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\nCompared to last month, the flood of inte!<\/i> (“not!”) has abated somewhat, although we still hear it quite a lot. Adrian can say Inte \u00e4ta pannkakor! Jaaa! Pannkakor!<\/i> in one breath. (“Not eat pancakes! YES! Pancakes!”). It seems like a reflex.\n<\/p>\n
\nBut in general he definitely is more positively disposed towards the word. He has learned to both nod and say Jaa!<\/i> to agree with things. But he doesn’t always remember that option, so generally I interpret silence as assent, and I am usually right.\n<\/p>\n
\nHe can also say tycka om det<\/i> (“[I] like this”) and uses it widely, for example tycka om det banan<\/i> and tycka om det tiss<\/i> (about bananas and boobs) and about Pippi, favourite books etc.\n<\/p>\n
\nHe constructs more complex sentences now, with more component parts. Jag vill inte \u00e4ta<\/i>, and ocks\u00e5 g\u00e5 ut<\/i>. In particular he’s learned to make sentences that describe what he is doing: jag sitter h\u00e4r<\/i>, jag kl\u00e4ttrar h\u00e4r<\/i>, etc. He also comments on what others do: Ingrid ledsen<\/i> (“Ingrid sad”) or pappa bakar<\/i> (“pappa is baking”, when he felt the smell of freshly baked bread in the house) or t\u00e4di jookseb<\/i>.\n<\/p>\n
\nHe asks questions. Probably the most common one is nonu g\u00f6r?<\/i>, “man doing?” (mixing Estonian and Swedish) which means “what is that man doing?”. Another frequent one is var \u00e4r emme?<\/i>, “where is emme?”. That one has now also developed into a primitive hide-and-seek: he crawls under the kitchen table and suggests that I ask “where is Adrian?”. I do that a few times and then he bursts out, h\u00e4r \u00e4r Adrian!<\/i>\n<\/p>\n
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\nHe makes jokes. He points at my breast and tells me he will eat it; he points at a glass\/my skirt\/a fork\/a pen and says “sandwich!” and laughs. He likes me to make the same kind of jokes – to call things with the wrong name, to joke about eating obviously non-edible things.\n<\/p>\n
\nSpeaking of eating, he has had some major eating phases this month, putting away 6 potatoes for dinner, or 4 large pancakes – more than what Ingrid eats. As usual, his appetite waxes and wanes, and some days he eats close to nothing. His is still quite conservative when it comes to food and will especially not touch any unknown vegetables, or any food where things are mixed together, such as casseroles or soups (apart from porridge). Although there was one week when he tested a fruit smoothie, and some soup, and a piece of roasted parsnip, and a bit of persimmon. There is hope for him yet, I guess.\n<\/p>\n
\nAdrian is still very fond of music and often asks me or Eric to sing for him. He himself sings, too, and knows large chunks of many songs by heart – and sings them clearly enough that I can recognize the melody. He has definite favourites and often asks for specific songs – and vice versa, often asks me to skip other songs that I try to sing for him. All the Pippi songs are his absolute favourites: above all the main Pippi theme song but also Mors lilla lathund<\/i> and Sj\u00f6r\u00f6var-Fabbe<\/i>. That last one we have on a CD, and that song has been playing for what feels like hours every day recently. Nevertheless the Pippi theme song is best of them all. He asks for it when he is bored, he asks for it when I change his nappy, he asks for it as a lullaby.\n<\/p>\n
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