So yesterday I made a pretty outrageous cultural mistake with my newest daughter. Fedlaine was up to mischief...so to tease her I pointed to my eye and tried to tell her in Creole that I was going to keep my eye on her. So in Creole, it translated I am putting my eye on you. Then I pointed at my eyes with the first two fingers on my hand and then pointed at her eyes with those same two fingers and I kept saying, "I am watching you. I see you."
Well. She began screaming in utter terror and hid behind Anna, yelling, "Zombie! Zombie!" We finally calmed her down after several minutes.
At dinner when I told Pierre what I did, his eyes got big and he said that Fedlaine would have heard that zombies will pluck out their eyes and put them on/in your eyes. Then, apparently, zombies also do the "I am watching you. I see you"- thing that I did with my two fingers, pointing at my eyes and then her eyes.
Oops. I only had to discipline one of my boys once for trying to scare Fedlaine again with zombie signs yesterday...they have been warned and threatened...hopefully they will obey.
Well. She began screaming in utter terror and hid behind Anna, yelling, "Zombie! Zombie!" We finally calmed her down after several minutes.
At dinner when I told Pierre what I did, his eyes got big and he said that Fedlaine would have heard that zombies will pluck out their eyes and put them on/in your eyes. Then, apparently, zombies also do the "I am watching you. I see you"- thing that I did with my two fingers, pointing at my eyes and then her eyes.
Oops. I only had to discipline one of my boys once for trying to scare Fedlaine again with zombie signs yesterday...they have been warned and threatened...hopefully they will obey.