Thursday, February 10, 2011

All Mixed Down

Sophie's suffering from a little condition I like to call "preposition confusion".

She routinely asks to be picked "up" when she really means she wants "down". For example, I might be carrying her downstairs when she catches sight of Avery, the cat. She wants to chase Avery. She says, "Mom, I want up! I want up! Let me up, PLEASE?!"

She generally does not have this problem in reverse, i.e., with her requests to actually be picked up.

She also routinely confuses "on" and "off". As in, "Mom, my sock came on!" or "Mom, you put my boots off?"

It's endearing for now. Unless she turns into one of those people that uses "of" as a verb. Then we'll have problems.

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