she said "I love you," she ate and loved broccoli tonight, and now she's dancing around the living room to Joan Jett. She posits that a toddler could not be any better even if she were dipped in platinum.
I agree with JZ!
Dylan is many months away from sentences, but has been adding words to his vocabulary at a pretty alarming rate. He doesn't use all of them consistantly or meaningfully yet, but his repetition skills are MAD, yo. (Except for the letter R, which he can't do at all. So his Auntie 'Rina is "Mina!" and the Roomba is "Moomba!" When you're 15 months old, everything has exclamation points!)
And in political news, a college friend of mine has as his current Facebook status:
has astronaut experience because he can see the moon from his house?
LOVE.
Except for the letter R, which he can't do at all.
He and the rest of the Israelis. We really don't pronounce R's, at least not the way others pronounce it, but there's a way to pronounce it with the tongue, mostly in singing.
Foreigners and people that (who?) doesn't know Israeli names usually needs me to spell my name to get it right, or else it sounds like "she".
When you're 15 months old, everything has exclamation points!
Very exciting!
Timelies all!
Supposed to be hot today. Oh, joy.
But it's odd and cute the way she says it. Like she's pronouncing it phonetically, and Latvian is her first tongue.
Matilda has killed me ded with cuteness.
He and the rest of the Israelis. We really don't pronounce R's, at least not the way others pronounce it, but there's a way to pronounce it with the tongue, mostly in singing.
When I was learning Hebrew as a kid, they told us that the letter "resh" is pronounced like we pronounce R. It totally confused me on my first trip to Israel when I realized that that's totally not how Israelis pronounce it. (I'd heard people with Israeli accents before, but it hadn't really registered until I was surrounded by them.) I mentioned this to Nilly on the phone, and she tried to teach me how to pronounce "resh," which mostly ended up with me sounding like I was about to swallow my tongue.
OK, laundry is in. That's something.
she tried to teach me how to pronounce "resh," which mostly ended up with me sounding like I was about to swallow my tongue
I think it just takes practice, and the best practice is to sing along to songs with a lot of "resh" in them, sung by "old fashioned" Israeli artists ("old fashioned" as in "they're pronouncing it right"). I'd start with Chava Alberstein.
Link, link, and another one.
This is some of my favorite part of the weekends. I have dropped mac off at kids' church, but my church service is still half an hour away, so I go out and get coffee and some food, chill (today I'm knitting), sometimes I do some shopping.
So, theoretically, I could go out and do something with my day before this wedding tonight. But what? Maybe Lord & Taylor. Or Costco, but it's already hot and sticky, and the walk is not appealing. Hmmmm.
