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So, Evangeline's at that age where they really like to roleplay the most banal situations.

And she loves having me. She gives me my lines before every scene. Today she got very upset that I simply Did Not Understand she wanted me to be the big girl, because her doll had to be the baby, because BABY JILL CAN'T TALK!!!!

Ahem. (She says humph a lot too lately, and "I don't care", which she picked up from her sister.)

Yesterday she cracked me up. With my help, she called her mom. And right before Jenn picked up she turned to me and said "Talk really youdly. Talk youdly when I'm on the phone." So I went "I'm interrupting you, I'm interrupting you, I'm interrupting you" over and over again until she stopped, turned around, and said "Connie! Don't talk youdly when I am on the phone!"

I almost fell out of the hammock, I laughed so hard! That's right up there with Ana "putting Nanen in time-out", telling her to cry (to be more realistic, I guess...?) and then coming back and demanding to know why she was crying.

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I need to have a girl. I love my son, but I don't think boys play this way.

I don't think it's possible to generalize on the basis of three children, one of whom (Evangeline) has no doubt been influenced by her older sister.

Remind me again, please, who "Nanen" is?

My mom, her grandmom. I call my mom "Mommy", and usually do to the girls too, but I *try* to remember to refer to her as Nanen so they don't have to ask which Mommy.

Ah, I see.

How do you pronounce it?

Just the way it's spelled. We're supposed to spell it in French, but we never do. My mother gets quite irritated at this, but none of us ever claimed to be able to write in French, and she really should've given us the correct spelling before we started writing her name elsewhere.

Just the way it's spelled.

Hm, English spelling is notoriously unreliable, but - something like "Nay-nin", then? Rhyming with "trainin'"?

More like rhyming with trann-in. Or tran-en, I guess. I'm the only one in my family who merges in and en. I think my dad did too.

Or plannin'?

I see.

I'm the only one in my family who merges in and en.

I don't merge them in stressed syllables (I keep "pen" and "pin" apart, for example), but I think I merge them in post-stress syllables -- "roses" sounds as if it's spelled "roziz". (I've heard that unstressed vowel called a "schwi" -- a bit like a "schwa", but closer to the sound in "bit".)

I don't merge unusually except before n and m.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_high_front_vowels

See, pin-pen merger! Very common in some parts of the country. Just not *this* part, I guess.

I need to have a girl. I love my son, but I don't think boys play this way.

I don't think it's possible to generalize on the basis of three children, one of whom (Evangeline) has no doubt been influenced by her older sister.

Remind me again, please, who "Nanen" is?

My mom, her grandmom. I call my mom "Mommy", and usually do to the girls too, but I *try* to remember to refer to her as Nanen so they don't have to ask which Mommy.

Ah, I see.

How do you pronounce it?

Just the way it's spelled.

Hm, English spelling is notoriously unreliable, but - something like "Nay-nin", then? Rhyming with "trainin'"?

More like rhyming with trann-in. Or tran-en, I guess. I'm the only one in my family who merges in and en. I think my dad did too.

I don't merge unusually except before n and m.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_high_front_vowels

See, pin-pen merger! Very common in some parts of the country. Just not *this* part, I guess.

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