shadows of echoes of memories of songs

Oh, sorry, I thought I'd included that in my longer post, but apparently not! It's snatching, as in "Imi had the teddy and Iris SMATCHED it away from her" (complete with mimed snatching action for extra emphasis). Since then I've heard her consciously correcting herself to "snatching" - she is learning almost too fast for me to write about it. :-}