Chit chats

I just rang home to find out what time Bax' advent festival was this weekend. Bax answered the phone with a very clear "Hello"

Reminded me of Andrew "I am the littlest Lang" Lang who at 3 years old answered the phone "Good morning Andrew Lang speaking can I help you?" , He's nearly 20 now.

Any way. Bax said Hello and then proceeded to tell me all about his day using just one words and some two and three word strings. When i asked to whom I was speaking he said Dada which is his name for himself not his name for G which is Daddy.

He is very into names at the moment. He knows that "Bubba" is a "Bay-bee" called "Izzie" and also called "Peachy" (he's not sure who the heck Isabella is) . And he knows that "Dada" is a "Dada" called "Bug". And he calls out "GeeeBeee" which is what i call G (G.B.). He also knows that Mummy is called Mum but he thinks Jess is the cat off Postman Pat. He often asks about Poppa and Granny (who he calls RobRob) and after Pat and Kate (who babysat the other day) and if we drive anywhere near Henderson he starts talking about Heidi and Miss O (who he calls Lily). He also knows Nana from photos and the phone and Gran (who he calls Gan) from parpels and postcards.

This all reminds me of a funny thing that happened at the School Fair the other week I forgot to tell you about.

We were eating some lunch and I was sitting on a bench and he was sitting next to me. This older kid came up and kneeled next to us facing the other way and he cupped his hands around his mouth and yelled "Mum" "Muuuum" to get his mother's attention, she was quite a way away. Then he left.

About three minutes later Bax got up, kneeled up exactly like the kid had, cupped his hands around his mouth and bellowed "Mumm" "Muuum" in the general direction of where the older kid's mum had been. Then Bax looked at me and smiled as if to say that he was taking the Mick out of the other kid. He knew he wasn't calling me but he thought the other kid was so pushy and bold that he wanted a piece of that. He'd done it so perfectly mimicking him. It was really funny, odd, but funny too.

That was a bit garbled. Read it out loud when it gets like that - I'm told it helps.