Mislitterations

LG, your mother thinks you are speaking Klingon. Id have to agree, though there’s also definitely some Sand People talk in there as well. You babble and sing just about all day long… Our Taiwanese Nanny (TN from here on out) tells me thatsome of your babbling is indeed Mandarin, but I’ve no idea. I can say “Say Tchien” (good bye), “lie” & “qua lie” (both are forms of “come here”), and count to five. I think. Oh, and I can say “thank you”, but you’ve never really said any of those, at least not that I can tell.

What you do say, and seem to say it quite often, is “n’barda”, which is a Pulaar (Mauritanian dialect) word for “how are you” (or something like that; it’s a greeting of some sort). Not sure where you picked it up, but I like that you know it.

I actually am hearing more and more sounds that sound like words… “nana” is your favorite fruit, “dod-dod” your favorite animal and “mamamama” is, well your favorite parent, most likely. You also have “hi” down pretty well, along with a smile, head cock and wave… it’s super cute, and you elongate it, so it sounds more like “hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii”. Perfect. LG, you and spent a large part of the day babbling at each other, and it was a lot of fun.

We also played a lot – from letting you roll down the couch cushion to chase o swinging you around, I think we had a good day together. I took you out back and let you swing for a while while I cleaned up a bit of the back yard. We also walked home from LD’s school after dropping him off. Somehow, a block and a half took forty minutes, but it was fine: your legs are short and your attention fleeting. “Ooh, stairs! Ooh, a shiny thing! Ooh A slug! Does it taste good” hey, let’s go back up the way we came, it looks like it changed, it must be new again! Hey, a dog!”

Those were forty well spent minutes. I did, however forget that I was supposed to volunteer in LD’s class today… whoops.

Hrm, why am I not writing this in 3rd person? Ah well, no laws against changing styles once in a while – “Ooh, a new style! Does it taste good?”


LD, man, you were the BEST today. Seriously, I could not have asked for a happier, more helpful kid – you got up happy, helped fed the dogs (of course, these days, you’re in charge of feeding the dogs & you’ve been doing it for a year without complaints), took a bath, ate breakfast and played with your sister, and that was just in the morning.

We walked up to school, where you were starting early. Today was one of the two “before School Sports” days you have with Mr. PE, and India and I stuck around to watch ya. 50 kids all running around in controlled chaos, and you there in the thick of it. While we were watching, you were playing catch with the twins from your kindergarten class, using a soft frisbee thingy. You were laughing and seemed to be having fun.

After school, you made sure that I would play chase with you after dinner, then you ran off to the playground for a bit. On the way home we talked a little about your day, as we always do, and you told me that you saw the Blue Angels today when you were outside. I’m not sure what you say, but I don’t think they were in the area today. I could be wrong, though. I think that L. would be happy to know that you remember who they are. Your mama loves planes, especially planes that go high and fast and with precision. She’d love to go out into space, too (as would I, but she really would). Hell, if I won the lottery, one thing I’d buy would be a ticket into space for her. I think she’d love it.

After we got home, I let you have half a Twix (shhh, don’t tell; it was your first time having one, and you got it cause of how excellent you’ve been). We hung out for a little bit, the we went to the store, then went and got Mama from work. We had grilled cheese and tomato soup for dinner (yours had Tofutti soy cheese, tomatoes and garlic, Mama’s had Tofutti soy cheese, tomatoes, garlic & onions, LG’s had cheddar, tomatoes, garlic & onions, and mine had just cheddar… I like it simple).

We got to play chase after dinner, out side in the dark. The moon was full, and you let me know that it was easier to hide at night because it was dark. You just need to find dark shadows and no one can see you, but with the moon so bright and full finding shadows is hard to do and you’re in the moonlight and isn’t the moon almost as bright as the sun tonight, Papa? It was fun chasing you around.

Though I did learn that I have to work a little more to get ya; your zigs and zags are improving, not to mention your speed.