Drinks Please

Scene: The Bath – N playing with some little cups.

N: Daddy, what would you like to drink?

Me: Hot Chocolate please.

N: No no no, my shop doesn’t do hot chocolate.  What would you like to drink?

Me: What do you have?

N: Coffee, milk and salad.

Me: Coffee please.

N: Would you like Hot chocolate with that?

Me: Yes please.

N: Here it is, don’t sneeze.

Me: Are you putting pepper in it?

N: Yes.

The First Word is the Hardest.

First words are tricky things, both for the child and the parent.  For the child it is the moment that they introduce themselves.  This is what people are going to be talking about in twenty years time.  “Yes, well, my Johnny’s first word was kumquat, so beat that,” your parents will say in just one more attempt to keep up with the Joneses, (as everyone knows, Martha Jones’ first word was triceratops as she stood in the Natural History museum pointing out the spelling mistake to the curator.  We just can’t hope to keep up.)  First words stay with us, you really want them to be something big, something important, something Descartes would have been proud to have said, and let’s be honest, isn’t there a moment in all of our lives when we wish we’d been the first to say cogito ergo sum? Just me?  Oh well.