Lizzy-isms

A few Lizzy words and sayings worth sharing and recording before we forget them:


Words she has invented:

Trimenthesy: One-sixtieth of a second

Fewnormous: 100,000 times as big as our house


Fun pronunciations/variations of real words (some of which she is starting to lose as she reads more and realizes the order of letters in words):

planio (piano)
calipeter (catipillar)
sackerment (sacrament)
fravrite (favorite)
Cairline (Caroline)
oppositical (opposite)
hostipital (hospital)
permentheses (parentheses)


Observations:

"There's no such thing as magic, but there are magic words." (She got part of this from a Barney show about saying "please" and "thank you"; maybe the whole phrase.)

When I asked Lizzy to bless the food one morning, she consented but first corrected my language: "You mean 'say the prayer.' Heavenly Father's the one that blesses."

One day we were listening to one of my Lord of the Rings soundtracks in the car. She wanted to continue listening when we went inside, so I brought it in and put it in our three-CD stereo. When the soundtrack ended, the next CD, which happened to be a CD of Primary songs, automatically began to play. Shocked by the dramatic change in music (think Mordor juxtaposed against carefree children), Lizzy said: "This isn't Lord of the Rings. [pause] Is this a mix?"

Sometime early this summer, Christine or I commented that it had been a quiet month (can't remember now what that was in reference to; I believe it was some metaphorical sense, like a quiet news day or something like that). At the time, however, Caroline was in the middle of a long sad spell; she had been very sad all day every day. When Lizzy heard our comment about it being a quiet month, she responded matter of factly: "It's not a quiet month for us."

Several weeks ago a rather spectacular thunder storm rolled through one evening. Christine went into Lizzy's room to comfort the nervous and not sleeping child. After Christine assured Lizzy that she would be safe, Lizzy responded, "But in Reader's Digest it told about a house that got hit by lightning." (The curse of an early reader.)

And my "fravrite" observation: "Dad, you're ingenious!"