Monday, November 21, 2005

"Waiter, water please."

Up until he turned 2 years old, my son always called anything that is liquid that you can drink a "bah-bah". It didn't matter if it was in his sippy cup, our glass, a pop can, everything was "bah-bah". It didn't even matter what the liquid was, it could be water, milk, orange juice, pop, kool-aid. Anything that you could drink. I tried and tried to correct him, he would ask for his sippy cup and say "bah-bah", I would correct him and say "No, Sippy-Cup." He would look at me with the most serious face and say "No, bah-BAH!"

I remember one occasion when we had gone out dinner. It was sometime during the four months between my daughter's birth and "W"'s 2nd birthday. I had gone to pick up "S" from work, and he decided we should go eat dinner at one of our favorite New Mexican Restaurants "Bea's". We sat down and the female server asked us what we wanted to drink, it was water's all around. "W" got his water in a styrofoam cup with a lid and a straw. He was very excited. The server came back and we ordered our meals. While we were waiting we were talking about "S"'s day at work, and "W" is just downing his water as quickly as he could. We looked at each other and said "Wow he's thirsty!"

He had drunk enough so that the straw couldn't reach anymore. The server had already come back to refill our glasses. "W" was trying to get some more water out of his cup, but wouldn't let us adjust his straw. He held up his cup, and looked around the restaurant. He saw a male server, made eye contact with him, and say "Bah-Bah". We burst out laughing. We had expected that when he wanted more water he would have asked us, his mom or dad. The idea that he knew to ask the server for more water totally caught us by surprise. The waiter had walked away, so we thought "Oh, he didn't understand, we'll just wait for our waitress to come back". When just then the server that "W" had "asked for water" showed up at our table with a pitcher of cool, fresh water and filled his cup. We apologized profusely to the waiter for the rudeness of our son.

A few minutes later our server brought out our food and we ate our delicious spicy food. But thoughout the meal, we couldn't help laughing any time we thought about him asking the server "Waiter, I would like some water please"!

(p.s. "W" chose this color.)
Posted by ABQ Mom :: 11/21/2005 07:36:00 AM :: 3 Comments:

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