Are two-year-olds actually drunk? Or what?

[NotQuiteCockney]

A conversation I had with DS2, on the bike today:

Me: Look at the moon up there.
DS2: Not moon, biscuit up there.
Me: Um. It's the moon.
DS2: Biscuit!

Me: Ok, what flavour biscuit is it?
DS2: Chocolate!
Me: Oh, that sounds tasty.
DS2: Not biscuit, moon!
Me: No, I think it's a chocolate biscuit.
DS2: MOON!

Hmm, I do think better talking means fewer (or gentler) tantrums. DS1 was talking better at this age than DS2 is, and certainly wasn't tantrumming much at all now. DS2's talking is still quite ropey, and he tantrums quite thoroughly.

Yes NQC I think a talking tantrum does end a bit quicker (although sometimes they are so funny that even if you employ all the will power in the world, a little snigger pops out (of me), and then that's IT mega purple rage ensues).

My fav tantrum today was 'I want my purple shoes on (x150).
She has, and has never had purple shoes

rabbits bottoms

yay I did one! I did one!

Check out that koalas caecum...mega!!

fantastic thread, had me in stitches. My two year old does all this too, and I laugh and laugh and laugh...I like the way he does a checklist for me when we go out in the car:

DS1 - Got your bag mummy?
Me - yes sweetie
DS1 - Got Toby Mummy? (his baby bro)
Me - yes darling got Toby
DS1 - Got your keys mummy?
Me - yep, keys right here.
DS1 - WELL DONE MUMMY, THAT'S BRIWWIANT! We not go shopping mummy, i want to go home and watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

(haven't left driveway yet)

ROFL at this thread. I can't wait for these random conversations when DS2 gets to talking more (he's only 17 months)
I have been trying to teach him animal noises from a book, and he just looks at me like I am stupid.
Me: look, Cow. Cow says mooooo. You say it, Mooo.
DS2: {looks at me like I am stupid}

Then 5 mins later, reads book to himself, and is all moos and quacks and baas.
WHY WONT HE SAY IT TO ME??????

Loving this thread - jsut trying to pinpoint one of dd's hilarities.

Never mind 2 yr olds, I think my 10yr old is stoned, we had a very indepth conversation over dinner about how the universe could be just a part of a huge alien world and how our universe could be just a speck, he discussed how we could actually be just part of any actual beings bodies as we are just made of matter, and how perhaps the world was just a giant aliens science project gone wrong and left in the garage to evolve in a cardboard box unseen.

My five-year-old says there are aliens under all the white spots on the pavement. (Gum.)

I'm not sure why.

Our neighbour takes him to school on the bus every morning, and he explains all this to her. There are some people they see on the same bus every day, and they like to sit close to listen to the theories, apparently. One of them even gives up the front seat for DS1 and our neighbour. All too weird.