Boo-Tih

Today, Ashley had a great development. We were sitting around the breakfast table (slash dinner table, but we were having breakfast), and Ashley pointed at the ground and said something like "Mommy, Daddy, look at my kitty cat". We looked around for a while until we were both sure, there was nothing there (like a stuffed animal) that she was pointing at. We asked her what color it was, and were told it was pink with brown spots. She then 'picked' it up, and carried it around. When told to wash her hands, she went in saying "c'mon kitty" and took her kitty with her to wash up her hands.

From there on to her room to show the kitty her fish, and then to the play area in the living room. She would walk around with her little arms wrapped around her chest petting one of her arms and talking to her kitty cat.

We asked her the kitty’s name, she said “boo-tih”. We made a couple of guesses as to what she said, but got it wrong, and she kept correcting us. Finally we said ‘boo-tih’ (pronounced like "Boo!" and the 'i' sound like in the word 'it') and that’s apparently correct. Too damned cute.

This is first time I can think of that she's ever had an imaginary animal. All previous animals/babies/people were based on stuffed animals and toys that she had. This is purely air.

Especially like the name, never heard anything like it. Best I can figure, is it's a made up Chinese name, since pronunciation sounds more Chinese than English.

Further amusing about the name - mentioned it to a couple of people, who each had they're own take on what it was based on. Grandmother thought it was based on "Beauty", male friend thought it was based on "Booty". HAHAHAHA