Clara is almost two and her language is exploding, in the last week she started saying two word phrases and adding new words to her vocabulary everyday.  I never know what she’s going to come out with,  some of her phrases are totally new and catch me off guard like “shower curtain.”  Whereas others are just combo’s of some of her common words such as,  “duck poop.”  But no matter what the words, the really fascinating thing is how quickly she can incorporate her new phrases into delay tactics at bedtime. In fact I think it’s possible she has so quickly expanded her vocabulary just to try and stay up a few minutes later.

Just days into two word phrases she now has all the typical tactics down.

It starts with:

” ‘Nother Book?” and once I leave the room moves quickly to:

“WATER MOM!”

From their we head to:

“POOP POTTY!” (Always a large dilemma for the potty training stage. Is it a fake? Is it a false alarm? Is it for real? How can you tell?)

If the girls don’t quiet down when they should the hall light goes off which has always been accompanied by lots of yelling, whining and now new shouts of:

“LIGHT ON!”

As skilled as she is in the delay tactics of the world for better or worse she has one of those mean mothers who doesn’t bend much a bedtime, until she pulls out the big guns…

” ‘Nother Hug?”