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March 31, 2008

Mystery solved

Remember that "agaga" thing? (Of COURSE you do.) Well, it turns out that meant "all colors." Agaga is a thing of the past. I miss it a little. My girl is growing up so fast.

She and Jeff play this game that grew out of the Big White Truck bedtime story (it's an ice cream truck - we used to tell it to Ethan too): they pretend to get ice cream out of their fingers, a different flavor for each finger. She even shares. So sometimes she'll say, "I want some pink ibee!" Then she pulls on her thumb, and sticks it in her mouth to pretend to eat. "Mmm! Delilih!"

This past weekend was our first of all underwear, all the time. (Except for naps and bedtime, of course.) We even went out for bagels on Sunday, and also to Sophia's birthday party, in kitty underwear. One pair all day!

For all that she's such a big girl now, she still pronounces "s" as "d" most of the time. For example, at Sophia's she kept going off to play the little piano, and then she'd come back and announce, "I ding a dong!" to both me and Aileah (who she clearly views as her other mother). And when we wash hands after going potty, she says insistently, "More dope! More dope!"

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March 17, 2008

Kiss it and make it better

Linna definitely likes for me to kiss her boo-boos, as it were (we don't really call them "boo-boos," though). Often after a kiss she'll say, "Little more," or "No, right there!"

Today she was very grumpy, probably because of being sick. At lunch she made her way around the table to me to nurse (sometimes to be funny she calls it "nursie" like Adrian does, instead of "nana"). I picked her up, we nursed a bit, and then she started to cry and said, "Ow...." I asked if she had bitten her tongue, and she said yes.

And then - I'm sure you can see this coming - she said "Kiss it!" and stuck out her tongue. I kissed the air near her mouth, but she came back with "Little more!" and "Right there!" as she stuck it out again. Um... how to explain that people don't normally kiss each others' tongues, per se, and especially not when the tongue in question has been sick? Anyway, I finally resolved it, at Jeff's suggestion, by kissing my finger and touching it to the proper spot on her little tongue.

In other cute news, Linna and Ethan are into singing the "Bob the Builder" song together right now. They sing loudly - and pretty much in tune - "BOB the Builder, can we fix it, BOB the Builder, YES WE CAN!" And then, also in perfect unison, "Yayyy!"

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March 10, 2008

What happened a moon?

Some weeks ago (when was that?), the kids and Jeff saw the lunar eclipse. I was on a plane coming home from California, so they went out to dinner (Pizzicato - so nice to have a place we can easily walk to now) and watched the eclipse. Now, weeks later, Linna still loves to say, "What happened a moon? It's gone."

Last night she said it a few times and we all laughed, so she kept at it, substituting other things for the moon: "What happened a mama? It's gone. What happened a brother? It's gone." And so on, with giggles.

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March 01, 2008

Talk to the hand

The other night at bedtime Ethan and I were reading, and Linna was lying beside me talking to herself. After a while, I realized she kept saying, "Hi! I'm Linna!" and then, wiggling her right pinky, "Hi! I'm Bluey-blue!" (Her pinky was blue due to earlier escapades with a blue pen.)

It made me remember when Ethan was younger, one time we were waiting for a long time for a table at Nicholas (one of our favorite restaurants), and he amused himself for half an hour by adding things up on his fingers. So both my kids can entertain themselves with nothing more than their own hands, but in different ways. Not that I'm going to assume in the future that Ethan is the smart one and Linna is the social one (the pretty one? isn't that the typical breakdown?), but it's interesting.

Anyway, Ethan and I both thought it was pretty funny, so the next day he said it to her, and then she went on and on about it for quite a while: "Hi! I'm Yoda! Hi! I'm Linna! Hi! I'm Meow-meow! Hi! I'm Bluey-blue!" She's quite the entertainer, just loves to make people laugh. She also sang a song about the cat puppet: "Meow, meow, meow, shining bright..." to the surprisingly accurate tune of a Laurie Berkner song about the moon.

Also, Linna tried mochi ice cream for the first time last night, after Jeff took both kids out to pho to give me a break, and then shopping at Fu-Bonn. Linna was all excited to have a pink one, and she decided I should have brown. She liked it, though she seemed to like the ice cream part better than the mochi part. Then today, Jeff's specialty of miso soup with clams and enoki. Ethan wouldn't try a clam this time, but Linna liked it. My little gourmands.

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