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A math equation at a train station
Today is my niece's third birthday. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
derspatchel and I gave her Daniel Pinkwater's Mrs. Noodlekugel (2012), an illustrated chapter book with dancing gingerblobs and far-sighted mice, and Yuyi Morales' Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book (2003), a bilingual picture book starring Señor Calavera and the tricky Grandma Beetle. She seemed especially interested in the latter—it's gorgeously painted and she likes skeletons—and was encouraged by her parents to sing me something which she calls "The Five Singing Skulls Song," but was then too distracted by tearing the paper off another present to follow through. Her big present from her parents is a Märklin model train which looks like the commuter trains that run through Radolfzell. It runs electrically on a double loop of track and makes station announcements in German if you hit the right button on the controller. She had me place my feet on either side of the track to make a bridge for the train to rattle beneath. Then she had my mother stand over the other loop to make the next bridge. When it went off the rails, she called me to fix it. ("Uncle Sonya!") She's in love.
derspatchel and I gave her Daniel Pinkwater's Mrs. Noodlekugel (2012), an illustrated chapter book with dancing gingerblobs and far-sighted mice, and Yuyi Morales' Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book (2003), a bilingual picture book starring Señor Calavera and the tricky Grandma Beetle. She seemed especially interested in the latter—it's gorgeously painted and she likes skeletons—and was encouraged by her parents to sing me something which she calls "The Five Singing Skulls Song," but was then too distracted by tearing the paper off another present to follow through. Her big present from her parents is a Märklin model train which looks like the commuter trains that run through Radolfzell. It runs electrically on a double loop of track and makes station announcements in German if you hit the right button on the controller. She had me place my feet on either side of the track to make a bridge for the train to rattle beneath. Then she had my mother stand over the other loop to make the next bridge. When it went off the rails, she called me to fix it. ("Uncle Sonya!") She's in love.
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Nine
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I try!
Her parents and another set of related adults confirmed that she does not seem to understand the gender distinction between "uncle" and "aunt" for any of her parents' siblings or their partners, which honestly I am fine with.
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Nice!