Deciphering

When Victor was learning to talk, my cousin Alisa deciphered one of his first and most frequently-used words: mee-nah, said in a sing-songy way. It was the Barney clean-up song, which he must have learned somewhere besides our house.

Victor called food "mabum," and for a long time airplanes were "whoreplanes" (ha!) and umbrellas were "hairbrellas.

Zeke doesn't use the word "eat." He says "take a bite" instead. When he's hungry, he says "take a bite, Mom. Take a bite!"

Zeke had a new one for me this morning. Death Star! Death Star!

The Krispy Kreme hat on the floor clued me in. He meant "donut store."