March 25, 2010

Conversations with Eliana recently...

Upon seeing our house as we drove up the street:

Eliana (smiling):  I want to go home!

Me:  What are you going to do there?

Eliana:  Play!

[We pull up in front of the house and I put the car in park]

Eliana (screaming):  I don't want to go home!

Me:  What?  What do you want to do?

Eliana:  I want to go for a little drive!

[This is what I tell her we're doing when I take her to the car to get her to sleep.  I thought maybe she was trying to tell me that she actually wanted to take a nap.  I put the car back into drive and pulled back out into the street.]

Eliana (screaming):  I don't want to go for a drive!

Me:  What?!  What do you want to do?

Eliana:  I want to go home!

[I would have put my head in my hands but I was driving.]

Upon seeing the cup I brought her this afternoon:

Eliana (fussing):  I don't want that cup!  I want a glass!  Why you bring me that cup?!

Me:  Your glass was dirty.  I thought you would like this cup.  [I set the cup down.]

Eliana (fussing more):  Where my glass?  Why you bring me that cup?

Me:  You don't have to use it.  [I removed the cup from the table and began walking toward the kitchen.]

Eliana (still fussing):  I want that cup!  Why you take my cup?!

Me:  Sigh

Why is it that the more my children learn how to talk the more they fuss and don't want to use their words?