-Zoe's pronunciation of "spoon" = "tchoum"
-Tomato or potato in Zoese: "Table"
-Lately, she likes to call us over to the window shortly after sunset, and say, "Look, Mommy/Daddy, the Lights of Kigali!"
-Now she refers to herself not only as Little Cat, but also Baby Dolphin. She frequently will ask us to (pretend to) feed her fish, "dolphin food," and speaks in a squeaky chuckle.
-One sign that she's an expat in Africa: when she hears a truck engine from our back window, she will comment that "the generator turnin' on." Related: last weekend, after a few days of several-hour power outages, when we turned on the light in our bedroom, she looked up at it and said "We have power now for lights. No generator."
-Frequently she will demand that we, "Talk about it, Zoe's placemat," meaning she wants us to tell her more about the plastic world map placemat she uses. This phrase has come up quite a bit after the few movies she has seen, "Talk about funny people in movie again." Also in a few favorite books, on pages that have detailed and busy illustrations, simply pointing at the page, "Talk about it."
Good to see you're doing well. A belated Happy Birthday! I'm healing with tendonitis treatment. And I'm sticking to the training for a sprint triathlon. I haven't fallen in love with training, but it's good to get moving and be exercising. Dad has a trainer at the gym whom he sees a couple of times a week. I'm still (one of) the resident chauffeurs so I go for the workouts, too. I've always been a big reader when an ex-pat also. Hope you find a book club/exchange soon. Take care, LAM
ReplyDeleteYes -the language skills of both Zoe and Edwin seem to be explosively growing. Edwin now like to clink cups /drinking glasses with us all and go 'Cheers'. At twilight he very much likes to say ' All the lights are coming on, Daddy /Mummy'. He has also learned to say his ' big name' -Edwin SALI-SBUR-EE
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