Sayings and expressions (and photodump)
I’ve been meaning to post one of these for some time, just the funny things Fiona’s been saying lately.
One day we were walking in Target and she suddenly said “Rocket Cool!” I asked her what she meant and she replied “when you see something really, really cool you say ‘Rocket Cool’” and did her “cool” pose with two thumbs up. I really need to get a picture of that pose, it’s very funny, and she does it when she dances to “cool music” like “Speed Turtle” or anything on her favorite radio station. (Seriously, she somehow found this station, figured out how to program it to a pre-set button and turns it on whenever she’s bored with what I’m listening to.)
After reading one of our favorite books at bed time I said “good-night, sweet potato” and she immediately said “good-night, smashed apato” and I laughed so now we say it almost every night.
All along Fiona has wanted us to act out little scenes with her, but they are getting more and more intricate. One favorite is “Fiona and the tooth-fairy”. It starts with me as Fiona, going to bed and Fiona, as Mama. There’s a whole series of required dialogue, asking for a bed-time story and so on. Then I go to sleep, the tooth fairy sneaks in and puts a coin under my pillow, I wake up and call for Mama, then we switch and do the whole thing with the roles reversed. I doubt she’ll still be happy with a penny when she gets old enough to actually loose a tooth.
The other game is a bit more varied. The basic plot is that Fiona finds something, like a basket of toys, and comes to the door as the toy-man. I have to say “Now, who could that be?” before I answer and then we discuss who she is and what she’s doing. I start to close the door, then say, “oh, I almost forgot” and give her something back. Sometimes she rides her “bike” up to the door, sometimes she’s a cat, a kid (for that she puts on a hoodie and sneakers, nothing else) or a girl named Haylee.
That’s something else new, characters and animals have actual names. For a long time her animals were “tiger”, “kitty”, “lion” and so on. But the big dog we got her for her birthday is Jase (after Jason and the Argonauts) and last night she gave a series of made up names to all the animals we took to our slumber party. I couldn’t even remember them all then, so there is no hope now, but it was something like “Coco the rabbit”, so the kind of animal is still quite important.
She’s also been telling me “I have a new friend. Her name is Deepa and she’s a little girl, too.” or “This is my friend Skeeta. He’s a little boy.” The names are always changing, and they aren’t classic imaginary friends, she doesn’t talk to them or play with them, she just introduces them to me and tells me about them.
Fiona is a prodigious story teller, and I’ll try to get a story down on paper soon.