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		<title>All English, all the time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My youngest at 2 and a half years old doesn&#8217;t speak any Estonian despite my best efforts.  I can&#8217;t tell you how difficult it is to keep going, me speaking in Estonian and A only speaking in English.  She clearly understands everything I am saying in Estonian which is something.  Where I find it difficult [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatMsg.com/2009/09/11/all-english-all-the-time/</link>
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		<title>Update after nearly 7 months</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all, my apologies to all the readers, especially those who have made comments, that this blog has gotten so out of date.  I intend to remedy that here and now!
Not that apologies make up for the absence, but basically I started a home-based business in March that together with my 2 and 3 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatMsg.com/2009/08/25/update-after-nearly-7-months/</link>
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		<title>The Estonian is suffering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite my best efforts of consistency in only speaking Estonian with my children, translating every picture book I read into Estonian on the fly, or reading Estonian stories, and playing many fun Estonian DVDs, I would estimate that my 3 year old speaks 70% English and 30% Estonian with me.  The 23 month old speaks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatMsg.com/2009/01/16/the-estonian-is-suffering/</link>
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		<title>Nothing is simple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine is involved in a themed blogging even, topic &#8220;Simplicity&#8221; and it just so happens that it fit so well with what I was already considering writing here anyhow.  Here&#8217;s my story&#8230;
On Saturday, My sister, Daddy and I took K and A snowshoeing.  We have always been very active participants in winter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatMsg.com/2009/01/04/nothing-is-simple/</link>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Memorable Moments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is my birthday and it was marked with my 3 year old coming into the bathroom while I showered to present me with a 5-balloon bouquet followed by her 22 month old sister dragging a single half deflated Hallmark Store balloon from a week ago and holding out the string to me in her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatMsg.com/2008/12/06/todays-memorable-moments/</link>
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		<title>Pronoun Trouble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, we have run into an interesting little language situation that I can&#8217;t help but think has something to do with my kids speaking two languages.  But maybe I&#8217;m just sensitive to that and it might happen anyway.  Personal and possessive gender specific pronouns are proving to be an amusing stumbling block for my 3-year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatMsg.com/2008/11/21/pronoun-trouble/</link>
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		<title>She Speaks Two Languages!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It finally happened, and very quickly after the &#8220;double&#8221; talk, A made a distinction between English and Estonian on Monday, Nov. 3rd!  A and I were in the kitchen talking about her stuffed &#8220;karu&#8221; (bear) for about 10 minutes.  The little pink stuffy was her friend of the moment and she kept showing it to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatMsg.com/2008/11/06/she-speaks-two-languages/</link>
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		<title>It Finally Happened, She&#8217;s Speaking in Doubles!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today for the first time I noticed my youngest, A, at 20 months old, speaking in doubles.  By this, I mean she is grasping that there are two words for everything.  One in English and one in Estonian.  K did the same thing when she started speaking!  Today A was climbing on a pillow and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatMsg.com/2008/10/31/it-finally-happened-shes-speaking-in-doubles/</link>
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		<title>The Most Trying Parenting Moments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, my oldest daughter, at 3 years and 2 weeks is finally potty trained.  After 3 months of pull-ups, frustration, tears, Reese&#8217;s Pieces, stickers and messes we got there and it wasn&#8217;t at all what I expected.  Here&#8217;s our journey.  At 2 years of age, she was using the potty fairly consistently- for a month.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatMsg.com/2008/10/30/the-most-trying-parenting-moments/</link>
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		<title>Doesn&#8217;t know what words are</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday on the way home from school, K points out a little girl Gloria walking home from school with her uncle and tells me, &#8220;Gloria doesn&#8217;t know what words are.&#8221;  It took me a couple seconds before I understood what she was telling me.  K was telling me that Gloria doesn&#8217;t speak English very well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whatMsg.com/2008/10/21/doesnt-know-what-words-are/</link>
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