Precious Pearl-isms

Originally Posted Jan. 25, 2009 @ lifeinatown.wordpress.com

Pearl is 3 years old and, in her parents’ completely biased opinion, exceptionally cute. Here are some representative Pearl-isms, for your enjoyment:

Instead saying “Sorry” (as Pearl must often be coaxed to say, especially to brother Ben), she says: “Farry.”

In like manner, “sweater” is pronounced “fwetter.”

To Pearl, the pronoun “I” is nonexistent – in its place, she substitutes “My”:

“My need a drink of water.”
“My love you.”
“My don’t want to wear a fwetter.”

Pearl’s all-purpose curse word / insult / expression of exasperation is “Shut up.” (OK, we know this is not really cute, but sometimes we find it hard not to smile at her usage.) Pearl seems to invent excuses for uttering this powerful phrase. For example, she might tell us: “Hannah told me to shut up, and that was not really nice.” (She might not have seen Hannah for well over a week, and it’s almost certainly a false accusation, but the ‘reporting’ premise allows her to say ‘shut up’ without actually saying it.)

Pearl, like her Papa, loves to sing, and she usually does so with tremendous enthusiasm and scant regard (or is it oblivion?) for accuracy of pitch. (Much like Will.)

Pearl is a chatterbox. Her enlightening explanations about the world and the way things work is peppered with the conjunction “be-tuz” (because).

One of Pearl’s most frequent, most adorable phrases is: “Pick it up me.” And we do.

Original Comments:

1. Too cute!!
Comment by SeekingPlumb — January 25, 2009 @ 6:37 pm

2. One of my friends has a son who yells, “Hugga me…Hugga me..” in the middle of the night. They run and pick him up. Wouldn’t you?
Comment by Sarah — January 26, 2009 @ 8:59 pm