On her birthday Nora learned to say "bye bye" from Uncle Jonathan. She has known how to say "чао чао" and "dag dag" for quite some time but this was her first English word and she liked it a lot. So for the past two days she's been saying "bye bye" at regular intervals, much to my dismay! I'm joking of course -- English will be her primary language -- but it's amazing to see how quickly she picks up certain words now.
This morning I thought it was over. I took Nora under my arm to get a cup of coffee and in the elevator a lady talked a little bit to Nora. She didn't reply much, but sure enough, when the lady left and said "bye bye", Nora smiled and started repeating it again.
At the upside, she's doing pretty well with the two languages she's been hearing at home. One of her birthday gifts was a plush dog in a doggie house. She was playing with it tonight and when I asked "waar is het hondje?" and Sasha "къде е кучето?" Nora in both cases looked at the dog.
Another word she has learned is "hoppa", which is something we say when we put her down somewhere. And the biggest hit of all is "ba, ba" for ballon -- something she learned from an alphabet book Nadia has been reading to her.
Only four more days and Nora will be one year old. Irena will arrive tomorrow evening and the rest of the Zane family on Sunday.
Nora has a cold so none of us has slept very well the last two nights. She had a 102.5 degree fever Tuesday night but her temperature has come down and she should be fine by her birthday. She's a real trooper -- she gets annoyed because she can't breathe freely through her nose but she is still smiling a lot and even playing games with us.
This morning I proposed that we read a book together and I pulled out the "appel" book. But she pointed to the big Nijntje book with the animals and said "Nijn!" so we read that one instead.
We had some snow Thursday morning and Friday afternoon, a white world.
I worked on Saturday afternoon and we visited the Pentagon City mall. We met two people from my Bulgarian class there and I introduced Nadia and Milan to them.
On her birthday Nora learned to say "bye bye" from Uncle Jonathan. She has known how to say "чао чао" and "dag dag" for quite some time but this was her first English word and she liked it a lot. So for the past two days she's been saying "bye bye" at regular intervals, much to my dismay! I'm joking of course -- English will be her primary language -- but it's amazing to see how quickly she picks up certain words now. 
Only four more days and Nora will be one year old. Irena will arrive tomorrow evening and the rest of the Zane family on Sunday. 
We had some snow Thursday morning and Friday afternoon, a white world. 
