From the mouths of babes

This evening, I was reattaching a toilet paper holder that has come off of its mount, and Josie came in looking at me with wide eyes. "Papa, doing?"

I'm constantly amazed at the things that Josie can say. Bilingual children start speaking more slowly than children raised with a single mother language on average, but Josie's development in German seems to be just about typical, and her English is already getting pretty good, too.

Some of my favorite things that she says:

- In addition to "moo", "oink oink", and other animal sounds, she's learned to moan "braaaaaains" when I ask her what zombies say.

- She's obsessed with running fast, and she always announces "'Phine, nell!" ('Phine, fast!) before she takes off.

- Whenever I put her socks on, I get one crooked and she complains "nein, Papa, falsch. So 'rum." (no, Papa, wrong. This way around.)

- When I tell her I love her, she's started saying "vuv yuu" back to me. It melts my heart.