Friday, April 1, 2011

Do You Understand?

About 2-3 days, for 2-3 hours, Toddler attends the Day School (Day Care) located in the same building where Husband and I both work.  We've seen the Day School routine at least 100 times: morning playtime; line up for potty before lunch; then they sit in little chairs at little tables and eat lunch.  After lunch, one by one each child gets cleaned up and lays down on a mat with his or her blankie for naptime.

During pre-sleep cuddles, Toddler gave me this version of that same routine (Each "Do you understand?" was punctuated with a  firm pause; Toddler's eyes,  would turn to meet mine, shining brightly in the dark; then he'd look back to the ceiling as he resumed his story):
"We sit on our little chair.  We don't stand on da chair.  We don't run 'round da chair. We sit on the chair and den we eat our food.  Pick up...don' pick up da chair.  Sit it  down.  We eat our food and sit on da little chair.
Do you understand? ...
When the kids toot, they should got to toot in da potty.  When the kids go poo, they need to go poo to da potty.
Do you understand? ...
When da kids poo in a line, they need to whisper real quietly.
Do you understand? ...
I lay down on da mat.  I see a little girl is slipping off da....she is sleeping and da cwocodio (crocodile) is carrying us on his back.  Da cwocodio is carrying us on his back and we should whisper like dis and if  we go poo we should whisper.
Do you understand? Mom.  Mom!  Do you understand?"

Obviously, his teachers ask "Do you understand?" to kindly make sure he gets what he should be doing.   I just wonder what he responds!

-The bit about the chair has been abridged, he talked about "da little chairs" for quite a while!
-He's suddenly stopped calling us "Mommy" and "Daddy" last night.  We have no idea why!  It's a little sad.  On top of it, we cut his hair short and this time there are no curls left.  He looks so much less Toddler-ish that when says "Mom!" so assertively the full effect is that it seems he just jumped forward a full year in just 24 hours!

1 comment:

  1. He's amazing.

    Glad to have posts like these.

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