Tiny Talk Tuesday

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Esmé (22 months) picks up the calculator.

"One, two," as she presses buttons and then raises it to her ear.

"Hello? Hi, Daddy! Bye." Click down goes the calculator.

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She brings the same calculator to me, showing that one of the buttons is popping off and needs to be reinserted. "Hurt!" she explains.

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Esmé has graduated to chewable vitamins and LOVEs them. She even cries when we refuse to give her more than two a day. "Bite-ums! Bite-ums!"

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We went through the whole possession thing at the table the other day. The only problem was that she had put Dolly in HER chair.

"Where's Papa's chair?" I ask.

"Papa chair." She runs over to it.

"Where's Mommy's chair?"

"Mommy chair." Over to that one.

"Where's Dolly's chair?"

"Dolly chair."

"Where's Esmé's chair?" I ask.

She looks bewildered. Then she runs into the bedroom. "Papa! Papa!" she calls. She grabs his hand and directs him to the dining room. "Esmé chair?"

Now we know who's the problem solver in this family.

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One morning we play "count the body parts." She points each out on me proudly: "2 hands." "2 eye." "2 ear." "2 hair."

2 hair? I know my hair is thin, but I think it still sums to more than 2...

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Every day is such fun as new things pop out. Little things, like the complete phrases: "Open that one, too," pointing to the second container of Play Doh.

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Or the logic. When I hang up her favorite Dolly after washing, Esmé wants her down. "No, she's wet," I explain.

She grabs a towel and runs back. "All dry!" she exclaims. So of course I have to take her doll down and let her dry it!

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After a long coughing session, we give her a Hall's cough drop in a desperate attempt to provide some relief. "H!" she says as she looks at the letter on the drop. Wow - there's another letter she's got figured out!

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We've been "playing" board games as I'm introducing her to things like dice and cards and spinners. We were playing "The Cow Jumped Over the Moon," which has four player pieces, including a cow. I explained that it was the cow's turn. So she insisted on taking the cow player piece off the board and making it "turn" the spinner. "Cow turn!"

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And here's our little basket case!