Baby blues.

My cousin surprised me last weekend when I realised I had seriously underestimated her abilities. She understood what we said. If someone asked where Rape (= a teddy bear duck making quaa quaa noises) is, she had an idea where to look it from. AND she could show some of her body parts when named by someone else: ear, nose, belly button, toe (= "vaava"). And then of course the most important ones: "ei" (accompanied by shaking of ones head and having an idea of the things she is not to play with) and "gaugo" (= kauko = remote control; she is a wannabe-engineer if based on her fascination to all technical stuff she's not allowed to play with). We are yet to decipher the meaning of "taijiliji". Getting her dressed was a small miracle: she could have been Superman, she went around so fast. Putting on the shoes was the new clash of the titans when I wouldn't let go off the shoelaces until I could tie them up to prevent her tripping because of them. Eventually we both had to give in a bit but I did manage to finish the job. After a few minutes... And eating and sleeping are no fun with the teeth about to burst. Hopefully they'll burst soon, both for her sake as well as her parents' sake.