Smile at the Puppet

[lathany]

It was photo time at playgroup this morning. How do you get Ryan to sit still and smile? With difficulty.

Sitting still wasn't the nightmare that I was expecting. However, he wouldn't smile, or smile at the same time as Bea, or not have his hands in front of his face... but it was still quicker than the people two in front.

And all that still wasn't as tricky as getting him to leave afterwards. He wandered around the set with huge eyes going "Lights. Light On. Lights Off."

In other news, I want my horrible cold to go away.

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[triskellian]

Eek! Ryan appears to have turned into Homer Simpson! "Lights go on, lights go off!"

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

It's all my fault. About 6 months ago, Ryan's next speech milestone was supposed to be "joined up words", which means using more than one word at a time to express himself.

He was having none of it. His favourite word is "light", so I got into the habit of saying "light on" whenever I switched a light on and "light off" when switching off. If he wanted a light switched, he had to say which of the two he wanted. Predictably, he wasn't having any of it, preferring to point and say "Light", "Light !", "LIGHT !", "LIIIIIIIIGHT !" until I did what he wanted (which was never).

Then suddenly he got it.

Unfortunately since then we've been unable to stop him from saying it.

And do you know what the worst thing is. Every single light you ever come across is either 'on' or 'off'. Every single one. Walk Ryan along the road and the streetlights provoke "Light off, light off, light off...". And being in Tescos is even worse.