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Not very often - I strive to dress her warmly enough that it doesn't come up. (Which reminds me, I wanted to get both of them some nice thermals.) But it has happened.
Today it was cold. It was very cold. And when we all came inside from picking up Ana, they started to play with their dolls. Their dolls... were cold. (Apparently. How they could be cold staying home with the heaters on and tucked under blankets I just don't know. I didn't ask.) They were so cold that, as Evangeline said, her doll, Baby Jill, was "frigering". She said it several times, I didn't mishear it.
And do you know what? From a girl who rarely has cute and unusual utterances, who speaks very clearly and correctly but not, I think, as imaginatively as some other children*, this is beyond adorable. And I can work out exactly how she came up with that translation of "shivering", too!
*Not that I'm complaining. But it's fun sometimes listening to children come up with new ways to express themselves to make up for the fact that they just don't speak that well yet (like the boy I saw who wanted to explain that penguins slide on the ice and, lacking the vocabulary, jumped off a chair and bellyflopped on the floor to make his point), and Evangeline... well, she speaks very well indeed. That's all.)
Today it was cold. It was very cold. And when we all came inside from picking up Ana, they started to play with their dolls. Their dolls... were cold. (Apparently. How they could be cold staying home with the heaters on and tucked under blankets I just don't know. I didn't ask.) They were so cold that, as Evangeline said, her doll, Baby Jill, was "frigering". She said it several times, I didn't mishear it.
And do you know what? From a girl who rarely has cute and unusual utterances, who speaks very clearly and correctly but not, I think, as imaginatively as some other children*, this is beyond adorable. And I can work out exactly how she came up with that translation of "shivering", too!
*Not that I'm complaining. But it's fun sometimes listening to children come up with new ways to express themselves to make up for the fact that they just don't speak that well yet (like the boy I saw who wanted to explain that penguins slide on the ice and, lacking the vocabulary, jumped off a chair and bellyflopped on the floor to make his point), and Evangeline... well, she speaks very well indeed. That's all.)
