Things I'm hearing these days

• "Thas so funny" or "funny" - Tess says this a lot. Sometimes she will sit by herself, laughing at her own jokes, saying, "funny, funny." Other times, she runs away and it's quiet for a long time. When I go looking for her, she squeals and laughs as I come into the room and says, "I hide. Thas so funny." (I so wish I could convey the inflection that she uses to say it. It really is funny.) Today I found Tess hidden in a corner of my room holding my hand cream. She knew I would take it away from her, so when I showed up she gave me a guilty look and said, "funny!"

• "One and all done." That's what I tell her when she's begging for more Youtube or Shaun the Sheep videos. I tell her that we can watch ONE more and then all done. And she nods her head enthusiastically and says "one. One and all done!"

• She surprises me these days with the words she knows. We were playing with play dough today, rolling it into thin logs, and she said, "beans," which I totally didn't expect.

• "Away" She likes to put things away, and tells me, "away" when she wants help putting things away. There's also a page in the Corduroy book that ends with the word, "away." The Mom and girl walk away from Corduroy. Yesterday Tess was reading the book to herself, and she brought it to me to show me the page and said with a very serious face, "Mama, away. Away!"

• "Tess watch" as she pushes a chair or stool over to better see what I'm doing. When we paint or draw or do anything kind of special, she will often pause before we begin and then run to find Monkey, park him in a chair and say, "Aa-aa-ee watch."

• "Eet" She knows the word eat, and uses it appropriately, but when she's playing in her room she'll often yell out, "Mama eet!" She taps the floor next to her to let me know that she wants me to come sit with her while she plays.  

• "Oh-Tay" (OK) I have started to notice that I say, "OK" a lot. I'll say it as I'm making a mental list of everything we need to take with us when we leave the house. I say it when we're going to change activities. I just say it. And now, Tess says it too. 

• "Tum" (Come) She grabs my hand and guides me into her play space, pushing my legs at times to position me just so.