Danke schön, lieber Daddy!

This morning, when I brought Amy her bottle of water, she said, "Danke schön, lieber Daddy!", which I thought was really sweet.

Toddlers know all about people who try to take stuff that isn't theirs

Mark Dominus recently posted a blog entry on "tough questions", or questions that are easy to ask but tough to answer.

One portion I especially liked was where he was explaining a book he was reading to his three-year-old daughter, which included explaining pirates; he said that she seemed to understand [this], because toddlers know all about people who try to take stuff that isn't theirs. Hee!

To have or not to have

I just read in this comment:

I'd write
mae ganddi hi for 'she has'
mae ganddo fo for 'he has'

and it struck me how similar it is to Maltese: jien għandi "I have", hu għandu "he has", hi għandha "she has". Purely by coincidence, of course, but still fun.

(And also how the construction works out: apparently, in Welsh, "I have" is literally "Is with me", and in Maltese, "I have" is also "(I) at-me" (with "is" understood, e.g. "at-me a table" = "at me, there is a table" = "I have a table"). Though AFAIK you can also treat it like a verb and, for example, put an optional subject pronoun in front, so you could have "jien għandi mejda", or literally "I at-me table".)

Straw widower

Stella and Amy have gone to Wuppertal over the weekend for my nephew's birthday; they'll be back on Tuesday.