Don’t worry, we didn’t try to find out if our girl is really a girl – we just helped a researcher at the BabyLab of the “Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique” (their website has changed, by the way) in her study of whether 31-months-old toddlers already distinguish between “le” and “la” in the French […]

Today our girl went out with Daddy. When they came home and left the car in our parking garage, she pointed to the fire extinguisher: “Papa, que c’est que ça ?” (“Daddy, what’s that?”) “C’est un extincteur. Pour éteindre s’il y a le feu.” (“That’s a fire extinguisher. When there’s a fire, to put it […]

This morning when we left home to go to the nanny’s, my little girl was extremely talkative. And by extremely, I mean she was talking non-stop. I think it was some kind of story, or maybe the same story over and over again, as I recognised the same “words” several times. Listen to her here: […]

I just noticed something interesting today. My little girl recently converted to muesli. I bought some fancy ones for kids at mymuesli (which I highly recommend), “Prinzessinnenmüsli” with strawberries and raspberries, and “Piratenmüsli” with tiny white and milk chocolate pieces. My little girl tried them both, and admired the beautifully decorated muesli tins they came […]

Just a fun moment from this morning: Like every morning, my girl and I ride the bus one stop on our way to the nanny’s. Like every morning, I tell her “Wir steigen gleich aus” (“we’ll get off the bus in a moment”) as the bus approaches the bus stop. Like every morning, she gets […]