Sweet teeth
For the longest time, Abel had just two teeth, and then this week four more broke through the top gum. How long he’ll keep them is anyone’s guess. We trunk-or-treated last night at the school where my brother Stephen teaches, and I was amazed that so many of the teachers tried to give Abel candy. (He’s only ten months old.) Afterward, as we waited in the McDonald’s drive-thru, Samuel told us that children eat McDonald’s at school on their birthdays. I’m skeptical, but it’s within the realm of possibility. (For his upcoming birthday, he’s asked for McDonald’s, chocolate cake with icing, and a piñata.) Daniel ate sweet toast for breakfast today, like most days, and then asked for ice-cream. I held him off fairly comfortably by pointing out that he’d only eaten half of his toast.
Abel’s pediatrician told me that children’ll eat anything until they start eating sugar, and then that’s all they’ll want.
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Karin uses Duolingo (an app, if you didn’t know) to practice Spanish, Welsh, math, chess, and sometimes piano. The sentences for practicing Spanish are like a high school/Almodóvar melodrama.
Abel’s pediatrician told me that children’ll eat anything until they start eating sugar, and then that’s all they’ll want.
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Karin uses Duolingo (an app, if you didn’t know) to practice Spanish, Welsh, math, chess, and sometimes piano. The sentences for practicing Spanish are like a high school/Almodóvar melodrama.
No saldré con él si usa ropa anticuada (I won’t go out with him if his clothes are out of date).Some Welsh sentences, translated:
Todas mis amigas son lesbianas (all of my woman friends are lesbians).
Owen is eating parsnips in the rain.See this compilation. A literature grad student ought to publish a paper about national stereotyping in Duolingo. But isn’t that what the app is for? When, really, will we have occasion to meaningfully use Icelandic or Korean? Isn’t tourism the point?
After the dragon had eaten Owen, it went to Cardiff.