I Can’t Understand What My Toddler Is Saying

Our 2 yr. old son is working very hard on talking, and I think he’s doing great.  At least several times a day, however, he starts to say something, we absolutely cannot figure out what he’s trying to communicate, and he gets very frustrated.  Poor guy–this talking thing isn’t so easy 🙁  This morning, the particular subject of distress was, as best as I could determine, “a blue bunny”, which he repeatedly screamed while pointing at the kitchen sink.  To my knowledge, we do not keep blue bunnies in the kitchen sink.  After significant effort in trying to figure this one out and reason with a 2 yr. old (how’s that for banging your head against a brick wall?), the situation becomes desperate (we are of course trying to do all the thousand things that Sat. mornings are meant for and are also trying to get out the door before the morning disappears).  I scream up the stairs to my husband, “CAN YOU JUST GO GET HIM A BLUE BUNNY?!” At this point, I’m not caring if he has to go to the pet store and spray paint a freakin’ bunny blue, just get the thing in my house.

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Meredith

Meredith blogs at The Mom of the Year, where she dedicatedly earns her title one epic parenting fail at a time, offering quick, relatable laughs for fellow parents and all their empathizers. She has been part of several best-selling anthologies, featured on prominent sites such as Huffington Post, In the Powder Room and BlogHer, and loves her role as the Executive VP/Operations Manager of The BlogU Conference. When she's not breaking up fights over Legos and juice boxes, she remains fully committed to sharing a less serious look at the world of parenting.

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