dynamic elf

So, ceelove and I took the small girls to Montreal last weekend and I brought back some kids' books. This week's timeline:

Sunday: N requests "da Caillou book" all time time. She asks for cornichons, but seems to just think of it as an English word, which maybe it is.

Monday: N spontaneously notes that "bah NWEE" (bonne nuit) means good night.

Tuesday: She asks what every single thing in every French book is called, and can repeat several of them.

Wednesday: She wakes up suddenly able to repeat French words in a French accent rather than the American accent of the previous few days. (Seriously, you should hear her say maman or something.)

Friday: She corrects me, politely, as I read a French book. We were reading a Petit Ours Brun book (Little Brown Bear), and the first time I said ours, she said, "ourson" (teddy bear). Now, she hadn't encountered a BEAR bear before in her books, just teddy bears, so her correction was completely understandable; I explained to her that ourson just meant stuffed animal bear, and ours referred to bears, like we say "teddy bear" and "bear". (She accepted this idea.)

Monday 2/18: I ask her, in French, what chickens say, because she was just saying "cot cot cot cot!" (which is the answer, for those playing along). In English, she replies, "and they EAT EGGS", because this is her favorite misconception about chickens that she likes to tell me about because she knows it gets my goat.

Also, upon learning that chickens say cot cot cot cot cot, both dilletante and veek independently arrived at the conclusion that they must say cot cot cot cot CODEC!, which indicates pretty strongly that I hang out with the right people.

Oh, ALSO also, they both believe that "petit à petit, il s'habitue à l'obscurité" ("and little by little, he gets used to the darkness") is a creepy line to put in a kids' book, but I think the clear winner so far is still "so the vet pulled on his LONGEST latex glove...".