It's amazing to me how quickly my young children pick up new words and phrases and put them into use. One day they have never heard the word and the next day (or minute!) they are injecting it into their conversation. Take, for example:
On viewing the downstairs toilet yesterday (upon our return from IL), I exclaimed, "This is GROSS!" A few moments later, Liv (4) leaned over and sniffed the toilet, then declared, "You're right. This smells GROSSLY."
The big boys and I were listening to The Luke Reports on our road trip back. L and T had fallen asleep. During one dramatic moment, there were shouts and a sword, and cries. . . followed by the boys' anxious questions: "Is he dead? Was that Luke's blood? Was Luke run through? Did he survive?"
A moment later I heard a wee voice (T) pipe in, "Blood? That Luke's blood? Luke dead? He dead, Mommy?" And so he continued for the next 20 minutes home. Quite impressionable.
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