Soakin' Cold
As Lana becomes fluent in English, some of her phrases cause me endless amusement. She has recently begun to use the word "soaking" in the most interesting way. (I mean, I find it linguistically interesting, because I am a geek that way, but, also, I find it adorable.)
She learned the term "soaking wet" over the summer when we were swimming in the pool every day.
When it started to get cold, she looked at me and said, "Mommy, I'm soakin' cold." The first time she said it, I asked her to repeat it, as I wasn't sure I'd heard her correctly. "Soakin' cold, mom." She said. "Not soakin' wet right now, but, soakin' cold."
At Halloween she happily announced to Gabriel, "We're SOAKIN' in candy, Gabe! Soakin' in candy!"
She has also, on other occasions, been "soaking hungry" and "soaking tired" and "soaking in birthday presents."
It's astonishingly cute, is what it is.
I don't have the heart to tell her these aren't common colloquialisms - besides, maybe it'll catch on. Maybe soon, all across the Midwest, we'll be soaking cold. While we're soaking in Christmas presents. While we cure our soaking hunger with some Christmas treats.
LM
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posted by LawMommy at 8:53 PM
8 Comments:
Aww, that is astonishingly cute! And really, I think it could very well catch on. It's soakin' cold up here in Minnesota today - and really, that covers it better than anything I could come up with!
Way too cute -
Oh my gosh, it is both genius and adorable :-)
I think it WILL catch on! I'll lead the west-coast charge...let me know when it makes its way east across the country.
Soakingly amused,
Melissa
..."both genius and adorable", as nicki said, sums it up, but i *still* felt compelled to comment just to say the same thing---darling!
Teri
(from Iowa, soakingly ice-coated)
that is so soaking cool how she is quickly soaking up the English language.
Soak on!
We can soak up the sun, right? So why not soak up the candy and the presents? Makes sense to me! Too cute.
Elaine
This will be my new favorite saying - I need to replace "freakin'" , which is what I would have said, were I that cold. But some people say that's too close to the "F-word, F-bomb" - you know what I mean. ANd I don't say that one.
So, Soakin' sounds rockin'! She coined a cool phrase! Soakin' wet.....
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