Let me just get this out there - my daughter is a delight! Her heart overflows with kindness, her mouth gushes with sweetness and affection, and she possesses an empathy for others that is way beyond her years. Lately this precociousness has served her well as she settles into our new life in Thailand and the poor little thing commences learning her 3rd language in her very short 4 years on this planet. But I'm not sure if it's a result of growing up in multilingual environments, that it's simply her personality or most likely that it's just spot on for her age and development, but lately her a speech has been flush with this raw literalism, comedic non sequiturs and genius linguist inventions (which around here we refer to as speaking "Elkish") that have had me in stitches! It's gotten to the point where I've decided it'd be a sin not to share them as they're simply too good to waste. So with eternal gratitude to my incredible daughter, I joyfully present to you some highlights from the last month of 'Little Feather; Live & Uncensored.'
"Mummy, Mummy! I just saw a car spraying water out of it's bottom."
"Don't worry Daddy, Jesus will put the sick away from you."
"Dad, whenever my poo comes out it makes me cold, or warm, or hot."
"Daddy, yester-night when we went over the bridge the moon dipped itself in sauce and that's how it got orange."
"Dad, at school the peepee from all the doodles gets all over the ground and I don't like it very much."
"Daddy, Daddy! I saw a water fountain and it spat out a rainbow!"
"Dad, do you remember the fish with jelly on it? Wobble wobble wobble?"
"Mum, why do you love wearing chicken?"
"In night times Daddy spews in the potty.. Silly Daddy."
"Daddy, Daddy!! What's that noise upstairs? I think it's a Dinosaur! Or Mummy!"
"Daddy, I need a band-aid to put on my finger so the Germans don't get in and make it ouchie."
"Daddy, last time I was sick you forgot to bring me a bucket and all my vegetables came out onto the bed."
