foo-goo-dones

Over the past few months, Paela has taken to creatively coming up with nonsense words. It isn't in the form of a regressive behavior, but in fact a type of game she plays where she tries to come up with new words that make her and us laugh. I'm not sure I remember how it started, but I do remember the most prominent form of it was when she decided that the word "poppy" (no relation to the flower) meant you had to respond with a "hmm?" And so it happened that her stuffed animals would come up with nonsense words and she and I would have competitions to see who could come up with the funniest nonsense word. Tonight, she began to list off the members of our family, "Paela, Momma, Daddy ... and ... Pooh-goo-downs!" I asked her to repeat that name and she just couldn't say it she was laughing so hard. Everytime she got calm enough to say it, she erupted in laughter before saying some iteration of the nonsense name.