05 May 2009

Happy Birthday to Meisje!

Meisje had a wonderful birthday today (as far as we can tell :).

This is my new favorite video - She's singing Happy Birthday to herself and enjoying her birthday blueberry muffin.


22 April 2009

Meisje's Dutch

Meisje is speaking more and more Dutch lately. Just in the last week, I remember 4 or 5 times when she spoke clear Dutch in answer to a question or in response to her Papa. For example, Papa always asks her "Heb je hulp nodig?" (Do you need help?) and a week or two ago I noticed that she would start saying "Hulp!" when she needed help on something - clearly Hulp, not Help. And this weekend, she said, "Hulp. Hulp nodig!" Very cute.

I am trying to remember some of the other things she has said recently and will have to ask Papa to help me remember to write them down when she does ... one thing was that as we have been occasionally hiding Easter eggs or at least playing with them, she does sometimes call them eieren instead of eggs.

I love to watch her develop and we are so tickled that she is clearly learning sone Dutch words as she goes along, too.