I can describe Pumpkin’s collection of sounds that mean “water” unless I’m listening to her say it, but it definitely only vaguely sounds anything like the word “water”.
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WAH deh! WAH DEH!
Thats water. Yep. Rivers, ocean, needs a cup to drink etc. Just paid attention as she was speaking now. She pronounces it as 2 words with a clear gap.
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WEE YEH
Complicated hand signs
It was wiggles. She wanted to watch the wiggles on tv. Took me 5 minutes and thinking she wanted me to sing incy wincy or twinkle little star to her.
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The scene: mom and toddler, attempting to leave the house in the morning.
Toddler: “I want my caghmalagh.”
Mom: “I’m sorry, what?”
“My cahwaala.”
“I don’t—“
“Cawlawaa!”
“…”
(Points at wrist.)
“Oh, your comm-link!”
“Yeah!”
Mom finds toddler’s princess watch. Toddler is happy.
End scene.
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COMM LINK omg lol
You are the best mom
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I take no credit! One of her besties got her into Spidey and his Amazing Friends, so it’s nothing but comm-links this and techno-racers that when they are together. I had to get her the watch just because she was the only one without a “comm-link” and the two brothers were making her be a bad guy because of it. (Cue the sobbing “I’m not Doc-Ock!”)
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Last night on the patio: “daddy, I need a favor! I need a favor!” Almost a meltdown but dinner was ready and crisis averted.
First thing this morning when I wake her up she’s asking (and whining urgently) for a favor. What is a favor?!
So I ask…what color is it? “It’s purple”
Where does it live? “On paper!” “And it’s outside…and inside. No, it’s only outside. Miss Alexis put it up with tape”.
Then she very slowly articulates. “I need a spppprrrray bottle!”
Ah! They used spray bottles to spray paint on paper hung up outside yesterday at school 
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We had talked about this at dinner and she said she wanted her own but I didn’t connect it with the “favor” she had just demanded. I told her I actually had just ordered her a spray bottle to play with on our new patio when it’s finally finished and she said “oh!! I didn’t know you ordered one!” 
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Immediately upon getting home from daycare: “Is the patio done? Is my water bottle here??”
(No, patio crew bailed again today, but yes the water bottle is here lol)
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Pirates Booty puffy snack thing. B has been asking for “booty” and for the life of me I couldn’t figure it out. I finally understand now 
She is saying “I want that booty” and her sister is saying “L loves the booty” So, so funny .
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I am cackling
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Me too
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Omg! Yesterday Latte asked us for “big booties”. She kept saying “I want big booties/I like big booties” ended up being that she wanted a pair of baby booties from a story she has, but in bigger sizes
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The scene: In the car on the way to adventures, NPR just rejected in favor of kids music. We drive past an unknown person on the sidewalk.
Toddler: “It’s Kaffi!”
Mom: confused because the gray-haired woman looks nothing like her 10yo friend “Karthie?”
Toddler: “No, Kaffi!”
Mom:trying to remember if the woman is one of the librarians from yesterday’s event, or what any of their names are “Kathy?”
Toddler: “Yeah! I hear Kaffi!”
Mom: how on Earth do you hear Kathy—oh “Raffi? You hear Raffi?”
Toddler: “Yeah, Raffi!”
”Oats and Beans and Barley Grow” winds down the last few measures.
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Bajina bajina bajina bajina
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My guess is the same word D2 is referring to 100x per day when she talks about her “giney”
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Haha yes my thinking was “as in, ‘mommy has a…’?”
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Also, Latte’s preferred term is “wabia”. Vulva (bulba) has not been a successful substitute
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Related question - what do you tell your kids where pee comes out of?
I.e I tell my son pee comes out of his penis and poop comes out of his butt.
Where does girl pee come out of? I’ve been saying vagina but I think that’s wrong. Technically I know it’s the urethra but boys have a urethra too, right? Is it the vulva then? Or do I say urethra?
I tried to google this but didn’t come up with anything but maybe didn’t hit on the right search terms.
Signed -
Anne who knows woefully little about human anatomy
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Yep! Trying to fight him to wear shorts out of the house and explaining we cover our peni and vaginas and bums in public
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I say urethra 
when she asks about boys/daddy, we just say “they also use their urethra to pee, the opening is at the tip of their penis”. She likes and wants details about stuff when she asks questions though, idk it i would approach it different with a kid who isn’t seeking every possible detail lol.
When she was a little younger though we would say things like “now I’m going to wipe your labia” and “time to dab dab your vulva”. Since wiping we’re not digging in to find the urethra specifically, we’re just kinda dabbing the overall vulva area.
Hope that helps! Fun fact: some women DO have their urethra just inside the vagina, and it makes it absolutely horribly hard to put in a urinary catheter.
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