By popular (read: wifely) demand, here's a great video of Jacob walking on the bridge between Windsor and Eton.
As this is ever-changing, I should note the kids' favourite expressions this week are:
- "Uh-ohhhh" whenever anything is dropped (or thrown) or whenever anyone falls down
- "Nooooooo", especially as a response to "now we're going to change some diapers"
- "down", which Molly says on every stair during her descent
- "more", for more food, more books, more swings, more anything
- animal sounds - they seem to have quack, baaa, and mooo down pat and occasionally a meow and a twit twoo. Woof substitutes for all other animals.
- "Baba" which is what they call me
- "Molly" is pronounced by both of them as pretty close to "Mama"
- "Dayka" is Molly's usual pronunciation for Jacob. For a while she called him "Jay Jay", which is pretty funny because "jie jie" is the Mandarin word for big sister, so I thought she was reminding him that she's the older of the twins.
- "Mama" is occasionally what they call Kate, although quite often when we say "where's mama" they look at you like you're asking where Elvis might be. Kate's not amused.
My parents arrive this afternoon and Kate and I are escaping to the Muskokas tomorrow for a night away.
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