Word association
Sarah’s always been a good talker. Practically as soon as she started talking, she was using complete sentences, and soon afterward she began amazing us with her mastery of idioms and expressions. Now, based on two things she said yesterday, it seems that she’s started to take language a step further:
- Kelli asked Sarah if she wanted to watch a movie. Sarah said, “Yes, I want ‘Charlie hash browns’.” We had to ask her to repeat it before we figured out that she wanted the Charlie Brown Christmas movie.
- After supper, Sarah came running up to us saying “I found Mickey Mouse!” I followed her into her bedroom, where she started reaching under her dresser to try to pull out some toys that had gotten pushed underneath. After a bit of adventure (in which my hand got stuck under the dresser and Kelli had to come rescue me) we got all the toys out from under the dresser, including a toy ring, a toy cell phone, and more. Sarah seemed to be looking around for something else, and we told her that we’d gotten everything out from under the dresser. “There wasn’t any Mickey Mouse,” I said. Pointing to the “bathtub” part from the game “Mouse Trap,” I said “That was the thing that I saw when I first looked under the dresser—that was the thing you were pointing at.” “Oh yeah! That’s it!” she said, grabbing the tub and walking out. Kelli and I just looked at each other, puzzled for a moment, before Kelli finally figured it out. “Mickey Mouse—Mouse Trap.” I just shook my head at that one.