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Showing posts with label Slovene. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slovene. Show all posts

September 30, 2011

Fall days and young love

The weather has been amazing although it definitely feels like fall; cool crisp mornings and warm afternoons.  We've been trying to take advantage of every last ray of sunshine before the rainy season starts and the gloom of winter sets in.

Keenan has really been enjoying school again and his teachers tell me that his Slovene is really good.  Whenever I hear Keenan speaking Slovene it gives me warm fuzzies, not sure exactly why since I usually have NO idea what he is even talking about.  I guess I'm just proud of him!   He has been insisting on riding his bike to school, I finally gave in.  I had to reroute the path we take so that we're not on the main streets as much.  Even though we walk and bike on the sidewalks it still stresses me out...all the what if's I guess.

Picking up Keenan in the afternoons now takes 3 times as long due to Van wanting to play in the sandboxes with all the other kids.  It feels kind of mean to let him see all the kids playing and not let him, so I gave up.  What else do we have to do anyways.

Keenan and his girlfriend Sara are still very much in love.  They are constantly holding hands, touching, walking with their arms around each other and kissing.  Yes, kissing; on the cheeks and occasionally loud smacking on the lips kisses.  I seriously didn't think I would be dealing with this when he was only 4 years old!

Here's the two lovebirds playing out in our neighborhood



 Van got a turn too.  He wants to be a big boy so bad!  Everything that Keenan is doing Van is right behind him wanting to do it too.

June 11, 2011

Keenan's Slovene has been coming along pretty good (so we're told) and its been fun watching him play with the neighborhood kids and listening to him speak a foreign language that neither Eric or I know.  When Keenan is upset with Van he will now yell at him in Slovene... what he's saying we're not sure hopefully the other preschoolers aren't teaching him naughty words and he'll also say his name like the Slovenes do instead of Van like we say as in pronouncing it like the vehicle he will say the 'a' like 'aw'.  It's kinda funnny.  Keenan keeps telling me that I need to learn Slovene, or Sobene as he calls it.  Here's our conversation from the other morning.

Keenan:  Hvala (thanks)
Me:  Prosim (your welcome)
Keenan (with his eyes all big): MOM, you're learning Sobene!!  Good job!

He was clearly impressed.  I do know a few Slovene words/phrases.  I can understand a lot more than I speak since it's so close to Russian... not that I speak a whole lot of that either...

March 15, 2011

3 1/2 and already smarter!

Conversation with Keenan

Keenan : Mama, do you know what "ca ca" means?
Me: Uhm, I think it means poop
Keenan: Oh, your speaking Slovene. Hmmmm, do you know what lulot means?
Me: No, what?
Keenan: ha, it means "pee".  Your NOT speaking my language, I'm speaking Slovene and your speaking English!!

Yup, it's official Keenan is way smarter than we are.