Thanks Nilly! Woke up to a grey rainy day today, with a son who refused point blank to sing Happy Birthday. Things can only get better!
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Fiona - Oct 25, 2004 10:47:04 pm PDT #7221 of 9843
Nilly - Oct 25, 2004 10:49:12 pm PDT #7222 of 9843
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a son who refused point blank to sing Happy Birthday
Shame on him! And in the pictures, he's so cute. Also, goodness, I can't wrap my brain around him being old enough to sing.
Things can only get better!
It's just spending all the grey-ness and lack-of-singing-ness of the year up front, when it starts, so that the rest of it is freed up to be fabulous.
Fiona - Oct 25, 2004 10:58:47 pm PDT #7223 of 9843
Also, goodness, I can't wrap my brain around him being old enough to sing.
You should hear him! It's getting so that he can even carry a tune. And he talks ridiculously fluently, in two languages. It's amazing.
I'm going out with SO for dinner at a restaurant tonight, ON OUR OWN, which is such a special treat nowadays that it's worth having a birthday to get it.
Nilly - Oct 25, 2004 11:13:40 pm PDT #7224 of 9843
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You should hear him!
Yeah, I really should. Sigh.
It's getting so that he can even carry a tune
That's better that I will ever be able to.
fluently, in two languages. It's amazing.
Does each of you talk with him in one language, or do you both use both languages? How does he choose which language to use?
ON OUR OWN
Yay you.
Gus - Oct 25, 2004 11:24:56 pm PDT #7225 of 9843
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Happy Birthday, Fiona. Teach the "Hippo Bird Day to Ewe, Hippo Bird Day to Ewe..." version. I bet he'll sing that.
Nilly - Oct 25, 2004 11:30:03 pm PDT #7226 of 9843
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Gus! It's been forever since I posted with you, I should have known to look for you here, in the thread that fits the timezones you're living in now.
Gus - Oct 26, 2004 12:30:39 am PDT #7227 of 9843
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Hi, Nilly! I got your email with the homework assignment. I'll drop a note in Firefly, when I get a chance to do those few things.
Fiona - Oct 26, 2004 12:32:28 am PDT #7228 of 9843
Does each of you talk with him in one language, or do you both use both languages? How does he choose which language to use?
We're doing the One Parent One Language method. So I only speak to him in English, and SO only speaks to him in German. That way, he doesn't have to chose the language, it's automatic depending on who he's talking to. It's the method with the least room for confusion. For him, anyway.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Oct 26, 2004 12:40:08 am PDT #7229 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Happy birthday, Fiona!
We're doing the One Parent One Language method. So I only speak to him in English, and SO only speaks to him in German. That way, he doesn't have to chose the language, it's automatic depending on who he's talking to. It's the method with the least room for confusion. For him, anyway.
I'm curious, does that break down when you speak to your SO in front of him? Or do you speak to your SO in English, and your SO replies in German, so that it's not a confusion?
Jim - Oct 26, 2004 12:43:07 am PDT #7230 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
All european parents talk to each other in French, don't they? There's a reason that "pas devant les enfants" was the first foreign phrase I learned...