A couple of weeks ago, we were staying with friends in Germany whose son is the same age as our daughter. I’d hoped this would get her to activate her passive German vocabulary, and it did. Here’s one very cute example:

The other day, I showed my little girl some photos of a newborn calf a friend had sent me: Her reaction: “Oh, c’est mignon !” Her reaction: “Pirate !”

Over the long weekend, we went to see friends in Germany whose son is the same age as our little girl. The two hit it off right away, but for the first day and a half our girl used the method of “if he doesn’t understand me, I must repeat and speak more loudly”. “Viens, […]

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.

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, […]

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: […]