It begins!

I am Emily and I am a nanny for a pair of girls (aged 3 & 4) and they were just adopted together from Russia one year ago. They are darling, happy kids but like all children they're totally nuts and they say the strangest things. This is partially an age thing and partially due to the fact that they have only been English speakers for a year. I think I'll give the girls pseudonyms for the sake of anonymity. Let's call the older one Lana and the younger we'll call Sveta.

This blog will be the story of me and the girls and the battle for absolute truth and understanding or just for good behavior and that ill someday understand what Sveta is saying to me! (she mumbles so much that she sounds like Van Morrisson circa Astral Weeks)

I figure this will mostly be a log of the weird things they say and do. So brace yourselves. This will be a bit odd.

For example, in the last three days we've had the following...

Sveta chased her dad through the house shouting "Eat my ear!! Eat my earrrr!!!"

While watching Sleeping Beauty (Which is waayyy over their heads) at first site of Aurora's distress Lana exclaimed, "she wants her man!!!"

Some of Lana's play has been aggressive lately so we've encouraged niceness so while playing with a toy snake (which she used to call the mean snake and punish with timeouts liberally) she said, "Nice snake...YOU'RE GONNA BE MUSHED LIKE THE PUPPY!!!"

Currently the girls are reprimanding their own reflections in a mirror. "come right here! Right now!" etc.

Oh well! More later.