Robin/Joan MacNeil wrote:

> And why is that, Jo-Anne??
>
> Joan
>

>  Jo-Anne, who knows *why*
> her little one calls it "do do," although everyone just thinks it means
> she's sleepy.

In French, there is a little lullaby in which "lo-lo" is used for milk. (A
lot of French-speaking people think it might be "l'eau" or water, but in the
second-language book I have, and according to the members of my extended
family from France, it is clear that it is milk, and I like to think it was
*not* in a bottle when the lullaby was written. On the other hand, "do-do"
(from dormir) means a nap. It was a simple slide from "mama lo-lo do-do" to
the best part of naps, although the idea of "that's enough nursing now,
let's go to sleep" is going to be pretty awkward to present. "The lo-los
want to go do-do" is just not going to work, and I am already at the point
that I am telling her how old she is several times a night. "You are two and
a half now, you're supposed to sleep more than an hour at a time."  Oh!
Maybe that was the confusion, and she thought she was supposed to do the
other kind of "do-do" more than an hour at a time! Brainwave!
Jo-Anne LOL (which is almost like lo-lo, and perhaps both have the same
origin as lolling around)

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