Thursday, November 03, 2011

A Toddler's Monologue

I am listening to Beatrice talking in her room right now during nap time. She has been keeping up an energetic high-speed monologue on a wide range of topics - I decided to transcribe just a short section verbatim:
I love you, Miss Maria, and Miss Charlie, and Mr. Cardo* [sic], I can have a snack with Mr. Cardo! And we all play outside, with my friends, and with Ishan, and Madeline [sic], and Nicholas, and Maya, and Miss Charlie, and Amy and Miller, Jack and Summer, and Baby Ivy**. And a doggie, and the doggie went potty, and I went potty, I went potty in my little chair, and Mommy goes potty in the big chair, I went potty in my little chair and got a treat. But Arthur is too little! I love my brother, Arthur is my favorite, and tuna fish - tuna fish! [sings part of "Old McDonald"] A rooster, and a dragon, is a crocodile. And there was an emu! And the worm ate his food. And then they were friends! And then the worm went to his little home. And his daddy was a beaver. And the daddy beaver! And the baby, the big one and the little one and then LMNOPHIJKLMNO! [singing] Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! And there's a little bird, a toucan, it's a toucan! Mommy, Mommy, it's a toucan, he's outside! Invite him inside for dinner. This is Arthur's bed. Mommy, the dragon is from the [IKEA] play area. We can eat meatballs. You cook them in olive oil! It's not a dragon, it's a crocodile, he lives at IKEA, he lives with Arthur....
She has seriously been doing this for more than 20 minutes now.

*Her teachers Miss Maria, Miss Charlie, and Mr. Ricardo.
**Her school friend is actually Adeline, but Beatrice confuses her with the storybook character Madeline.

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