three year olds, visits, and books

[ciroccoj]

You know, being three years old is hard enough in terms of making anybody understand what the frig you're saying. Being three and mostly only speaking Vietnamese in an English & French-speaking neighbourhood makes it doubly hard. So it's useful to be really, really cute. That way your neighbours won't know whether you're being naughty or you just don't understand them when they ask you not to wander into their homes.

These are things that our neighbour An has learned in the last few weeks, as the weather has left many front doors open along our street. She's an adventurous little kid. Beautiful smile. And one of the only English phrases she knows is "I waant!!"

She also knows "JUSSin!!" and "DAANya!!" Daanya doesn't really notice her. Jussin alternates between thinking she's one of the cutest movable objects in his world, and one of the most annoying.

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Visit from Todd & Susan & Turtle & Zany tomorrow. Yay!!

I miss them.

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Answers to the book meme:

1. Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity - Good. His dad had the pickup going.
   Hint: this children's book has been banned in several schools.
   Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson. I love this book. Can't read it, though. Makes me cry.
   
   
2. The seeds of the Little War were planted in a restless summer during the mid-1960s, with sit-ins and student demonstrations as youth tested its strength.
   Hint: "There! Is! No! Sanctuary!"
   Logan's Run, William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, guessed by linaelyn. Book = wow. Movie = OUCH. Oh, Ouch and Make it stop and Mommy and Ouch again.
   
   
3. Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth.
   Hint: You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
   The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran.
   
   
4. The volcano that had reared Taratua up from the Pacific depths had been sleeping now for half a million years.
   Hint: I have none. Sorry!
   Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke.
   Disturbing. Very disturbing.
   
   
5. One of the luckiest accidents of my wife's life is that she happened to marry a man who was born on the 26th of September.
   Hint: The fifth picture on this page.
   The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham
   Way beyond disturbing.

Comments

[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

I so should have gotten the Arthur C. Clarke and Kahlil Gibran ones.

We have a little "An" in our neighborhood, but he speaks only Tagalog. His name is Rafé, I think. Or Raphay. And he wanders the neighborhood less often, now that the guys over at 7-11 called the cops on him for raiding the candy piles. The cops were very sensitive in their handling of the matter, though. They just gave him a stuffie bear, and said let's go find Mama (though Dondé esta Mama? got them nowhere). When they got to my door, I knew which house to take him to (I'm only the third house from the 7-11.) I also was able to explain that he's in very little danger in our neighborhood, except for the cars. But to get to 7-11 he *did* cross the busy street.

I just typed "sleep" for "street". Guess what *I* need? Freudian much?

[tudorlady.livejournal.com]

Hint: this children's book has been banned in several schools.

teh fyuck? Why? I read this when I was 20...

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Dunno. I'd like to think it's because people are over-protective about character death and children, but somehow I suspect it's either the androgeny of one of the main characters, or the portrayal of a friendship between a boy and a girl.

[daf9.livejournal.com]

My memory's obviously gone. I've read 4 of those 5 - admittedly not in anywhere between 25 and 35 years, but still... :(