My didn't be hungry

My son has an interesting grasp of the English language. He manages to communicate pretty well most of the time with people who know his language. His pronunciation is a little funky (especially with the two missing front teeth) but what makes it extra challenging to understand him is his grammar.

He doesn't really grasp pronouns yet. Any time he refers to himself it is "my". Any time he refers to a group that he's part of it is "us".

Which is how we get sentences like "us went to wall-e theater" (he's decided that movie theaters are wall-e theaters. Not too surprising since Wall-e is the only movie he has seen in a theater).

And my most recent favorite: "my didn't be hungry". This was in response to my question about why he hadn't eaten all of his lunch earlier in the day.

I try not to stress about it, try to reassure myself that he will figure it out one of these days.

In the meantime I just try not to laugh.

Girls Gone Wild

No, not that kind.

Over the weekend I took Punkin on an overnight trip with seven other girls from her Brownie troupe (and six other mothers). We stayed overnight in the beach home of one of the girls, and it was a blast. It was great to get to know the other mothers, and fun to watch the girls interact in a group.

It wasn't very conducive to sleeping, though. The girls were all asleep by 11:00, and up at 6:30. Punkin told me the next day that after the first lights out the girls all climbed out of their sleeping bags and had a "silent dance party". Seven year olds. What a riot.

Life has been very busy lately - lots of social obligations, work obligations, and family obligations. The whole family drove up to Santa Rosa to see the Harlot last weekend - lots of fun, as always.

A little knitting has been happening - I blocked the pieces of Serrano today, and I'm almost finished with the current socks. I'm trying to start the next socks (Cookie A's German Stocking Pattern) but running into problems. I'm on the second sleeve for the Dale Fair Isle cardigan for Buddy - definitely need to finish it for him to wear this winter.

Must run along to bed - shouldn't be up this late to begin with!