Reinish

I've written before about how Reina speaks her own language.   As she gets older, her pronunciation is getting clearer and most of us can understand her.  There are still a few phrases that we have to ask her to repeat and as you can imagine, she's not very patient with us.  "MOMMY, I SAID, ARE BATS REAL?"  (I couldn't tell if she was asking if they were 'wild' or 'wool.')  But what makes me giggle the most is her full-steam-ahead approach to pronouncing new words even if she has no idea how to pronounce it.  Tonight at dinner, we were talking about animals that we see at the zoo and I told a story about a chimpanzee.  This chimpanzee (or maybe it was a gorilla?) would steal the keys from the zookeepers and let himself and the other primates out at night.   Naturally, both kids had about a thousand questions about said chimpanzee.  Reina couldn't remember what kind of animal it was so she blurted out, "What was that pandacheese doing?"  Close enough, kiddo.  Close enough.