Philip's Quote of the Day
- Mar 22 2003:
Jag pratar nästan som en vuxen.
- Dec 18 2002, watching hockey:
Everybody wants the puck.
Those guys need to share!
- Nov 7 2002:
Himlen är jättestor. Den kommer ända till Brasilien. Och Sverige.
(The sky is huge. It comes all the way to Brazil. And Sweden.)
- Aug 14 2002:
When you are ten years old, then you can reach the sky.
- Apr 6 2002:
Pappa, your teeth are yellow.
- Apr 6 2002:
I want to get strong. I'm not strong yet.
- Mar 4 2002:
Pappa, can you do me a favor?
- Jan 28 2002, to Kathryn Northeimer:
You have two babies. I have one baby. And I'm going to get
two babies. (Comment: that's news to me! :)
- Jan 3 2002:
I'm gonna eat all this food and then I get big.
Shortly thereafter: I ate all my food. I want some dessert.
- Nov 26, 8pm, after being told it's bedtime:
Pappa, go upstairs and work!
- Nov 25, after lunch, after being told it's nap time:
No, I just woke up today!
- Nov 6:
Squirrel, where are you? I have two delicious acorns here!
- Oct 10 2001, 7:30pm: Where did the blue sky go?
- Sep 2001, on a Friday evening, after being told that it's bedtime:
Fridays no bedtime!
Philipeese-English Dictionary
(January 2001) I speak Swedish with Philip. Angelica speeks Portuguese with him.
At daycare he hears English. So far, he's probably drawn the only
logically possible conclusion: everybody speaks their own private
language, so he might as well invent his own; Philipeese.
Parents infallably insist that every randow sound that their
toddler makes actually means something, but that nobody except them
understands. Angelica and I are just as bad.
So to prepare you for meeting Philip, here's a dictionary of some of his
most obscure specialties:
| Philipeese | English
|
| uh-oh | what you say when throwing something on the floor
|
| dee | what you say when walking up/down stairs (once per step)
|
| luhluhlj | milk/juice
|
| la-la | lamp (turn it on/off)
|
| luh-luh | radio (turn it on/off)
|
| lulu | moon
|
| brrrr | snow
|
| luh | leaf (Swedish: löv)
|
| vav-vav | dog
|
| nam-nam | food
|
| dat | what's that?
|
| ma (pointing) | do what I want with that
|
Thanks to
Jennifer Milligan
for suggesting this. If you feel that I've just wasted
a minute of your time, please blame her.
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