Today Megan and I were reading one of her favorite books: the animal picture book. I think Megan can name all of the animals except the porcupine. In one picture a hen is sitting on two eggs - the rounded ends poke out just below the chicken breast. Megan is quite familiar with (and can say) eggs - she often has one for breakfast. So instead of the usual "What's that? What does it say?" line of questioning, I pointed to the eggs and asked, "what are those?" Megan's response: "Knees!"
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Megan likes to rumage through the bathroom products and often carries a few of the (tightly sealed, childproof, and non-poisonous) items around the house. Today she ran up to me with a bottle of nailpolish in her outstretched arm.
"On" she insisted.
Curious about her understanding, I asked "What do you want me to put it on?"
"Nipples!" she responded without hesistation. Whoa! - she must have learned that from her Dad!
I have to confess, I don't get either of these. Knees? Nipples? I feel like something funny is going on besides non-sequitirs, but I don't know what it is!
ReplyDeletethe two eggs underneath the chicken do kind of look like knees. nipples is just totally random. the whole thing is just the world from a different view, a world where chickens have huge humanoid knees and nail polish goes on your nipples. Megan is *having* a conversation with these responses, they are just not your usual responses!
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