Parrot

Fiona's grandmother tells me children aren't actually parrots. This was in response to my informing her that Fiona often says "oh, shee", and we don't know why; I swear we don't swear around her (at least we try not to), and I don't think we've used the phrase, but it sounds for all the world like she's saying something that would warrant an FCC fine if we put her on network TV.

The cuter phrase she's picked up lately is "Nanook." For months, everytime we bundle her up in her winter coat we take one look at a baby who's lost all flexibility beneath her bulky parka and we exclaim "It's Nanook of New York!" (Naturally, we're also trying to make sure she's well schooled in cinema, specifically on the early history of the American documentary). On Sunday we pulled out the parka and Fiona shouted out "Nanook!"

Unfortunately for us, Fiona's also discovered another new word that starts with "N". It's two letters long and we expect to hear an awful lot of it over the next few months, years and decades. You get one guess what that word is.