Today Daddy remarked to me, “She’s talking really well,” after another full sentence from our girl. I couldn’t help but sigh “If only she did it in German.” Whereupon Daddy turned to her and said, “Tu parles en allemand à maman ?” (You speak German with Mommy?) Her answer: “Non.” Daddy: “Pourquoi pas ?” (Why […]

We’re entering the stage of the strange/funny statements. Here’s what our little girl said today (the photo is from January though): It left us ??? If you have an explanation, I’d love to hear it.

I thought that maybe it was time to give a little overview (from memory) of some notable grammar aspects of my little girl’s speech at this point. So here we go: She uses “moi” instead of “je”: “Moi veux” (I want) or “Moi vois pas” (I don’t see). She mostly uses the infinitive form of […]

Our little girl recognises her first letters on her way to learning to write her name. These are the ones she picks out : P for papa, M for mama, and her own initial. For some reason, the P has taken centre stage. When she looks at some writing and finds any of those three […]

A week ago, we were having supper together. The “main course” (followed by cheese and dessert) was over, and Daddy was taking the plates into the kitchen. We were ready to get on with the cheese, but there was something missing on the table. “Papa, Messer couper fromage!”

I love these situations: I’m picking up my daughter at her child-minder’s. The other little girl in her care, J., a few months younger, has brought her tricycle, which is parked near the door. (Incidentally, it’s identical to hers. When she opened the door for me and saw me wearing my bike helmet, then the […]

In the series, “I know what’s on my head” (see my previous post), my little girl wore her wonderful hand-knitted hat from her grandaunt the other day when we met with our German-French friends: When the other girl’s dad exclaimed “Du hast ja eine Tomate auf dem Kopf!” (You’re wearing a tomato on your head!), […]

Our little girl is a water lover. As such, it is very hard to get her away from any kind of water game, such as this: So for getting her out of her bath, we have to use our imagination to avoid having the evening end in tears. Last night, it was almost too easy, […]

This is not from my girl, but from a friend of hers, not quite a year older, who told her today: “Les pigeons, c’est une espèce qui vole.”

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 […]