Tin-isms
When Tin was around 10 months he started singing this song and it went gunda, gunda, gunda da and now that song has progressed to him using his voice to mime an instrument – he puts the recorder or his drumstick up by his neck, looks in the mirrors in the den and begins his performance, ammmmmm, ummmmmm, ommmmmm – wailing on his horn.
Other than picking up our erudite language like fucking jerk and oh shit, he is really mastering both English and Croatian in a remarkable way. He now knows several Croatian nursery rhymes as well as songs like Take Me Out To The Ballgame.
But the best Tin-ism happened last night. He has the toddler’s habit of shouting commands at us, his favorite is No of course, but the other fav is Get Down. So everytime he shouts Get Down to me, I do it, I get down, I swing my booty and get funky. So last night as we were reading his bedtime book on the sofa, he commanded Tatjana, “Get Down!” as he squirmed off her lap and took his book to the coffee table so he could obsess over the musical instruments in his Jazz Fest book and I said, “Tin, how does Mommy get down?” And he started shaking his booty. Love it!
January 14th, 2011 at 11:56 am
These are the charming years, the ones I loved best about raising children. If you’re lucky, and if Jupier aligns with Mars properly or some such, it’ll even be fun after they’re all grown and become friends as well. If I ever get to meet Tin in person, I’m going to get down for him. So I’ll begin practicing now so I’ll be limber enough.
January 14th, 2011 at 2:25 pm
Alice I hope you will be hopping about Indian style while you are traveling. And I definitely hope to have the chance to meet in person.