My Cosmopolitan City Baby

Maya seems to have developed some special expertise in some areas from being a Cairo city baby. First of all, she is an expert in all forms of public transport. She can identify buses, cars, boats, planes and taxis. As we are in Egypt, she can also identify horses and donkeys we see on the road as well.

When we see a horse on the road she says: "Neigh, neigh". When we see a donkey she says: "Donkey dey, dey." Naturally, she seems to think that if a horse says "neigh" then a donkey must say "dey".

Now, on her Cairo food preferences. She used to love to eat stuffed grape leaves, but they are now totally passe. Her new fave Cairo food is Hummus, preferably topped with chicken shawerma. Yumm! She also likes mangoes, and lucky for her she can get them in Cairo.

She also has learned a few Arabic words. I don't know how she learned them exactly, as no one is speaking to her in Arabic on a regular basis. But she must have picked up the words from her music and storytelling classes. She says "La", meaning "no". She says "yalla" for "let's go". And she says "bas" for "that's all" and "miyah" for water. She also says "Eh da?" for "what's that?" It is super adorable.

Here is a picture of Maya riding her own horse in our house. She loves this horse. She likes to take her lotion and rub it on his head. She also likes to feed it "milk" and "apples". It is a very lucky horsey.