QUOTE(Thomas-n-Elena @ Jun 7 2007, 09:17 PM)

Yesterday I was told that Elena wanted to help so she "Used the sweeper on the walk side"

Sounds a lot like my "wife house"

she's always using the sweeper too.
I've gotta give these girls a lot of credit. They learn words or phrases, even if not entirely correct, but they learn them just the same, straight from the dictionary or phrasebook. To be able to use (in the right context) something you've only read once, that's pretty good! There's no way I could do that in Russian. My wife tells me a word or phrase and I have to have her repeat it several times, then use it a few more times, then the next time I want to use it, I have to have her tell me all over again. I guess that's because of my "syndrome downs."
The real reason she says I have syndrome downs is because I get in that mode where I'm chasing her around the house (as in, "chasing her around the house") and she says my brain is no longer in my head... but somewhere else. Then she makes this face and voice and starts to "chase me around". Ah..... imitation is the highest form of flattery!