From the Mouth of a Four-Year-Old: Declaration

After jumping jumping jumping rolling jumping jumping rolling jumping on the trampoline Yuan declares, "So awesome!"

From the Mouth of a Four-Year-Old: Jollibee

Yuan spots that Filipino fastfood bee: Jobilee!!!

Conversations with a Three-Year-Old: Use the Right Word

Me (to Fin and Yuan): Hello kiddos!
Fin: Who's kiddos?
Me: You are a kiddo.
Fin: I am a mermaid.

Conversations with a Three-Year-Old: Broken

Fin sees a photo of her on a white horse, taken earlier today.
Fin: White horse. Indi move. Guba.

Conversations with a Three-Year-Old: Horse

Dennis U: Fin, do you want to ride a horse?
Fin: I want to ride a unicorn.

Conversations with a Three-Year-Old: -ing

Fin: Yaya kwa-ing milk.

Translation: Yaya is getting milk.

Conversations with a Four-Year-Old: Sleep

Mommy Cy: Yuan, let's turn off the lights na kay I can't sleep.
Yuan: Close your eyes, Ma Cy.

Conversations with a Three-Year-Old: Little Girl

Mommy Kitchie: I love you, little girl.
Fin: Me not a little girl, I'm a big girl!

Conversations with a Three-Year-Old: No Money

Fin sees a pink bike on TV: Nice bicycle! I wanna buy.
Me: But we don't have money.
Fin: Save your money.

Conversations with a Three-Year-Old: Fat

Mommy Kitchie: Fin, you're fat na. You can't carry your body.
Fin: Mommy, I need yoga.

Conversations with a Three-Year-Old: Flashcards

Fin and mommy and flashcards...
Mommy: What's this?
Fin: Giraffe.
Mommy shows a picture of a spider: This?
Fin: Ewwww spider.
Mommy shows a picture of a hippo.
Fin: Hip..
Mommy: ..po..
Fin: Hippo..
Mommy: ..po..
Fin: hippopo..
Mommy: tamus
Fin: hitototatus
Mommy shows the picture of the hippo again: What's this?
Fin: ........panda.

Conversations with a Three-Year-Old: Beach

This morning...
Me: Are you going to the beach?
Fin: I'm going to Shangri-la. Fin will swim, eat, sleep, swim.

Future beach bum. Sosyal na beach bum.

Conversations with a Three-Year-Old: Scooter

Fin is riding her scooter around the house.
Richard: You have a nice bike Fin.
Fin: No, it's a scooter.

Conversations with a Three-Year-Old: Introductions

We have a visitor at home, his name is Richard.
Fin hears my sister's carhorn...
Fin to Richard: You want to meet Kate?

Conversations with a Three-Year-Old: Eat

Daddylo to Fin: Tell Mommyla kaon na.
Fin to Mommyla: Mommyla, you wanna eat?

English speaking ha!

Conversations with a Three-Year-Old: Help

Fin says to Bebe: I wanna help you laba (do laundry)!

True Story

True story: We didn't know there'd be a water interruption today. Wala gyud mi naka pondo ug tubig. Because Jake (the dog) ate the notice.

Conversations with a Three-Year-Old: Driver

Getting ready to pick up mama from Park Mall...
Fin: You're bilin!
Khonie: Kinsa magdrive kung bilin ko?
Fin (looks around and sees my sister): Kate!

Conversations with a Three-Year-Old: Chickens

Mommyla: Look, Fin, your chickens are big na. Let's cook them.
Fin: Noooooo!!! Kaluoy! Kaluoy! Kaluoy!