The best thing about Brin is that you never know what is going to come out of her mouth. Sometimes I think if you looked through her ear with one of those doctor-lookey-light-things you would see a hamster running on a little wheel, powering her random thoughts. Last night we were at Panda Express between erands and dance class. She had her little kids meal all packed up and I told her, "If you are finished, please throw that in the trash". She answered, "NOOOOOO. I'm leftovering it". Left-over-ing. That killed me. It's a new verb, as in to 'left-over' something. Caroline had better speech and vocabulary at age three than Brin does now at five. I think I prefer her this way, though, because she is always a kick in the pants.
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Leftovering is now my new word too, thanks to Brinley. She is adorable! And I had fun catching up on all the latest happenings with the Burke family - it is nice to see you blogging more often these days!
So as a linguistics geek, I have to point out that taking a noun and turning it into a verb, such as Brin did with "left over-ing" is pretty common in English. One of my favorite ones I heard was when someone told me that they "totally queer eyed" their bathroom over the weekend. I also have also heard someone say that they were going to "de-angel on the head of a pin-ify" a concept.
So she is actually verb adept at the rules of English.
I love it! I am so excited to get to see you girls soon!
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