"Tings"

Somewhere in the last few years Chicken number four has developed her own language, one that makes perfect sense to her but takes a highly trained ear to understand. Many times I have found myself in a situation where I have someone giving me a blank stare as chicken number four (here after to be referred to as CN4) is trying to tell them something. This situation has happened many times over where I am left listening to CN4 and translating for a person with, shall we say a not so trained ear. I as a mother of four chickens have been able to navigate through these situations with minimal problems but every once in a while I need to bring in re-enforcements. I find my most reliable re-enforcement to be chicken number two, (here after to be referred to as CN2) he being an author of his own language himself has a better understanding of CN4 than I do at times and so I find myself enlisting his talents often. Today was no exception...
CN4 came to me and asked "Mommy, whats dat ting on da table?"
"What 'ting' CN4?" (yes I do talk to them with their chicken numbers)
"Dat ting dat is on da table, next to dat odder ting."
"OH, 'dat ting'."
"yup."
I than realize I need to enlist the services of CN2 and call him...
"Chicken number 2"
"Yes Mommy?"
"What is CN4 asking me?"
CN4 than says to CN2 "Whats dat ting on da table?"
CN2 turns to me and says "She want to know if the balloon on the table next to your purse is for her to play with."
"You got all that from what she said?" I asked slightly impressed.
"Yup. Can I go now?"
SURE! Go in peace. I then turn to CN4 and tell her "Yes you may play 'wit dat ting'."
Its so very nice to have translators in your home, every family should have them.