Weasel Of Doom

I try to speak Russian to DemonChild, in hopes that he will be bilingual. I think DemonChild just hopes I will shut up and stick to the language everybody else is speaking, but he is so totally SOL on that one.

Anyhow, while most of the time DemonChild refuses to say anything in my native language, every once in a while he forgets about faking incomprehension, and says something in Russian. Here’s what he let slip so far:

• лёд — ice (when begging for some ice, and English is producing no results)
• утка — duck (playing with a bouncy ball with a duck on it)
• мячик — ball (for all things round and possibly bouncy)
• глаз — eye (said it only one, when he found a lego with eyes on it, and it took me 5 minutes to figure out what he meant, due to cognitive dissonance)
• нос — nose (usually when stabbing his finger into various parts of my face)
• волосы — hair (ditto, accompanied by gentle and not-so-gentle pulling)
• конец — the end (when a song or a cartoon come to an end)
• всё — all done (when he is all done eating something)
• мультик — cartoon (when begging for the idiot box to be turned on)
• яблоко — apple (did only once, while pointing at a photo of an apple)
• кто там — who is there (the one Russian phrase DemonChild says often and with great enjoyment, while knocking on everything in sight, be it animate or inanimate, with great enthusiasm)
• папа — daddy (when BelovedSpouse comes into his room in the morning or gets home at night)
• раз, два, три — one, two, three (usually followed by jumping off something)
• he can also count to twelve fairly reliably, if the spirit moves him