When she hears a new word she's always quick to ask, "What dat word mean?", followed by intently listening to the response, a brief pause and eyes rolled up to the ceiling, as though she is literally moving it into a particular Rubbermaid bin in her brain for recollection at a later time. As a result, her three year old vocabulary includes such “big words” as: ingredients, exaggeration, immediately, and scandalous, to name a few.
What is amazing to us is that she not only holds words she has heard once in her bean, but manages to, almost without fail, use them in context correctly. It is hilariously enjoyable. For instance. A couple weeks ago Nedy was sitting at Nana’s kitchen table with her 7 year old cousin, John John. Nana was also at the table, holding John John’s baby sister, Vivian, a darling gal of 7 months. Nana and Papa’s place is always really warm and Vivian’s face was flushed, prompting the removal of her tights.
Nedy: “Oooooh, dis is soooo scandawous!”
John John: “What’s that mean?”
Nedy: “It means…yike…twouble!”
John John: (looking at me) “Is she speaking Chinese?”
Nedy: “Noooooo, John John, it’s ENGISH."
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