The Beans: Buh-Gah!

So last week I started Brooklynn's Christmas List. I asked her what she wanted and actually wrote down her gibberish that she was saying. When I looked at several of the responses, I noticed that most of them were "ba ga" she kept saying it over and over. At first glance I thought, "Oh, isn't that sweet, she wants her sister GABBY to come for Christmas." But then when I heard her say "Gabby" it was clearly different so I knew it must be something else.

Here's the problem....she clearly wants a "bugga" but I had NO IDEA what that was. All of the options I thought it sounded like she has different words for. "Bugs" she calls all of them "bees". "Books" she hands us a book and says "ree, rea!" I tried looking through an entire catalogs and seeing if she could show me a picture of a "bugga" and nope. We also thought MAYBE it could be a "buggy" like a stroller, but I don't think she would learn that term b/c we have never called it a buggy. And I've pointed at one and she just says "baby." I was completely stumped. She was quite insistant. EVERY time I would ask her (except when I tried to get these videos of course) she would answer "buh-gah!" Sometimes very excitedly, "bugga, buga buga buga!!!"

I even took her to Toys R Us, and although we got tons of fun ideas for Christmas, she never found a "bugga" to show me.

Maybe it's a baseball, she knows how to say "ball" pretty well, though, so I didn't really think it was that.

Then today I babysat for Kassidy. She is two years old. I thought maybe, just maybe she could translate for me. So I asked her if she knew what a "buh-gah" was and she just looked at me like, "DUH." I asked her if she had one that she could show me and she tried to show be but I still wasn't getting it. And to make matters even more confusing, she ALSO just kept on saying, "it's a bugga!" So I have two little girls telling me this. So I looked at Kassidy and asked her if she could think of a different thing to call it. She finally said, "bucket" and a lightbulb went off in my head like, "THAT MIGHT BE IT!!!" We have two buckets, one we keep dirty rags in or use to mop the floor, and one I use for her diapers to bring to her diaper bag so they're both pretty nasty. Brooklynn loves to play with these buckets and I had to tell her she couldn't play with them any more because they were dirty. I've never heard her call them a bugga, but I thought it was just a random word that sounded like that so I thought maybe. I still wasn't sure and we happened to stop at Michaels craft store on the way home. They had some purple buckets there on the Halloween 80% off shelf and so I asked her if that was a bugga and she shook her head yes, and responded with "bugga bugga bugga!!!" So I put one in our cart. It ended up only costing me 20 cents. Sweet!

But...oh no...watch this video. Is it really a bucket after all? I'm just going to say that it is, call it a day and unless she learns how to say it more clearly tell her that is what she wanted. (We're going to get her a few other things, too.) Now I just have to manage to hide the bucket so it's a surprise for Christmas. It's hard to keep things a surprise when they go shopping with you.