Overheard Conversation With Baby
Categories: I was in Target, wandering the aisles, when a grandmother and a young mom came by pushing an infant in a shopping cart. The baby was saying “dadadada.”
The mom leaned in to her baby and said, “Say mama.”
The baby replied, “papapapa.”
The mom straightened up, disappointed, and said to her mother beside her, “It’s not fair! He can’t have two names when I don’t even have one, yet.”
* * *
I remember when Calfgrit8 was just learning to talk in sentences, and I tried to teach him to say, “I love mama.” When Cowgrit was in another part of the house, or out of the car:
Me to the little Calfgrit: “Say, ‘I love Mama.'”
Calfgrit: “I wuv mama!”
Repeat half a dozen times to make sure he got it.
When Cowgrit came back into the room or got back into the car:
Me to the little Calfgrit: “Calfgrit, you wanna say something?”
Calfgrit: confused look.
Me: “Don’t you have something to say to mommy?”
Calfgrit: big grin.
Me: “What were you just saying?”
Calfgrit to me: “I wuv you!”
Me: “Thank you, but don’t you want to say something to mommy?”
Calfgrit to Cowgrit: “I wuv Daddy!”
Me: shrug shoulders, sigh.
Bullgrit
