Actually, I didn't realize

While we were visiting my sister's family for the holidays, we were eating breakfast in the hotel one morning. Sven said to Ojiisan "I want more milk in my cereal." Ojiisan told him he still had milk in his cereal, so Sven looked and said "I didn't realize there was still milk in my cereal." We were all amused by his correct use of the word "realize". This morning he used "realize" again when he tried to tell Erik I didn't realize you were asleep, when he turned on our bedroom light and found Daddy still snoozing. But the sentence got a little mangled along the way.

This incident reminds me of when Sven started using the word "actually." The funniest time was last summer when we stopped in Portland on the way back from Ashland. We were eating dinner in Le Bistro Montage and the waitress tried to take Sven's plate of Rice and Beans away before he was finished. Sven told the waitress "actually, I'm not done yet." She quickly put the plate back down, looked embaressed, and apologized. My sister Michi said her kids also used the word "actually" when they were quite young. Its hilarious to hear the young children voices echo back the adult words they hear.