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August 10, 2005
Cooler than hot, warmer than cold
Azmina has been talking A LOT lately.
She seemed to be able to grasp reason much more than she did a few months ago - and this had led to her ability to maintain long conversations.
This new expressive skill that she acquired has made it so much easier and more conducive for negotiations. Sometimes she even offers possible answers to her questions, which she would find acceptable:
Azmina: Bread with peanut butter... bread with peanut butter...
Me: No, dinner first.
Azmina: We'll buy bread later?
Me: Err, yeah.. we've run out of bread. We'll get some later.
Azmina: (Smiles) (Runs to N) We're buying bread later!!!!
Something like that. Of course she hasn't got the grammar all figured out.
And consider the current peanut butter situation with one not too long ago:
Azmina: bread with peanut butter... bread with peanut butter
Me: no, dinner first....
Azmina: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA..... bread with peanut butter!!!!!
Me: ....
Azmina: WAAAAA.... WAAAADE ... WWAADE (runs away)
But the most significant development related to all this is that she now understands me better.
Azmina had previously rejected ... well... expressed strong displeasure for anything I do that doesn't please her. This includes getting involved in giving her medicine; and it doesn't matter if N has the job of pinning her down while I squirt the 5 drops cough syrup into a throat that screams of unworldly pain, or the other way around - N gets away with presidential immunity while I... I get to be given the Azmina special for several weeks. Even if she forgets why she was mad, she'd still remember that she had planned to ignore me for two months.
Where is this going? I don't know. But I mean... just look at her face... I dare you not to be happy.
Posted by quickness at August 10, 2005 02:22 AM
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