Wednesday, December 18, 2013

humidi fire!

1.

During the summer, we saw the hot air balloon launch for Independence Day.  We got right up close to the balloons -- enough that we could feel the heat every time they turned on the fire.  Ever since, Madeleine always makes the sound of fire whenever we talk about fire.  I don't know how to spell the sound... something like: "fffffhhhhhuhhuhhhh"

2.

A few months ago, we had a fire in our fire place.  Kimmy was over and taught Madeleine that the fire was dangerous by saying, "Danger!" and moving her hands back and forth as if to say stay away.  So Madeleine often says "danger!" when she's near the fire place.

3.

We've all been sick lately (colds, coughs and congestion) and so we've had the humidifier running in Madeleine's room at night to alleviate that a bit.  Since we narrate everything we do when Madeleine's around (We're not the only parents that do this, are we?  We're not crazy, right?) she knows that it's called a humidifier.

One morning, we went to turn off the humidifier and she said, "Fire!  ffffhhhhhhhhhh!  Danger!"  Because a humidifier is just a humid kind of fire to her :)

2 comments:

Joe said...

Funny!

For some reason this reminds me how incorrectly I hear lyrics that I have sung for years and then discover the true lyrics one day when I read the real lyrics. Reading saps all my creativity.

Alisa Haggard said...

Wow! She is definitely paying attention to words and drawing her own conclusions about things. I'm sure there is some fancy child development term for that. But impressive none the less.