Helium Balloons, Adjectives and Noun Premodifiers

I was so close to wheezing today that I just had to blog about it even though this blog was never really meant as one to document such things.

Last week I was out with my favourite naughty girl whose name is Ern See.  She's Moo Dean's and Sulian's daughter for those who know them.  I can't remember how but we were walking around with a silver helium balloon and I was telling her -  

"Ern See, this is a helium balloon.  It's not ordinary air inside.  That's why it's flying!" 

 I felt pretty happy to be part of her education process.  She repeated the word 'helium' quite many times.  It's not everyday a 2 year old learns about helium properties anyway.

Today I went out with her again and this time she had a pink ballon affixed to a stick, one that could not float on its own.  So I decided to test her.

"Ern See, is this a helium ballon?"

She looked smilingly at me holding her pink balloon and said - 

"No."

I was elated and very quickly followed up with a "Well done!".

As soon as the words were out of my mouth, I heard a small voice from around my left knee saying -

"Uncle Randy, it is a pink balloon."

You just cannot beat the kids.