Talking with the Snoos

Its been interesting of late for Freja has begun to converse. Her subjects are few as yet and her vocabulary is barely comprehendable, but she obviously has opinions that matter to her for she goes to some length to express her dissatisfaction when ever something is not to her liking. Today for example she wished to watch ’Wallace and Gromit’ and not the ’Pingu’ which was cheerfully blabbing to itself in the background. She made this clear to me by pointing to a post card of W&G I have over my desk and chattering lively in her baby talk.
”Do you want to watch Wallace & Gromit?” I asked. She nodded her head emphatically, her face as solemn as a judges.
”You don’t want to watch Pingu?”. She shook her head and made an impatient grunting noise. The TV stands on a small wheeled table which can be moved to allow the screen to point into my room or the living room and she then grabbed this and tried to move it. She is pretty strong so it began to move but the wheels were caught on a able and given the oscilations she was causing I feared it was going to topple and break the screen.
”Don’t fiddle” I told her in Danish. I always say this when she is touching something she ought not to (usually my stuff) and frowning at me she stood with her hands on the TV. I repeated the order because she was till holding onto the TV and she threw herself to the floor and tried to cry. This is a common trick she has picked up from day care, but I ignore her for she is not a good actor and its not hard to see when she’s faking it
”You can go to bed if you keep that up” I told her and she immedietely stopped.
I nodded. ”Good”. I put ’Wallace & Gromit’ on and she brighten up considerably. She settled on the floor to watch it. About ten minutes later I lay down beside her and watched her face. She noticed this after a while and gave me a big smile then laid herself along side me to snuggle. I felt like the luckiest man alive.
Above is a picture of Freja immitating the Were Rabbit from another day...