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where's the beep?
Friday, April 17th, 2020 03:01 amMy 2 year old grand-niece reminds me of baby Groot sometimes. They must have modeled Groot on a toddler. Unlike baby Groot, she's going through a learning-language phase where she makes a lot of conversation sounds, all the right kinds of intonations like someone having a long discussion on the phone, without saying actual words most of the time.
She has a small toy shopping cart with assorted (empty) toy food boxes in it, as well as a few plastic fruits. Also a wind-up fish toy that twirls its flippers.
She's come to me with the shopping cart 2 evenings in a row. I was trying to finish up work, but oh well. It's not nice to ignore a two-year-old. The first time she took each item out of the cart and put it on the table. Then put them back into the cart. Then out on the table again. Etc. Back then I was still trying to avoid touching her or her toys to prevent spreading germs. So I only talked with her, discussing the toy grocery items. Later she tried winding up the fish toy but was having trouble. I gave up and helped her wind it up. Eventually she took the items out of the cart again, this time putting them on the desk right next to me. I unflattened some of the boxes. We stacked a few of them. I counted them out loud. I juggled two fruits, which she then tried to emulate. Etc etc.
Only today with her not here, did it finally occur to me that maybe she expected me to play the cashier, to scan the items and put them back into the shopping cart. I slightly recall someone else saying "beep", simulating a check-out scanner... maybe they were playing that with her before.
She has a small toy shopping cart with assorted (empty) toy food boxes in it, as well as a few plastic fruits. Also a wind-up fish toy that twirls its flippers.
She's come to me with the shopping cart 2 evenings in a row. I was trying to finish up work, but oh well. It's not nice to ignore a two-year-old. The first time she took each item out of the cart and put it on the table. Then put them back into the cart. Then out on the table again. Etc. Back then I was still trying to avoid touching her or her toys to prevent spreading germs. So I only talked with her, discussing the toy grocery items. Later she tried winding up the fish toy but was having trouble. I gave up and helped her wind it up. Eventually she took the items out of the cart again, this time putting them on the desk right next to me. I unflattened some of the boxes. We stacked a few of them. I counted them out loud. I juggled two fruits, which she then tried to emulate. Etc etc.
Only today with her not here, did it finally occur to me that maybe she expected me to play the cashier, to scan the items and put them back into the shopping cart. I slightly recall someone else saying "beep", simulating a check-out scanner... maybe they were playing that with her before.