Faith and Dawn are laying on the couch having the early morning tickle. The kids say, "Gladdle!" and then Dawn tickles, tickles, tickles until they say, "Gladdle!" again. So Faith was pushing Dawn's shirt up. Dawn said, "What are you doing?" Faith said, "I'm trying to give you a vertebrate." As they struggled for the shirttail (Remember that cartoon when we were kids? The Shirt-tails. That was weird.) and both laughed hysterically, Dawn managed to choke out, "A what?" "A Vertebrate!" Faith screamed.
A Zorbit. She's talking about a zorbit. (For those non-Huxstable watchers out there, that's the little spitting raspberry thing that you do on baby bellies.) She's 5 and correctly pronounces vertebrate. And knows what it is. I adore her.
Five-year olds are the world's best comedians. I swear they are.
ReplyDeleteWe have a whole other lingo here in Canada, considering, our TVs are nothing like yours. We do get ABC,NBC, and CBS for the prime time shows ... but everything else is different.
ReplyDeleteCome on, Dawg. Don't make this more difficult than necessary. The Huxstables are the family on the Cosby Show. Remember?
ReplyDeleteWhat do you guys call a Zorbit?
I thought it was a zerbit? Faith sounds adorable.
ReplyDeleteI think we called it a zorbit before the Cosbys ever came on. I threatened someone with one just the other day.
ReplyDeleteHow cute. I just love when they say cute things and don't even know it.
ReplyDeleteWe called them zerberts. I still hate them but my daughter loves them!
ReplyDeleteI can see Dawn's face now, that big ear to ear smile, laughing at such a comment... it made me laugh too, and it wasn't even my vertebrate!
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