Communicating Is Also Obscuring

Following on Shannon's post about some of Julia's charming utterances, and looking forward to Vivi starting her own very soon (she can't just say "Dada" forever, can she?), I will finally link to this Defective Yeti post about his son's willingness to name anything at all:


{I hold up a Hotwheels.}
Me: What's this?
Squiggle: It's a car.
M: That's right.
{I hold up an huge binder clip.}
M: And what's this?
S: It's a flongle.
M: It's a-- what?
S: A flongle. 


Killer stuff. Julia's not nearly so inventive in this respect. For months (a year?) now, she has replied to most questions to which she does not know the answer by quietly saying, "Yes." It's rather confounding, frankly. At least nowadays she's starting to say, "I don't know!" when she really doesn't know.

Forecast: Significant blowing and drifting, with the possibility of heavy accumulation in rural areas.