She Who Shall Not Be Named is, like her mother, quite the public speaker. I know she gets her excessive verbosity from The Wife's side of the family because I can remember going entire days without talking, living under my bed on a diet of peanut butter crackers and Spider-Man comics. Lacking experience with chatty toddlers, therefore, I naturally feel the need to experiment.
She's got the standard vocabulary down: things like "ba-ba" (bottle), "ma-ma" (mother), "da-da" (annoying prick who won't let me chew on his Rocky and Bullwinkle DVDs). There's also "all right!" - usually accompanied by the throwing up of hands in celebration - and "high five," of which I'm particularly proud. She can say "shoes," "sock," "nose," "baby," "elmo," and "poo poo," which is so goddamed cute I want to puke. But not much has made me as proud as what she said this last weekend.
Friday evening, we're enjoying dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant when the wee one grabbed the bars of the fence next to our table and yelled, "Attica!" Just like I'd been trying to get her do for the last five months, whenever she'd clutch the baby gate and fuss about not being allowed into the kitchen.
Of course, it came out "Appica!", but we all knew what she was trying to say.
I think "You're out of order!" is still a ways off, but I've already started thinking about new Pacino quotes to try out:
"Hoo hah." - Scent of a Woman (she can probably do this one already)
"I want my Cadillac." - Glengarry Glen Ross
"Banana daquiri." - The Godfather, Part II
"Cock-a-roaches." - Scarface (this is actually the only quote from that particular movie I feel comfortable teaching her)
And the ultimate:
"Don't ever take sides against the Family again." - The Godfather
"I keep trying to get out but they pull me back in" or something like that from GF3--
I'm a big fan of watching wildly inappropriate movies with children too young to understand (first born sat through the entire Godfather trilogy with me during various outings by my wife). Can't tell you how many times I tried to teach him to say "Leave the gun, take the canoli".
That is awesome. Language is such a wonderful thing, and I never cease marvelling at the fact that my husband and I are in charge of honing our daughter's skills. Isn't it great? I'm very impressed with the theme thing. Ours was far more scattered.
And watching completely inappropriate material with infants and toddlers is something I look back on fondly. Our child is 8 now, and asks too many questions.
Classic moment, Pete, very funny that you got her to say that.
How about "Say hello to my little friend" from Scarface? Maybe if she gestured to a stuffed Gamera doll or something it wouldn't be so threatening.
I have a feeling that despite my numerous railings against children I would really like your kid, Pete. :)
How about "Say hello to my little friend" from Scarface?
We'll have to content ourselves with "Uh oh, Spaghettios" for now.
Maybe if she gestured to a stuffed Gamera doll or something it wouldn't be so threatening.
No Gamera. Just Godzilla, Gigan, and Angilas.
I have a feeling that despite my numerous railings against children I would really like your kid, Pete.
Oh sure, now that she's not waking up every three hours.
"I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!" The Godfather. Classic. Make sure she says it with the required angst.
Hey, I was BORN to be "Cool Aunt Tracy"...I'll take your kid, buy her anything she wants, stuff her full of junk food, and just when she's about to crash from her manic sugar high, I'll drop her off at your house, tired and whiny. I'll keep 'em until the whining starts, then it's sayonara to Aunt Tracy. ;)
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I tried the easy road, to pull something from "Heat." No luck.
Even if you COULD teach a toddler to say "compassion was yesterday -- today you're wasting my motherfucking time," would you want to?
That's fabulous. As for me, if I am ever so mixed-blessed to have kids, I think I'll teach them Monty Python from an early age. I want a kid who will say "I fart in your general direction" in a faux-French accent.
That and Kids in the Hall. "I'm crrrrushing your head!"
I was scanning the Internet for memorable quotes from William Friedkin's Cruising (1980), and there aren't any. WEAK!