Arika has learned the word that all parents dread! MINE! Or another way she says it is "my cheese", "my water", etc, You get the idea. So after about a week of getting really frustrated, Arika getting put in timeout and getting in trouble... we didn't know what to do! They had even written it on her sheets from childcare.
So one day Jim was walking Arika home from Nursery, when they walked by the car and you guessed it, Arika says, "my car!" It was at that point we realized that she wasn't saying it from a MINE perspective, but that she was realizing what belonged to her!
So we were really glad to finally get that figured out!
Then we decided to try and get her to say "Arika's" instead of "My" for example "Arika's water". So, we worked on it one morning while we were getting ready. We asked her to get her boots on so we could go. And again she said "My Boots" and Jim corrected her and the next thing we we hear is MY ARIKA! Kids you gotta love em! We had a good laugh over that one! So needless to say we haven't heard it too much more!