she copies my cat laughs as the word leaps into my voice
she sticks to her own word for cat "Onabooboo!" she chants
"C-A-T...spells. . ?" I prompt her "Onabooboo!" she screams
I leave her to her word for now a cat must be an "ONABOOBOO!"
I smile as she her own little Adam names things as she wants them to be
and so darling daughter invents her own language words flock to her
even now all this time later I still pause before the word "C-A-T" try hard not to call it an "ONABOOBOO!"
Amazing that this little scrap has survived...a torn bit of a child's exercise book. I was teaching my little one to spell cat and so I turned the letters into a basic cat drawing. She then copied not only the word but the word-drawing which highly amused her. She thought every word could be transformed so. But she insisted that a cat was nothing but( to use her evolving language)nothing but an ONABOOBOO! Where that emerged from inside her imagination I have no idea but still to this day a cat is and always will be an ONABOO BOO!