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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
surprise home coming - 05:24 PM
(filed under 'smiley')
i got some surprise news yesterday. shroom is coming back to australia. his plane is due in on saturday morning. i'm not sure how long he'll be here for, but regardless, smiley is very pleased at the prospect of having his dad nearby.
he's quite excited about seeing his daddy again after so long. he's been seeing him on cam regularly, but it's not the same as in real life, is it?
i asked him just before if he was excited about daddy coming back on saturday & he said that he wanted him to arrive now.
he's going to have a sleep over at rudi & audrey's place on the friday night & then go with them to the airport early saturday morning. i suspect that shroom will be just as excited to see smiley as smiley will be to see him. shroom will probably be tired as anything after a long flight from germany, but i imagine smiley will talk a mile a minute all the way home, if history proves anything. i'm sure shroom won't mind a bit. 
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the subtle inflections of the english language - 04:34 PM
(filed under 'smiley')
sometimes, although i'm not sure why it does, it suprises me how much a four year old can understand. especially insights gained just by osmosis.
smiley was writing something & i was helping him by spelling out the words. usually, when i spell something, as most people probably do, i'll do it all of the letters of the word said with a fairly even toned inflection, then the last letter said with a downward inflection to indicate that i've finished spelling the word.
on this occasion, perhaps i was distracted by doing more than one thing at a time, & i toned all the letters of the word the same, maybe not realising that i'd come to the last letter of the word until i said it. smiley noticed & came up to me & told me that i had to 'say the last letter different' & he gave an example of it, giving it a downwards inflection.
it was funny & cute & sort of took me by surprise. they pick up these things without us even knowing it. i promised him that i'd try to do it properly from now on. hehe.
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