I love dosas. Dosa is a south Indian dish. A better version of a crepe (shots fired) or a ridiculously thin pancake. Sempi (5yo) is also a huge fan. I’m making dosas for his breakfast and he requested that I make the dosas into shapes for him. He requested a police car. I was happy to oblige. Sempi: What is this? Me: A police car. Sempi: It looks like a spaceship....

I believe that the language you speak influences the way you think. I don’t have any kind of proof other than some anecdotal evidence. Recently I started noticing this in the field of computer languages as well. I consider Python to be my dominant language. I have a coworker (let’s call him Aaron, because that’s his name) who likes to bait me by pointing out certain lack of features in Python and how Ruby gets it right....

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Vian is picking up new words. His new addition is “Yeah”. It is pronounced with an emphatic “EYAH!” (imagine a Karate yell). I like asking him random questions that are at the edge of his understanding and watch him say “Yeah!”. But sometimes he uses his “Yeah!” with such precision it catches us off guard. Such as last night when we were getting him ready for bed. Yoshi: Vian, would you like to hold a toy?...

Vian has been picking up a few words courtesy of Sempi. The words he has picked up so far are the ones that Sempi uses with forceful emotion. STOP: Whenever Vian tries to take Sempi’s toys, Sempi yells “STOOOOP” with conviction and distress. So that’s the first word that Vian decided to pick up. Now he uses it with us generously. He can’t quite pronounce the sound “ssss” so his STOP sounds like “TOP”....