Really, I shouldn't be surprised about the next word that Little Man mastered after the all-purpose uh-oh. It's a perfectly natural evolution: what goes better with "uh-oh" than "stuck?"
Little Man is getting a lot of mileage out of this word, which popped into usage last week. He gets stuck: in between the train table and the entertainment center, under the table retrieving his car, in his high chair when he's done eating and Mommy isn't moving fast enough. His books and movies are full of things that get stuck: Pooh in Rabbit's front door, Piglet against Owl's window, Tigger in a tree, Goofy in a bush. Stuck, stuck, stuck. And anything that is out of Little Man's reach is stuck as well.
"Uh-oh," he greeted me this morning in his crib when I walked into his bedroom. He gestured wildly to his beloved Pooh book, which was still in the rocking chair where we had read it the night before. "Uh-oh uh-oh uh-oh! Pooh sssssTUCK"
Turns out, "stuck" is an excellent and useful addition to a one-year-old's vocabularly, and never fails to get the point across.
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