Conversations with Colour: Toddler Talk // Life

This week I'm finally going to join in with the gorgeous Josefa for her monthly Conversations linky. This month the theme is Conversations with colour, and Josefa has written about the choices we make as parents and AFL team supportership (is that even a word? I have no idea. But anyway...).

When I think of Conversations with Colour it makes me think of interesting conversations. Conversations with life, with maybe a few swear words. Conversations that make you laugh out loud and go a million miles a minute.

It's no secret that I'm a talker. If you've ever met me in the offline world then you know that I could talk underwater if need be. I've always been a talker. And it's not a nervous talking thing either, where people feel the need to talk to fill empty space in awkward or new situations. I am a grade-A, barely-pause-to-take-a-breath, Chatter Box.

I've been this way ever since I learnt to talk. I come from a long line of talkers, so it's not surprising. I've long since grown accustomed to the jokes and digs sent my way in regards to what I think is a very handy habit to have. I can have a chat with anyone, and if need be I can just keep talking until something more interesting comes along for the listener to do. Don't even get me started on how much I talk when I've been drinking!

So it makes sense that my daughters are inheriting this trait from their Mother. Zee, at only 15 months old already has quite an extensive vocabulary. Unlike Punky, who was quite slow to start talking, Zee has benefited from having a Chatter Box big sister and is already busting out the two syllable words and stringing up to 3 together at a time.

Of course the 3 words that she strings together just happen to be "let it go" but we won't dwell on that. She also loves to tell me to "Go! Go!" when we are stopped at traffic lights, thanks to Punky's incessant yelling of it every time the car slows down, and thanks to swimming lessons her favourite thing to say at the moment is "ready, go!".

People are quite shocked to learn that she is only 15 months old when they hear her talking. She is an incredible mimic and will copy most things, with perfect pitch and intonation. She never shuts up and wanders the house babbling and talking to herself non-stop. It's such a relief when she goes to bed.

The real laughs come from Punky though. She is at that stage where she is like a little sponge, soaking up everything she hears, and then parroting it back to you. I've had to really start watching what I say after overhearing her call her Barbie a little bugger, as well as hearing her say "There's pucking one" after I'd muttered under my breath about there always being one person who doesn't move while driving! Bad Mummy!

The cutest is when she says things that you just don't expect to hear a toddler say, and you wonder where she got it from. Like exclaiming how delicious her play tea was the other day, or when she told my sister last night "It's so great to see you!" when they were saying goodbye.

My favourite is when she tells me how "bootiful" I look when I get dressed in pretty much anything, or when she tells me that she loves me so much, or "to the moon!". When I hear her say these things to me it forces me to try and see myself through her eyes and it's a very interesting lesson she has to teach me.

Perhaps the funniest though, and most awkward is the fact that she can't quite pronounce the 'f' sound yet. It's not a huge deal, because there aren't too many words that she is trying to say that begin with that sound. Except for two. And when she says them in public it makes people double-take and give me funny looks.

Because she has replaced the 'f' with a 'p'. Which means that when she asks "Mummy, you finished?", it comes out as "Mummy, you pissed?". Or if she's talking about fish, it sounds like she's talking about piss. It's absolutely hilarious to be honest, and Mum and I have (not literally) pissed ourselves when she has said it at family night.

I've been trying to make an effort to record her talking because I really don't want to forget how cute and funny she sounds. Pretty soon she'll be speaking perfectly well and my memories of her funny talking ways will fade. The magic of the modern age means it's easier than ever to capture these precious moments, and I know in years to come we'll both get much enjoyment from re-living her funny little talking ways.

Do you have video of your kids talking as toddlers? Did your kids ever struggle to make certain sounds when learning to speak?

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