Tegnap este NAGYON buszkek voltunk Norira. A furdes kozben eloszedtem a betuit, amivel jatszani szoktunk. De ahelyett, hogy csak a hangokat kerdeztem volna, csinaltam beloluk egy 3 betus angol szot. Csodak csodajara, miutan egyenkent megmondta a hangokat, ossze is olvasta oket. Persze adtam neki sorban a tobbit is, igy ilyen szavakat olvasott ki (angolul): cat (macska), dog (kutya), hat (kalap), mat (matrac), bib (eloke), hot (forro), Zack (egy fiu nev) es meg sok mast. Magyarul ezeket: ho, bab, es meg egy parat. Nagyon orulunk, hogy ilyen gyorsan megertette, hogy kell osszeolvasni hangokat.

Last night we were VERY proud of Nora. During her bath I took her letters out with which we usually play. Instead of just asking her the sounds, I showed her a 3 letter English word; after she said all the sounds individually, she blended them into a word! Of course, I started making more and more words for her, and she read more than 10: cat, dog, hat, mat, bib, hot, Zack, etc. We are so glad that blending sounds comes this easy to her.

On Sunday, January 20th we took Nora to her first bowling. She really enjoyed it, especially the first game – then she got a little tired. This bowling alley had both the guards and a special metal guide for children so that she did not have to throw the ball. We will definitely try this again.

Januar 20-an elvittuk Norit bowlingra eleteben eloszor. Nagyon elvezte, foleg az elso jatekot, aztan mar egy kicsit faradt volt. Ebben a bowling helyben az volt a jo, hogy a palya szelere felhuztak a vedokaput es a gyerekeknek adtak egy fem labda vezetot is, igy Norinak nem kellett dobnia a labdat. Ide meg biztosan megyunk majd maskor is.

Nagyokat mosolygunk mostanaban Norika nehany angol kifejezesen – ezeket leforditani nem lehet, igy csak megadok egy magyart is:
ahelyett, hogy szerettem volna o ezt mondja: szerettetem.
Sokszor belekeveredik egy-egy angol szo a magyar mondataiba, de a magyar ragozast akkor is betartja veluk.
Pl. Emlekszel, amikor beutottem a toe-imat? (toe=labujj)
A babaim is a bed-emben fognak sleep-elni. (bed=agy, sleep=alszik)

Recently Nora has been saying words, phrases and sentences that make us smile. Just like other children, she has trouble with past tense. These are the funniest ones:
Instead of did, she says do-ed, which sounds like dood. Instead of went, she says go-ed (goad).

2 sentences she said recently:
Why did I not gonna come?
Why did I not be good today?

And when Mark and Nora were baking cookies from a homemade cookie jar (all the ingredients are in a jar), Mark told me:
“I found a flaw in the cookie jar method.” (The brown sugar was stuck to the bottom.)
Nora nervously looked in the jar:
“Where? Where is the fly?”