Are You Going to Your Ami?

When Cristin was just learning to talk, Tim was going to business trips in Miami very frequently. We were all backpacking in Yosemite, and we were reaching the end of the trip, walking the long downhill after the falls.

We were all tired, but Cristin started to worry about post backpacking life. She heard Mom and Dad talking about Miami again…

She said “Dad, please don’t go to your Ami.”


Cristin applied logic to language from an early age. For example, she referred to place and position as “bebove” and “below.”


Update: November 2007. Sabrina called, Timmy had just asked her about her trip to “your Ami,” which in this case is a trip coming in January.