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This Is Not My Proudest Parenting Moment

May 14th, 2008 · 22 Comments

One-year-old Baby PoppySeed said her first word this week.  She had already mastered Mama, Dada and her older sister’s name, but this was her first real, useful non-name word.

She said “Donut.”

Um.

Now you know my dirty secret.

Tags: the usual blather

22 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Tracey // May 14, 2008 at 3:21 pm

    My baby mastered “muffin” pretty quickly… funny how they tell on us!

  • 2 suburbancorrespondent // May 14, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    It’s always “cookie” around here.

  • 3 chilihead // May 14, 2008 at 4:26 pm

    I love that! I hate to admit that my son knew how to use Dammit! correctly by age 2. I have since cleaned up my act. ;)

  • 4 Kelly @ Love Well // May 14, 2008 at 4:44 pm

    Better than “Mama achoo. NOOO!”

  • 5 Minnesotamom // May 14, 2008 at 4:50 pm

    Man, you and Antique Mommy should go out and celebrate this. :)

  • 6 Sue // May 14, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    heehee

  • 7 jean // May 14, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    It has been a big week for doughnuts on the internet. Of course now I have to go get one or two or a dozen. Thanks.

  • 8 Beck // May 14, 2008 at 9:15 pm

    That’s a handy word.

  • 9 Jamie @ ohbecareful // May 14, 2008 at 10:18 pm

    No condemnation here. One of my son’s first words was ‘cookie’. And my daughter, whose vocabulary is still limited, can sign ‘cookie’.

  • 10 poppy fields // May 15, 2008 at 4:32 am

    Emma’s was “chocolate” and Nina’s first words were “me too”…I think in response to her sister’s word :)

  • 11 Jeana // May 15, 2008 at 7:10 am

    I think she and Antique Mommy must be soul mates.

  • 12 Tonggu Momma // May 15, 2008 at 8:06 am

    So… what’s the issue? :) Now — if her first word was broccoli — then, THEN, I don’t think I could continue reading your blog.

  • 13 Melanie // May 15, 2008 at 10:02 am

    That child has her priorities straight.

  • 14 Happy Geek // May 15, 2008 at 10:33 am

    I agree with chilihead, it’s better than my son’s first word.
    That one is a little tougher explaining at church.

  • 15 Misslisslee // May 15, 2008 at 11:40 am

    Hey, we ladies need to know how to ask for what’s important to us. And to keep asking, until someone forks it over!! ;-)

  • 16 Pieces // May 15, 2008 at 12:42 pm

    Excellent. Is there one left for me?

  • 17 Joy // May 15, 2008 at 8:33 pm

    Hee Hee! That is funny- it could have been worse!!

  • 18 Heidi // May 15, 2008 at 9:02 pm

    Ha, ha! My little one yells, “IVY!” (my daughter’s name) in the exact tone that I do when I’m mad. He’s only 14 months old.

    Donut is not so bad.

  • 19 Antique Mommy // May 15, 2008 at 11:53 pm

    I love her. She’s my kinda gal.

  • 20 brother // May 16, 2008 at 5:38 am

    Do Nuts? - Nuts are healthy and I know you’ve flirted with the vegetarian thing
    Don’t us? - You and Az are well educated; maybe her first words are a complete sentence.
    Donuts? - babyspeak for “I love mommy”

    We like to joke that a good latte machine could bring peace to Afghanistan. Donuts could help too. Who wants to do anything but lie around in a sugar coma after filling your belly with Krispy Cremes or Dunkin Donuts?

  • 21 Karen // May 16, 2008 at 6:57 am

    My next-door-neighbor’s little boy spent his first year at my house five days a week. Seriously, he spent more time with my family than with his own. So his first word was not mama or dada. It was “Yaya” (Elijah - my son). His mother was not very happy.

  • 22 magpie // May 16, 2008 at 8:45 pm

    Nicely done.

    My kid’s first word was “pampa” (pampers) because that’s what her babysitter called her diapers. And I never bought Pampers, always Huggies.

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