But when she wakes up, she's a bit like me. If Bob talks to me about something when he's leaving for work in the morning (and I'm still in bed, mostly asleep), I will often respond like I know what I'm talking about. But I have no memory of it afterward.
Caroline, however, is just in her own zone when she wakes up. It's best to give her space so she can enter the world of the living in her own sweet time.
Anyway, Friday afternoon, I had to wake her up from her nap because we were going to meet Bob's mom for supper at the Olive Garden. I woke her up, knowing I would incur her wrath just by rousing her. So I quickly followed up "It's time to get up" with "We're going out to eat with Nena! At the Olive Garden!" She thought that through, and then remembered that the Olive Garden is next to a car wash that she loves.
But since she'd just awakened, she did not possess the ability to sort through her collection of nouns and come up with the appropriate ones. So she said, "Are we going to go see that thing with that thing in that thing?" And I, knowing exactly what she was talking about, because I AM HER MOTHER, said, "Yes, honey. We are."Oh my goodness, I love my kids.
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How adorable.
I find it amusing that I am able to understand much of the actual words Jonathan can say, and thus I am the translator. However he still babbles a great deal, but he throws in a few words he knows, so people always look at me in desperation for a translation. But I just have to shrug my shoulders and say, "I have no idea!"
so cute. I love it! Maleigh is the same way. I'm glad I got a super secret Mommy decoder ring when she was born or I would be LOST!
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