Conversation while driving the kids home from preschool:
MIRANDA: Mommy, this my froggy? (holding a stuffed frog)
ELEANOR: Yeah, Miranda’s froggy!
MIRANDA: No! You is not Mommy! Her is Mommy! (pointing at me)
ME: Yes, that’s your frog Miranda.
They wouldn’t have this problem if Chinese were their first language. (No conjugating verbs, one pronoun for everyone) English is hard.