Sozlet stories

Adorable Onyx!

Today in the car driving home home the waterpark the 6 year old asks:

What happens if LIGHT people don't wear sunscreen?

*explanation follows* then she asks

Why don't black people wear sunscreen and LIGHT people do?

*explanation with unknown word follows*

What is melanin?

*explanation follows*

comment by 6 year old "well, I sure wish God gave everyone some melanin*

edit: LIGHT is what my husband wants them to use when referring to white people. *shrug*

I agree completely . . . what was she thinking ? ! ? ! ? (God, i mean.)

Beautiful Onyxelle, she glows! How great you must feel.

Yeah, Set, she really messed up big time with the melanin situation--especially with those of us with Irish blood. Sigh.

4 year old : mommy, did you see how I made these wings out of clay"
me: yes
4 year old: that's because I'm an artist
me: ahhhh
4 year old: you know how God put the blood into some of the birds? right? so they fly right?
me: yes
4 year old: tha's because some of them die.
me: ???
4 year old: you see I'm making the eyeball like an eye, so it can be like that. (she's rollinig clay round in the palm of her hand...that which USED to be wings for birds) I'm an artist

Those are toooo gorgeously cute! Especially the "lexiglance" / "lexismile" ones - little photomodel there!

Cant imagine anyone could look at the "lexismile" pic and not smile him/herself.

BBB
in 1962, my son (when he was age 7) and his friend were sitting in the back seat of our car while driving past the Kaiser building in Oakland, California. The friend asked," I wonder how they wash all those windows?"

My son, being very logical as well as practical replied, "They must have tall ladders."

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WONDERFUL! BBB

Love all the Onyx photos and stories. That smirk!

Earlier today:

I was getting sozlet ready, was starting to do her hair. She said she wanted to "style" her hair herself. (Guess who just took her first trip to a salon and loved it?) She said this in a rather.. haughty?... way, and I said, "Geesh, when did you get that attitude?" She tossed over her shoulder while looking in the mirror and smoothing her hair, "Oh, I've had it for years."

Yesterday: She was having some fruit and stuck her fork in it, and remarked, "Wow, that's really stable." I said hey, good word, where'd you learn that? She said, "In tummy class." Tummy class? "Yep, all babies take a class when they're still in their mamas' tummies." So they can talk as soon as they're born? "No [silly mama look], they can't talk when they're born. But they remember allll the words they learned in tummy class and then they start using them when they're like 2 or 3."

OK now everyone in the internet cafe looked up to see what that guy was suddenly chuckling about. LOL!


Wow .. thats kinda deep.

Just wanted to update the ear situation -- all better, FINALLY! Had the umpteenth follow-up appointment, and the ENT doc said that everything looks good in both ears. He said that the hearing loss from last time was directly attributable to the problems he observed and he didn't see a need to test her hearing again, the assumption is that her hearing is now perfect again. He had a long talk with her and said that her speech is better than most 8-year-olds.

So, whew! Of course, it's just in time to jump back on the merry-go-round -- school starts again in about a month. But at least if anything happens we have this guy to go back to, really pleased with him.

I've been awful about recording sozlet stuff, I remember thinking "I have to put that in sozlet stories!" but I can never remember WHAT I was thinking that about. Minor one... we were getting ready for dinner and she was being the waitress. She was getting plates and stuff. It was taking a while, E.G. and I were finishing preparations, we were talking about stuff in general, she said something sweet and I picked her up and was kissing her all over her face and telling her what a sweetheart she was. First she was giggling and then she got kind of stiff in my arms and with a slightly scandalized look said, "Hey! I'm your waitress!!." Oops. :-)

Yay! New sozlet story! (and a big YAY about her ears finally clearing up too!)

Tee hee, what a cutie. Don't manhandle the waitress!

hahaha, that's hilarious. At least she knows it's inappropriate to be kissing all over the waitress. Hopefully she got a big tip.

Good news, congrats!

I got to be around three different kids last weekend, theyre all cute. J's eight-month old I only saw for the second time, and what a darling! Not shy at all, open and curious about this new person in the room, she was immediately clawing at my face. So I started making bllubllubllu sounds every time she touched my mouth, that made her laugh and try again every time. It was also funny when I woke up, cause the little girl had of course long woken up before, so her mum had transferred her from her bedroom to her playpen in the living-room - right next to my mattress. So I opened my eyes to see her looking at me, her reaching her little arms out through the bars to touch this weird other-not-mum person in the room ;-)

Meanwhile, my sis says that my nephew really made some huge jump in his development when they were here in Budapest - so many new experiences and surroundings and things apparently really triggered him to pick up all kinds of new skills. He's much more communicative now too, not just running off this way and that in boundless energy but telling whole stories in his as-of-yet-hard-to-decipher brabble, about how in the playground, no mummie no daddy just auto (thats me) and there was this kid and ...

He also pulls me up to the couch, tells me to sit next to him and then conspiratively, gleefully looks aside at me: look at us sitting her side by side! Then starts pushing me so I'll start pushing him back ... jostling.

Funny too when you mention Budapest/holidays to him, he starts beaming and then starts babbling in real incomprehensible language - I was listening and it really wasnt his usual almost-Dutch, but a deliberate eastern-sounding nonsense-lingo - he was conveying how all those strange Hungarian kids had talked mumbo-jumbo to him!

I really liked observing him when his granpa came round to him, too. Cause my sis always tells me he really looks forward to seeing me, but I thought she was kindly exaggerating, for when I open the door he just kinda looks confused/nonplussed, like he doesnt properly know who I am for a first minute. But now I saw how when the doorbell rang, he jumped up from the couch, yelled "apa!!" (granpa) and gleefully and enthusiastically ran to the door - yaay! But when granpa then opened the door, he looked confused/nonplussed, like he didnt properly know who he was for a minute. So thats what happens! Cool

That's funny what you say about new experiences spurring development. We just took a long vacation to a place far away where everything is different. On the first day my kids came back, my son started riding a bike withou training wheels. And I mean riding like he'd been doing it for years. They both have started using another language for a couple of requests and I swear that's spurred their abilities in English. Amazing little sponges, they are.

Totally about new experiences/ developmental leaps.

Just now -- we were talking Beary and a new teddy bear named Tarah. (I was talking Beary, she was talking Tarah.) They were talking about Tarah's tag, and Tarah asked where Beary's was. I said that I'd taken it off when sozlet was a baby because it was scratchy, and showed her where it had been (a tiny sliver left in the seam.) Sozlet showed it to Tarah and said see, there's his tag scar.

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It's amazing what kids can learn even in the worst of cases. I have a 2 year old in care with me i call him goose. He has had sooo much trama and abuse done to him, went though 4 brain operations and yet you wouldn't even be able to tell other than the huge scar. He's such an awsome lil guy, never complains about pain the entie time even though I'm sure there was plenty. At first he wasn't talking much and the other day he just melted my heart. Got right past that slight wall I try an build so not to get to attached. I'v had him for now about 3 weeks and he is dancing and repeating and playing and every night I tell thm they are very loved. The social workers and doctors say most of it is repeat. I told them no I think he is trying to learn but they said no we don't think he is knowing how to use the words. But last night he said it with out me saying it first. I wasn't even by his bed. the second time he's said it. I was putting the 3 year old in his bed and Goose came up put his hands on my face and said it. I wa you. Ok its not I love you but close enough no? lol. Made my heart stop anyway and felt all warm and fuzzy inside. Poor baby I hope he gets a good home. He is doing so good concidering. Growing in leaps and bounds.