Living with Robin: Can you Speak Robinese?

Robin is one little excited, energetic barrel of fun lately! On the days that I come home and she's already there, I can hear her "dada?" call from the other room. It quickly get more frantic with "Dada?!?" and next "DADA?!?" finally "DADAAAA!". She then bursts into the room, where I have my arms open wide happily saying "Hi Robin!". She promptly looks at me, screams "NOOOOOOO!!" and then and runs away.

Of course, I chase her to where she runs to and pick her up for a hug. She gives me a brief - very brief - hug. Then I get the command "Down!" as she wants to put me down, as there is more playing to do.

She is learning words faster than I can count. I mean, maybe I'm a slow counter, but still it's pretty quick. She says "more" when she wants more food. She says her daycare friends "Ella" and "Abby" with ease. She's got the barnyard covered from "moo" to "meow" to "bow-wow". She can say "outside" with the greatest of clarity. But no matter how many times we say it, bellow it, call it, whine it, or exasperatedly sigh it, she still has no word for our high energy and still crazy dog Griffin.

She has her own vocabulary of unique words too. Some seem obvious, but some can trick you, and a few you likely just won't know. See if you can figure out what the following mean. Try to sound it out. Hint: she often only uses part of a word, and sometimes only one syllable.

1. Chee
2. Chacha
3. Bed
4. Gen (with a hard G as in good)
5. Cheat
6. Poon
7. Papa
8. Peena
9. Orn
10. Mehmaw

Here's the answers. Did you cheat? Well, in this case, "cheats" are good.

1. Cheese
2. Ba'cha (My Mom's nickname. Bapcha is Polish for Grandma)
3. Bread (although it's a trick question, because it sometimes does mean her crib)
4. Again (often as in "Spin me around fast enough to barf again Dada!")
5. Treat (for Griffin)
6. Spoon
7. Grandpa (not myself as you might expect)
8. Pizza
9. Orange
10. Grandma

What's your prize you ask? Stop being so greedy, this is a child's blog.