Study Guide

Since family is arriving around July 2nd for a long weekend visit, I thought I would create a list of Katie's odd vocabulary. She generally pronounces words correctly, but there are a few words or phrases that often make us laugh because we just can't figure out where she comes up with them.

1. Flip-Flops = Foo-Farts
2. Charolette (Whitaker) = Shart
3. Strawberry Milk = Chocatte Berry
4. Yogurt = Yurt
5. Robot = Boobot
6. Fruit Juice Snacks = Yummy Fun or Juicies
7. Spoon = Boose, sometimes boosey
8. Madagascar Movie = Animals
9. Most names that start with the letter J = Jeremy (but she can say "Josh")
10. Tom and Jerry = Jeremy
11. Mickey Mouse = Mouse
12. Napkin = Cane-keen
13. Kitchen = Chicken
14. Caroline = Coin
15. Coffee = Chachee
16. Cracker = Caw-Caw

The following three words/references are used interchangeably and are sometimes hard to decipher:

1. Danimals = Momo (she can clearly say "animals" when referring to the movie Madagascar, but cannot for the life of her say "danimals.")
2. Grandma = Mama
3. Nemo = Momo

Katie is very polite and will usually say "peeze" and "thank you or thanks" for most anything. Likewise, she will eagerly apologize for wrong doings when prompted. When you yell for her she will yell back, "OK, Mommy/Daddy, I coming." But, she is also demanding and requests that we "A'mon, Mommy/Daddy! Follow me!"

Katie is very loud and doesn't have much of a quiet button. She doesn't like it when babies are sleeping, so she will get close to their face, whisper "baby seeping," then out of no where scream "wake up!" She loves how things echo and is always yelling "echo" everywhere to see if her voice will indeed echo. She is so fascinated when it actually does.

We've recently discovered that Katie is the life of the party. Hmm, I wonder where she gets that???