So I don’t forget

Duncan has been talking more recently and his speech has become much clearer. I wanted to record some of his little phrases, all of which he’s copied from videos etc. The latest one is ‘Pippin! Come on Pippin, it’s time to fly!’, taken from the BBC program, Come Outside. He got Lady’s Ju Jitsu red belt the other day, wrapped it round himself and handed me the end while saying this. He wanted me to play ‘Auntie Mabel’ while he played Pippin the dog who has a red lead.

He has a whole selection of phrases to express anger or that he’s not happy with a situation;

‘Help, HELP ME’, which can be disconcerting when you’re in the shops,
‘Mercy, MERCY!’- from Disney’s Robin Hood (when the chicken pretends to die),
‘FIONA, FIONA!’ or ‘I’m an ogre, GRRRR!’ – from Shrek 2,
‘Gordon was grumpy, the passengers were grumpy’ – from, well, guess what?

On Sunday at a friends house he wanted to play outside and he called me out with him while saying in a very chirpy manner ‘Come on, lets go’ – which I later recognised from the excellent American learn to read site, Starfall.

He is skilled at letting people know what he wants and his most used phrase is ‘I want …’. Only a few weeks ago he has started to say ‘I want MY Mummy’.
When he’s asking me for something and I’m not acting on the command promptly enough he says ‘wake up Mummy’.

Anyway, I must go as the little prince is asking me to draw Zeebad (from the Magic Roundabout film, oh god, don’t ask!).