Ike-anese, Volume I

A not-at-all-exhaustive, not alphabetical list of some of Isaac's words and their English translations.

• Ca-Ca -  Coffee. True fact: Isaac really likes coffee. He saw some young parents drinking coffee while swinging in the playground and kept pointing and saying "CA-CA!" over and over. He thinks this stuff is great. That's daddy's bad.
• Tee - Tree.
• Fawa - Flower. In certain cases, leaves on trees can be flowers.
• Nagk - Snack.
• Nana - Banana
• Ah-pee - Airplane. Since we live in Park Slope, which is in the flight paths of New York airports, Isaac will use this word once every two minutes on clear days.
• Gah - Car.
• Buh! - Bus. This must, absolutely MUST, be said with enthusiasm. That's a BUS, DAMMIT!
• Da - Dog. Prospect Park has offleash hours in the mornings, so once or twice a week Isaac ends up running maniacally around with the hundreds of dogs in the park, screaming this word, followed by the un-un-un-un-un sound he makes while running.
• Ya - Yes
• Ah guh(n). - All gone. This means that whatever we were eating at the moment is no longer available.
• Tay - Train. Isaac has absolutely fallen in love with Thomas the Train. Any Thomas selection at any toy store in the city is always met with a "Whooooooaa!" He has a quickly growing collection of little wooden Thomas engines that he loves to carry everywhere he goes.
• Ah - Cee - Ice Cream. Although, he was saying this while eating hummus. So I think he might think hummus is a flavor of ice cream. And he may be onto something.
• Uh Nuh - Oh no! I have dropped my tay or my buh into daddy's ca-ca, spilling it all over the da! And now daddy's sad his coffee is ah gun!