I was listening in during Anya’s speech group this morning. The teacher was asking the kids questions. This is what I hear:

What animal barks? A dog!
What oinks? A pig!
What quacks? A duck!
What growls? MY TUMMY!

A week or two ago, Anya was playing pretend. A shiny rock was trapped inside a bracelet (or some similar scenario), and the rock was not happy. The rock was saying, “Help me! You da man!” I was confused. I tried to get her to explain to me what she was saying, she tried to act it out for me, which is something she does when she says something we cannot understand. I was still confused. The pretend game happened again when Andy was home, and he couldn’t figure out what “You da man!” was about, either. I was very perplexed. Usually one of us eventually figures out what she is trying to say. This time we were both stumped for days. One afternoon I was sitting at the table working on something while Anya was playing a Dora game on the computer. Suddenly, I hear, “You da man!” Er? I went over to the computer, where a person was trapped in a castle tower, “Help me! Help me! You da man!” Turns out that in Spanish, “help me” is Ayúdeme.