  At this age I think I was lucky to get a couple of words out of Rachel, I think.  At some point when she was two her language exploded, but Rebecca's seems to have done that a lot sooner.  It's so fun to watch her language develop.

Oh, and I almost forgot our very favorite....  Guess what she calls "Humpty Dumpty?"

"Dumpy Dumpy!"

I'll be sad the day she finally gets that one right.  It makes me smile every time I hear it.