Some funnies from my ELL (English Language Learning) Girls

OK, so the girls are doing fantastic. Really they are! Kidist will pass kindergarten and be ready for first grade pretty on target. No big glaring delays. Bayat will move on from 4 year old kindergarten to the ole' fashion regular kindergarten that Kidist is now in. They have been speaking English only for quite some time and are really doing well. . . . .

So my dear husband (dh) has created this new rule about tattling or reporting as we like to call here at home. If one of the girls comes tattling, he asks her, "Are you hurt?, is your sister hurt, did you hurt your sister, did your sister hurt you?" and usually the answer is no, no, no, and finally no! So then dh says well, then you go work it out with your sister. And the usual, "but daddy. . . . ." So last Saturday morning, we are sitting around the family room reading the paper, sipping coffee and here come the girls, "mommy, daddy, so and so did. . . . . " Bond asks the important 4 questions and after he asks Kidist, "Did your sister hurt you?" she replies, "Yes, she hurt my feelings!" I had to do everything that I could to not laugh!! She's got his ticket and boy is she using it. So he listens for a minute to how her feelings were hurt and Kidist says, "Bayat stinked her tongue out at me." Now mind you she is very very serious and of course I am almost in hysterics because she really meant "stick" and I've already been holding my tongue for the feelings comment. So of course Bayat has to correct her and say "it's stick, not stink!" and we all start laughing. . . . And all week it has been our households funny phrase!!

Then there is the blueberry pie and ice cream story!! OMGoodness. . . . .Same weekend. We are having some blueberry pie after dinner and Kidist asks for the "white stuff" aka vanilla ice cream. She can't think of the word and she doing everything she can to describe it. We are letting her struggle a little bit because we want her to find the word on her own and finally Bayat says, "It's a** cream, Kidist!" (Ok, I hope you can figure out what the ** are!!) So once again, DH and I look at each other and really don't want to make a big deal, so we repeat (saying ice cream correctly for the example), "Oh, Kidist, would you like some ice cream?" But Bayat just keeps calling it a** cream!! She has no clue what she is saying and even after we have said the word a few times, she still has that little twang in the word ice!!

Oh well, it's all part of learning a new language and this weekend, we've had some fun with it!! I'm sure there'll be more!! I should really keep track!