Sabine and I keep talking about how I should post more things here. About how like Martha, wearing a vest, went up to one of the fathers in our daycare recently and said, "Look! I have a sweater with without-arms (mit ohne Ärmel)!" It goes back to when she was much smaller and used to always ask for her "tights with without-socks (mit ohne Socken)," which were just leggings.

Cy has his own doozies these days. He learned how to use a bottle opener and one night came into the kitchen and asked for the "beer opener."

"Cy, maybe it's better if we just call it your opener."

"Can I please have my opener?" He opened the bottle and took a drink. "Can I now have the closing opener (zuöffner)?" He meant a little plug we put in his bottles because he only drinks about a quarter cup of anything at one sitting.

Then two weekends ago they were in the car. "Can I have an Internet?" We asked him what he meant and he just kept saying he needed an Internet. Fair enough, we thought, early adopter -- only we didn't know how to give him an Internet so we just kept asking what exactly he wanted. "One of those things that shows where we live." He meant a map because he always hears us saying, "I'll print out some directions from the Internet."