Cheepies

Something that is nice about your kids learning how to talk is getting to really understand their little brains. You get to see how they take in information, absorb it and analyze it. You get to see how they think and make connections. And, you get to see how their sense of humor works. Lately, we have been enjoying a lot of Marissa's developing sense of humor. She latches onto a lot of what Mason does and says that makes her laugh and repeats ad nauseam, regardless of the response from her "audience". She spent the last week saying "green mac and cheese!" incredulously at totally random times in a voice that sounded an awful lot like an impression of Mason. I still don't get that joke, but it cracked her up for a long time. When doing or saying silly things, she often tells me, "I'm weird," or "I'm just being weird." That always makes me smile.
A couple of days ago, we were "reading" a vocabulary book about animals. When we got to the ducklings, she clearly couldn't remember what they were called. I think she was going for "chicks", but instead called them, "cheeps".
I said, "What are those?"
She said hopefully, "Cheepies?"
Then we all laughed.
We have read that same book at nap and bed time every day since then, and even though I have told her the proper name and given her the out of "baby ducks", when we get to the ducklings, she calls them "cheepies" and laughs at her tiny joke.
That Rissa is cute. I am sure glad she came to live at my house.