Nora’s off school for a couple of weeks and, this morning, accompanied her mom and me to campus. Jen had to work for an hour or so so Nora and I walked to my office. During the walk Nora said the following (that I understood. there were several things I couldn’t figure out):
“truck, car, car, car, truck, bus BUS!!!!”
(claps hands, sees a truck backing up)
“*beep* *beep* *beep*, doggie!, *owwwww*, *woof* *woof* *owwwwww*”
A big yellow lab licked her head a few weeks ago in a park and nearly knocked her over (I need to post pictures from that outing, btw, someone remind me!). So every time she sees or thinks about a dog now she says “owwwww!” and rubs the spot where his nose bumped her. It can be a blind Yorkshire Terrier half a mile away and she’ll still say “owwwwww! and rub her head. There’s something in that about semantic categories and representatives of a class, but I bore people when I talk about linguistics here.
“truck, birdie, *hee*, dada shoe, nora shoe, dada shoe, shoe, mama?”
(looks around for mama, I say “mama’s at work” which she genuinely seems to understand)
“nora shirt, dada shirt, nora, nora, nora, nora, roll it, pat it, roll it pat it,”
These are from “patty-cake” which her mom & grandma have taught her. The only part she really likes is the roll-it and pat-it part. She does the hand gesture for rolling and pats herself on the chest or tummy for “pat it”.
“*beep* *beep* *beep*”
(“lawn mowers don’t beep,” I tell her, “even riding ones.”)
“down! Nora.”
When she’s down, “down!” means “up!” and when she’s up “down!” means “down!”. You can hear her saying “down!” on the Nora & Beth video we posted a few weeks ago.