As I’ve mentioned before, we speak very little Swedish here at home. It always surprises me, then, to hear Petra speaking Swedish to herself when she plays. She can only have picked up the habit from Tage, who started using Swedish as his “play language” a couple of months after he started going to pre-school.
It’s pretty interesting, actually, to listen to the two of them. Interaction with us parents, and also with Lydia, is in English. Normal conversation between the two of them is in English. Talk to and about the Nintendo games is in English. Fighting is absolutely in English (and, increasingly, in blows). Play, however, is conducted in Swedish, almost without fail.
It will be fascinating, I think, to discuss all of this with them when they’re older and more aware of switching between the languages. I wonder if the same or similar patterns will hold.
Oh, and on the subject of Petra, I’ve done some work on her picture pages and added the following — take a look!
January/February 2008
March 2008
April/May 2008
June 2008
You know I was struck by a thought. You should print out all your blog entries and keep them in a book. Or perhaps on a dvd. I mean these are your diary and you want them to be accessible years from now, I think.
One of the last pictures of Petra and Tage hugging was sooo cute! Syskonkärlek!
Beautiful pictures and Petra has the most gorgeous eyes, ohhhh she is going to be such a heartbreaker when she is older.