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| The painter's fivete is coloring. |
Her Royal Cuteness has always had a way with words - and by that I mean to say that she makes up her own words. Sometimes they are very useful.
Once I was explaining to her what a forte was:
Me : A forte is something that you are really good at. For instance if you are artistic then painting may be your forte.
HRC : Then barking must be the dog's fivete.
We use that word all of the time now.
fivete : (five-tay) noun, one's really, really strong point
Yesterday we went to check on the work on our house, and she was very upset that the carpet layers had scratched her wall. She kept insisting that the carpenters come back to fix the paint. I tried to tell her that the painters would fix it, not the carpenters. I really wasn't catching on to her lexicon...
This morning's continuation of the conversation almost made me wreck the car as I was driving her to the bus stop.
HRC : Those carpenters had better come and fix my wall.
Me : Honey, carpenters work with wood. Are you trying to say that the carpet guys should be called carpeters?
HRC: No, they are carpenters not carpeters.
Me: Okay. They are not carpeters. So who are the guys that work on the wood?
HRC: The people who work with wood are wooderers.
Me : So, Jesus was a wooderer?
HRC : Well, DUH, they nailed him to WOOD not CARPET!
Sometimes I have no reply....
I love this.
ReplyDeletehahahah Love it :)
ReplyDeletefabulous!
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That's one smart cookie.
ReplyDeleteYou could have a lot of fun with adding 'erer onto the end of nouns.
ReplyDeleteThanks all! HRC will be appearing Fri and Sat nites at the Sunset lounge - $5 cover.
ReplyDeletethat made my brain feel confused.
ReplyDeleteAt least your husband has a full grasp of the English language. He is quite precise in his vocabulary, from what I hear. There is hope for your daughter.
ReplyDeleteGreat blog, by the way!
"They nailed him to wood, not carpet."
ReplyDeleteYour kid is hysterical and damn if she doesn't make perfect sense!
Sherilin : You feel confused after one conversation - try living with this kind of logic!
ReplyDeleteAnon: Very funny, hun...
Jayne: She is a funny kid - got a double dose of insanity from her dad's and my genes.
This reminds me of my daughter, Lindy, who loved to use her nativity set to tell the story of Adam and Steve. How those two had kids is still a mystery to me.
ReplyDeleteMike : THat's great! My son got a nativity set when he was in preschool and called it his ACTIVITY set. He would dive bomb the sheep with the angel. We're an interfailth family so we just go with the flow...
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