A riddle, what is this? You soak in it, splash around and play in it with a rubber ducky. You can also drink from it, preferrably milk, or soymilk. It also flies through the air going twiet twiet twiet. And finally, its the place one uses as a toilet?
It’s a Badi. That’s what it sounds like to us at least. “Badi” is german babytalk for a bath. “Botti” is a bottle. “Boadi” is a birdie, most likely followed by twiet twiet. And “Potty” is a very urgent matter, and better not misunderstood and discussed for a long time (yes Leilani finally reports having to pee too!! Sometimes). Unfortunately I’m not a good role model for keeping “P” and “B” appart, or “T” and “D”, or “V” and “W” and the “R” is swallowed into an “A” like sound.
Beer and Bear is another one. I’m actually not that happy she says beer at all, but it sure is funny. She saw someone drinking from a beer like bottle at the airport and went “BEEEER!!!”
Also “Wischi” (wipe one’s mouth, german babytalk) and “Fishi” are hard to tell appart by sound, but mostly the context makes it clear.
Other recent words are “Buch” (german book) “Sitzi” (german sit), “Momo” (monkey), “Apple” (any remotely round fruit) “Hei-Hei” (german Night-night), “Ducky” “Jesus”, “Sus” (shoes), “leaf”, “Apa” (open), “Moon” and her new favorite “No”. There are also a few new animals sounds, she does the elephant better than I do, and says Mooo for the cow,
It seems she tacks on an “i” at the end of a lot of words, which I heard a lot of german speaking babies do, and I wonder if I inadvertantly encourage this.
