Your words or mine?

While it's wonderful, albeit somewhat alarming, when your children mimic your words (we all remember the first time they used our favourite swear words, don't we?) it's also brilliant when they use words that aren't our own.


Picture the scene: we're at Kew Gardens, it's chilly but the sun is shining.  We settle down on a bench outside the palm house to eat our sandwiches. The lavender walk way and the rose gardens are in front of us. 


Frog and Rowdy are whirling like dervishes around the flower beds begging for indigestion. Rowdy stops suddenly, takes a huge sniff of one of the roses and shouts "these roses smell deluxe."  Deluxe - not one of my words that's for sure, but definitely one a 3 year old boy should be using.  


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