dtm | More Katherine (Reply)

As I was writing my previous post, I knew I was forgetting stuff that Katherine is doing these days. I'll have to remember to post more often; in the mean time, here's two other things Katherine reminded me of this evening:

For a while now, she's been using “dark” as an intransitive verb. As in "Daddy, it's darking!" (at dusk) and "It darked outside" (when we have gone inside before sunset and come outside after it got dark).
Today, I pulled the plug on an electric jack-o-lantern she was holding since I didn't want her to get burned, and her reaction was "It darked out. Daddy, the pumpkin darked out. It needs new batteries."
She's been wanting to count in different languages.
This started a week or two ago when we were driving somewhere and I heard her saying “una, dos, tres, quatro, ...” (or close enough to that), and asked her what she was doing. “I'm counting the stars” (It was light out; this was a Dora reference). I told her she was counting in Spanish. She asked me if I could count in Spanish, and we then counted back and forth up to ten. (I'd say a number; she'd repeat it) When we got home, she said "I want to count in French." "Ok; count in French." "I don't know how. Can you count in French, Daddy?" So we did (I can get to ten, at least) and then tried German and Japanese.
We just did Japanese tonight when I put her to bed, and she's starting to learn bits of it - she responded "shi" to my "san" and "hachi" to my "shichi".

I found my digital camera again recently, and so took a few pictures of her that I'll post either tonight or tomorrow.