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We have a group of kittens in our house that some stray cat had in our garage. Dearest and I are suckers and couldn’t leave the poor little things out once we learned the cat-hating neighbor had plans to get rid of them. Now they spend their days running around the house, most of the time trying to escape the toddler chasing them and giggling.
One of the best things about them is hearing the toddler try to say their names. Go Bot and Puffball. Doesn’t seem too hard, right? Yet Trey manages to mangle their names in just the right way to make me both worry and roll on the floor laughing. Go Bot and Puffball come out of his mouth as Hot Pot and Speedball.
That’s right, my toddler is tossing around drug slang and names for delicious Chinese food. He’s like an even more badass Anthony Bourdain. While Bourdain is just drinking heavy and smoking like a chimney, mine is experimenting with potentially lethal drug combinations. I should probably do an intervention, but really he might be on to something. It would be No Reservations: Hospital Cafeteria Style. Tasting the various hospital dishes all over the world as he heals from drug induced injuries. Sure you might need closed captioning to know what’s saying and there would be more paranoid rants than usual, but really how could I deny him his chance at stardom?
OK, on a more serious note I’m not actually condoning drug use. Drugs are bad, don’t do drugs, drugs will rot your brain, hugs not drugs. Have you hugged your speedball, er, Puffball today?
July 18th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
We have two dogs- Fleck and Orca- and our toddler hasn’t gotten past yelling “DAAWWWGGGG” at the top of her lungs.
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July 19th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
This is too cute!
My favorite toddlerism: for the longest time, when my daughter said “fork,” it sounded exactly like the F word!
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July 20th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
hehehehe cute…cute little speedball..lmao!
July 21st, 2008 at 1:12 am
LOL - we have a litter of kittens right now too. Our girls wanted to name the first two of the ‘Spots’ and ‘Spotty’. Mommy and Daddy took over the naming at that point.
Although we call all of them ‘fluffball’ or ‘fuzzhead’ right now too anyway.
July 24th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Louise - Aww, so cute!
Mama Zen - How funny, and totally embarrassing!
Sara - Thank you.
Deb - LOL Spots and Spotty, I wonder what would have been next. Spottier?