#shespeaksinhashtag

 

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 Monkey,
our two year old,
is the, small, silent type.
She rarely speaks,
and when she does it is only because she wants to.
Never because she is prompted
or bribed,
or begged.
She has a lot of made up works,
for example she says
“Mmmmmmm”
when she wants a drink of water.
She also uses a lot of hand gestures and pointing to communicate.
Some people would be worried,
but I’m not.
I’ll give you an example why.

Yesterday, Sunday,
we were all sitting around the dinner table eating,
and Dadzoo along with the rest of the zoo think talking in “hash-tag” (#) is really funny.
Everything they would sayat dinner that night they would prefaced with “Hash-tag: canyoupleasepassthesalt.”
Annoying.
I soon noticed Monkey, who was stilling to my left whispering:
“‘ashtag”
I stopped and asked
“Are you saying ‘hash-tag’?”
She smiled and said
“‘ashtage”

Since then we have been able to get her to say anything just by asking her in “hash-tag”
“Monkey, say ‘hashtagiwantadrink'”
and that little Monekey says
“‘ashtageiwantadrink”

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She speaks
#shespeaksinhashtag.

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