The Talker is using two new words in his up-to-the-minute lingo: actually and meanwhile.
The scary thing? He worked meanwhile into a sentence today - correctly.
I don't use meanwhile, like, EVER. I do use actually. I'm wondering where meanwhile came from. For a four year old, meanwhile is a 10-cent word! I think actually is worth at least 8 cents. Perhaps they show up in Charlotte's Web, The Talker's favorite rainy day book. (Who am I kidding? He reads it on sunny, warm days, too, when he should be hankering to go outside!)
On our way home from school I told him, "You have quite a vocabulary, young man." "What's a vocabulary, Mom?"
"Hmmm...a vocabulary is all the words that you know and use when you talk or write."
"Oh. Actually, I knew that already."
Okay, maybe he didn't say that last bit, but I often feel pretty humbled by this boy's facility with language and his enjoyment of storing and classifying large quantities of information. Actually, humbled is way too generous. I need to start doing more crossword puzzles in my "free time." Maybe Nana could help me out with this one. The Talker's vocabulary is getting a little too big for my comfort zone! But of course we can't stifle this - it's a sign of good things to come, right?
But this varied and expansive vocabulary is not without its 2-cent words.Yesterday he stepped out on to our front steps with his awesome firetruck rain slicker on and announced, "Oh, crap! It's raining out here!" The Runner informed me that The Talker sounded just like his sweet mommy.
I suppose it's better than the alternative, right?
Oh crap, Now THAT's humbling.
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