I like "Jonathan Strange" when I read it, a lot, but when I'm not reading it my fingers are not itching for it. It's not the book I don't want to put down. At least not yet.
I can't remember if it ever became that book for me -- maybe at the very end. But as long as I had regular time to read it, I enjoyed it a lot.
Good luck with the potty training! Summer is a good time for it, yep! And it does sound like she's ready and taking well to it. (The little portable potties were such a great thing for potty training -- we carried them with us to the playground a lot. There are also these folding rings that work to turn an adult-sized toilet into a kid-accessible one -- that was also a must-have, for travel. Like this, though I can't remember if that's the exact brand.)
I am about a quarter of the way through the book now. Just met Jonathan Strange properly. The dialogue is pretty funny. I do like reading it but I know I would be reading quicker if I was more invested.
We have one of those rings you put on a toilet at my parents's house. It's great. For playground we just carry our usual one. She loves going to the big bathroom at the playground after to empty it. So we made it a game. She's been doing well so far.
Tanya cracked us up yesterday. She was on the potty before her bath and she loves bath. So she kept asking me "bath, bath, vanna, vanna, bath" then she paused, looked at me and asked 'kak po russki?"
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
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Yes, the sleep episode of Doctor Who was terrible! None of it made any sense, even the characters said so. Episode 11, though, is one of my favorites ever, I think. Peter Capaldi was amazing in that!
I'm glad you and Tanya had a nice week in Long Island. :)
I felt pretty much the same about JS&MN until I was about halfway through. After that I couldn't put it down. It's a bit slow in setting up all the characters, which I think is one reason.
Good to know about Jonathan Strange. I'm about 25% into the book, just met Jonathan Strange properly after his father's death. I'm finding his thought process pretty funny as he rides to propose.
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I can't remember if it ever became that book for me -- maybe at the very end. But as long as I had regular time to read it, I enjoyed it a lot.
Good luck with the potty training! Summer is a good time for it, yep! And it does sound like she's ready and taking well to it. (The little portable potties were such a great thing for potty training -- we carried them with us to the playground a lot. There are also these folding rings that work to turn an adult-sized toilet into a kid-accessible one -- that was also a must-have, for travel. Like this, though I can't remember if that's the exact brand.)
And AWWW at Tanya saying I love you! :D
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I am about a quarter of the way through the book now. Just met Jonathan Strange properly. The dialogue is pretty funny. I do like reading it but I know I would be reading quicker if I was more invested.
We have one of those rings you put on a toilet at my parents's house. It's great. For playground we just carry our usual one. She loves going to the big bathroom at the playground after to empty it. So we made it a game. She's been doing well so far.
Tanya cracked us up yesterday. She was on the potty before her bath and she loves bath. So she kept asking me "bath, bath, vanna, vanna, bath" then she paused, looked at me and asked 'kak po russki?"
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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 ( ... )
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I'm glad you and Tanya had a nice week in Long Island. :)
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I also don't really like fake documentary style and the visuals kept irritating me. And the story was just terrible.
Peter Capaldi is really amazing.
Thanks!
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I felt pretty much the same about JS&MN until I was about halfway through. After that I couldn't put it down. It's a bit slow in setting up all the characters, which I think is one reason.
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Good to know about Jonathan Strange. I'm about 25% into the book, just met Jonathan Strange properly after his father's death. I'm finding his thought process pretty funny as he rides to propose.
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