Hailey Talk

A conversation with my daughter....

Hailey:   "Baf room!"
Me:        "Hailey do you need to potty?"
Hailey:   "No"
Me:        "Are you sure?"
Hailey:   "No"
Me:        "Do you need to use the potty?"
Hailey:   "No"
Me:        "O.K., lets leave the bathroom"
Hailey:   "NOOO...GOTTA Potty!"
Me:        "You have to potty?"
Hailey:   "Yes"
Me:        "Come here and let me take your diaper off"
Hailey:   "No diaper off"
Me:        "Hailey, I have to take it off if you are going to potty"
Hailey:   "No potty"
Me:        "Hailey do you have to potty?"
Hailey:   "No"

*repeat*

She is also fond of the following phrases...

• "Hailey's Turn!" - spoken after you do or touch...anything.
  
• "Peeese" - (please) very insincerely, with one eye on her Spongebob cartoon
  
• "Come 'ere" - while grabbing one finger to lead you somewhere you didn't intend on going.


• "Ooo KAY!!!" - but the emphasis here is how she says it like a teenager who is being nagged to death.


• "Baf? Baf? Baf? Baf?" - (bath) spoken consistently for 5 minutes.


• "I don wanna..." or "I don like..." - interchangeable


• "Night night?" - but that's only at daycare, not when she is really going to bed.
  
• 'No Mamma, NO!" - this happens whenever I wake up to take care of her instead of her dad.

The latest 'phrase of the day' is "Don't Touch Me!" Which is great when you are trying to change her. She usually says it in a very alarming growl. In fact she say a lot of stuff in that growl....or she just screams, really, really loudly. Her favorite place to scream...that would be in the enclosed, echoey space called the bathtub. Excellent headache inducer- pass me the Tylenol please.

She has definitely mastered the art of taking a single word and making it into a question by saying the last syllable in a higher pitch... "CheeseSTICK?" is a classic example, so is "CupCAKE?".

But for all the stuff she says that makes us crazy, she manages to get in some really sweet things too... "No thank you" is my favorite - it always catches me off gaurd because it is so grown-up. I also love anytime she says "Mama" without screaming. "You o.k.?" is pretty amazing as well, it makes everything feel better from a stubbed toe to the flu!

The best one of all though isn't even a word, it's her totally cute and infectious giggle

...I could listen to that all day.