Kids say the cutest things! I cooked manicotti for dinner, which was a first for the kids. When I told Emma (age 4) what they were made of she announced, "I'm gonna like bananacotti!"
Easton (18 months) still isn't talking, but he keeps us laughing just the same. Today at lunch I realized (too late) that if I give Easton a new food to try I should watch him eat it rather than researching how to type an umlaut.* I promise that I wasn't staring at the computer screen very long at all, but when I turned to check on him there was cottage cheese in his hair, his ear, all over his face, shirt and pants, with spoonfuls plopped all over the floor around him. He knows better, but apparently he was testing if the rules are still in effect when mom is on the internet??
*An umlaut is a set of two little dots above certain vowels in German words ... like naive in English. I would type one for you but I don't know how because just when I was about to try the instructions I noticed Easton...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
umlauts and bananacotti
Dr. Carmen Imes is the Associate Professor of Old Testament at Biola University in La Mirada, CA, and serves the broader church through teaching, speaking, writing, and creating YouTube videos. She earned a PhD in Biblical Theology (Old Testament) from Wheaton College under Dr. Daniel Block, an MA in Biblical Studies from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Charlotte), and a BA in Bible and Theology from Multnomah University. She and her husband, Daniel, served as missionaries with SIM 15 years. They have three children: Ana, Emma, and Easton.
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Ahh, cottage cheese. What a fabulous food! I'm afraid I don't care for the stuff myself, but somehow I've convinced both my kids it's delicious. I delight in Ali's ability to eat it with a spoon now; trying to get it from in between fingers used to drive me zonkers. Theo is surprisingly good at getting it in his mouth, but he too is quite charmed by the substance and certainly relishes an occasional (sneaked) opportunity to be artistic with it.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was Emma's way of saying omelet!! Hee,hee. Had fun talking to her the other day!
ReplyDeleteIn case you still haven't figured out umlauts:
ReplyDeleteAlt + 132 = ä
Alt + 137 = ë
Alt + 139 = ï
Alt + 148 = ö
Alt + 129 = ü
And kids do say funny things. Alec saw Ron Dozier's little girl get baptized a few weeks ago and asked me if he could get "appetized" too.
Selah
I have a list of umlauts....but I sure didn't know what they were called. Thanks! CoraLee
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