Suzanne and "the boy"

While Suzanne's active vocabulary has become too much to list, her little self is becoming funny to describe.

At this point in her little bilingual life, my little girl (since she's no longer a baby!), is quite the chatterbox. I was woken up the other morning with "Mommy, morning!". There is at least one new comprehensible word a day and at least two incomprehensible ones, not to mention recent franglais inventions like "assit" (assis+sit).

Recently Suzanne has taken to singing, some songs we don't recognize (like when she seems to be singing "no not the birds"), but some of them, like the annoying Signing Time songs, we recognize all too well. I have to admit that it's very cute when she busts out in song singing, "I'm a girl I'm a boy I'm a girl I'm a boy." But there's something about that boy...

She still refers to "the boy" who hurt her nose at the park when my mom was here. And then yesterday, we went to the library. We got there too early so we had to go to the playground. Suzanne cried "book book!" until I managed to make her understand that the books had to wait a couple minutes. While we walked to the playground, a little boy road by on his bike. Suzanne clutched her water cup close as she eyed the boy and then said, "the boy. s'ma. deleau". Translation: the boy. It's mine (C'est à moi). de l'eau (water). And then for the rest of the day, she kept looking over her shoulder for the boy who was coming to take her water. Add this to the fact that she's been repeating, "non non c'est pas bien" (no no, that's not good) over and over for the past week, and it makes me wonder if the little boys at the nanny's aren't a bit grabby and naughty. Or maybe she's just learning early on that men in general can't be trusted. I don't know. You tell me.

Some of my favorite Suzanne-isms of the moment are: slide, push, run, pineapple, apricot, chocolat (in French), puddle, "open sesame" when I open the garage door and "hi Marcel" when passing by our car, named Marcel, to get into the building. I'm still so surprised at how much English is coming out of her mouth, but I'm sure it will change at some point. Maybe "the boy" will scare the English out of her but I hope not.