Woah-ing

Woah-ing is the invention of my silly and smart daughter. I didn't know about woah-ing until she told me that she wanted to "do woah-ing" one evening. Actually, it sounding like "do woahwing." I had no idea what that was until she grabbed my hands and sort of hung from them. Then I realized. Sometimes, when she's off balance, we'll say "Woah!" and she'll grab our hands. So she made this into a verb. Very creative, I say. But now the woah-ing requests are coming in every evening. I toss her around a little, slide her on the floor. And then I'm tired. But Animalia isn't, so she asks to do it "o-gain?" and I comply. A few more times with the woah-ing, then it's time to distract her with a book.

Animalia loves verbs. She constantly creates new ones and gives new meaning to those already in the common vocabulary. She's constantly making or doing or dancing or shaking or wiggling or, another new one, sandling. Sandling is the act of putting on sandals. Also known, in Animalia-speak, as aching, the act of putting on huaraches.