(German for The Boat). Leilani was playing in the bathtub yesteday, put her squirty fish into a bowl full of water and told me it was the “Fishi’s nest”, then dumped out the water, put the fish back in and let it sail on the surface, and called it “The boat”.
Articles are the latest grammar structure that Leilani started to integrate. German ones are a bit harder, there are six to start with and they change depending on the case the noun is in, so I was surprised to hear the first article in German.
Her longest sentences now are up to 8 words, and she really likes us to read a kid’s dictionary to her. One of her favorite phrases is “Mommy what’s that?”, she rarely asks any other (“how, why, who, when”) questions at the moment. Her favorite songs she sings herself are “Twinkle twinkle little star” and “Heile Heile Segen” she also sings a few words of Heidi (in German below, not yet in French) and a few others, sometimes she will hum a melody too.
Heidi, Heidi, deine Welt sind die Berge,
Heidi, Heidi, denn hier oben bist du zu Haus.
Dunkle Tannen, grüne Wiesen im Sonnenschein,
Heidi, Heidi, brauchst du zum Glücklichsein.Heidi, Heidi, komm doch heim,
Find dein Glück, komm doch wieder zurück.
