Cake! And Other Words

We had cake on Zusha's birthday. Birthday ice cream cake! And obviously Adi remembers, because when I took it out the leftovers, she ran towards the box and yelled, "Keek! Keek!"
And just in case there weren't enough Adi vocabulary posts recently, here's one more. What should I do? This girl has a new word almost every day!

"I don't know"
 Adi started this a couple of months ago, and she thought she was all that for figuring out a valid response to any question.
"Adi, how old are you?"
"I-woe."
"Where does this puzzle piece belong?"
"I-woe."
And if you insist that she really does know, and should tell you, she spreads out her hands, palms up, for emphasis and says, "I! Woe!"

"Why"
 It started as "I" (not "why") said in response to any time I said "no."
"Adi, don't throw your food."
"I?"
"Because then it gets dirty."
"I?"
"Because the floor is dirty."
"I?"
"Because you are a messy baby and I never am able to keep it clean."
"I?"
"Because!"
And then she graduated to the proper "why."
"Adi, it's time to go to sleep."
"Why?"
"Because you need enough sleep to function normally."
"Why?"
"Because I need you to sleep so I can function normally."
"Why?"
"Because it's 11 PM!"

"Sorry"
One time Adi stepped on Mel's tail by mistake. I told her to say sorry to the cat. She said, "Wha-wee, ai-nya!" Since then, I've caught her using "wha-wee" appropriately a couple of times.

"Excuse me"
When Gedalya was little, he said, "Es-mee-mee-mee" for excuse me. The boys and I were reminiscing about it, and Adi was listening. Apparently she already knew what excuse me meant, because she adopted Gedalya's baby word, since it's easier to say. Once I was going down our steps with the carriage, and Adi was standing at the bottom. She saw me coming towards her, said, "Meemeemee" and moved away!

"Bunny"
 Adi started to call all her stuffed animals "bunny."


"Penguin"
Adi has a favorite stuffed animal. It's a penguin pillow pet whom she calls Bunny as well. I didn't want to correct her, because it was so cute. Anyway, I figured "penguin" was too complicated for her. But I did throw that info out there, that it's a penguin. 
Once we were in a store that sold these same penguins. Adi took one to play, and when it was time to leave, she put it back and said, "Bye, weengween!" 


"Sit"
 Adi tells me to sit when I lie down next to her to put her to sleep. Sit, Mama! Because if you lie down, it means bedtime for Adi. She says it "Theet!" This means that "Haya" is no longer used for "sit." Although sometimes she still uses it to mean sit on a ride.

"Toy"
Pretty self explanatory. It surprised us when we heard Adi say it a last week. Toddled over to a zippered bag of toys and demanded that I open it for her. "Toy!"

"Bug"
 We saw a bug and I showed it to Adi. "Dyatap," I said, using her adorable word. "Boog!" Adi replied. She says it between buge and boog. Too cute!

"iPad"
 She calls it "neem," but once she saw Zusha holding it and ran to him, yelling, "iPad!" Zusha and I exchanged a look to make sure we heard her right. We did!

"Camera"
There is a story as to how Adi came to say camera, but she did, today. Took the kids' camera off the table and said, "Ca-ma." I'll started writing up the background that led her to say this word, but then it morphed into its own post. :)


"Open"
Perhaps the cutest and funniest one of them all, it's not even a real word. When Adi hands me a snack that she wants, she does this.

Just the O of "open" and no sound coming out. She's a funny one, that child!