Tonight at dinner my husband and I were taught a lesson in names, or descriptions, if you will. If you read my blog then you probably gathered that my 1 1/2 year old loves Elmo. We watch the same 'Elmo's World' on DVD practically everyday. Well apparently he is absorbing more from the DVD than we realized. Let me just give you a quick introduction to the characters in 'Elmo's World'; Elmo (of course), a talking computer, highly energized writing desk and Elmo's very important, very loved goldfish named Dorothy. Man do kids love this!
As we sat down to dinner tonight and watched our son eat his yummy halibut, we remarked out loud to one another how much he loved fish. To this our son looked down at his mostly eaten halibut and began handing pieces of it to my husband repeating, what we thought at the time to be, no dogthie, dogthie nice. So, like any incredibly perceptive parents we began trying to interact with our child by saying things like, Oh yes the doggies are outside, or yep the doggies would like to eat that but it is for you, and so on. We could not figure out why he was acting like we were eating dog!?
It wasn't until the distraught little fellow threw in "Elmo dogthie" that we realized he was saying Dorothy! To his little horror he thought we were eating Elmo's beloved goldfish Dorothy. Once we deciphered what he was actually saying was, No Dorothy, Dorothy nice, we realized the damage was done. Dinner was most definitely over for him. Plus we had to put on the Elmo DVD to prove to him that we were in fact NOT eating Dorothy, and that she was living a very happy life inside our DVD player.
So lesson learned. Do not call what your eating at night the same name as the cute little animals your child is busy learning about during the day.
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