We used a portable potty for playground/car trips where there wasn't necessarily going to be a real bathroom nearby, which worked really well. (If in nature, we just dispensed with the bag and just used it as something for her to sit on. It's not comfortable past the kid being a certain height/weight, but for a toddler it worked really well. Boys have it SO much easier though! :P Although O did manage to ricochet-pee in B's eye once, so there are some downsides to, as our pediatrician put it, "outdoor plumbing". :P)
then she paused, looked at me and asked 'kak po russki?"
Haha! That's fascinating, though, that she is thinking in terms of dedicated language. I mean, bilingual children clearly do, because mine always spoke the right thing to the right person, once they had both words in their vocabulary. And they were very small when they would get annoyed when people other than B would attempt to speak Hebrew to them, like when my parents used simple Hebrew words. I think O would just say "Net." grimly when they attempted this, and L said, "Ty ne dolzhen tak govorit'" to them, but she was a bit older than Tanya by then.
The book picked up for me when Jonathan Strange appeared, and even more so when JS met with Mr Norrell -- I do really love their dynamic. I do think it's a book that works to be read slowly, like, the pacing actually works pretty well with the length. But it does take a long time.
then she paused, looked at me and asked 'kak po russki?"
Haha! That's fascinating, though, that she is thinking in terms of dedicated language. I mean, bilingual children clearly do, because mine always spoke the right thing to the right person, once they had both words in their vocabulary. And they were very small when they would get annoyed when people other than B would attempt to speak Hebrew to them, like when my parents used simple Hebrew words. I think O would just say "Net." grimly when they attempted this, and L said, "Ty ne dolzhen tak govorit'" to them, but she was a bit older than Tanya by then.
The book picked up for me when Jonathan Strange appeared, and even more so when JS met with Mr Norrell -- I do really love their dynamic. I do think it's a book that works to be read slowly, like, the pacing actually works pretty well with the length. But it does take a long time.
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