What A Girl Wants

DAILY SNACK

Irene woke up this morning and started talking.

Okay, not really.

She’s been saying the odd word since before she was a year old.

By 15 months she knew quite a few words,

And her vocabulary has continued to grow.

But now, at 18 months, she speaks in sentences.

True, she only has the one verb:

To want.

But she can say so much with it.

Like instead of crying inexplicably when I say goodnight to her stuffed duck and tuck him into bed beside her,

She says, “I don wan guck on aaahm.”

Oh! You don’t want the duck on your arm.

That’s what’s been pissing you off all week.

So good to know.

And what else does she want?

You had to know that was coming.