- Word Books....You know, the kind with a picture and a word underneath. It's great for her age because she doesn't sit still long enough for a story, but she can look at a few pictures and we talk about it and she's had a mini vocabulary lesson each time. These are her absolute favorite types of books. We look at them time after time after time each day. She's not very much into toys at the moment. All she wants to do is bring Mommy books to look at. I'm loving that she's so into them--the teacher in me, I guess--but gosh, do I get tired of the same books! I went to the library to get some new ones for her last week just because I had had it with the ones she was bringing me every other minute.
- Animals....yes, animals (I think it's a cruel joke, since both her daddy and I are pretty anti-animal people!) Well, in all of these word books there are a couple of pages with animals. Those are the pages she especially likes to look at. She turns and turns the pages until she gets to the animal ones and then sits and looks and looks at them forever. She goes especially crazy over the kitty cats and doggies ("ki-ki" and "da-da"). And to see them in real life? Oh my....she goes berserk! At my brother's house yesterday she was constantly chasing their two cats around the yard. Poor cats. I hope they haven't been completely traumatized, but I guess maybe they're used to it with three kids of their own to run away from. She now makes many animal noises too. They're not really that close to the actual animal sound, but she's consistent! Her cow noise sounds more like you're buzzing your lips together to play the trumpet (I used to play trumpet, so I know the sound well) rather than a mooooooo. If I make an animal sound she can point to the right picture in the books most of the time.
- Dancing...also in one of the word books is a page where there are kids dancing. She loves turning to that page and just dancing while sitting on my lap or on the floor. And everytime a commercial comes on TV with music, she dances. Upstairs in the guest room (which has sort of become her upstairs play room) there is a CD player with her favorite CDs. She goes in there several times a day, points to the CD player, and starts dancing, letting me know she wants to hear the music. As soon as she hears the music, she starts to boogie. You can just say the word dance to her and she'll start dancing. It won't be long before she'll be taking tap dancing lessons or something....
- There are more, but I'd run out of energy if I wrote about ALL of them! This girl is obsessed, I tell you!!! But they're all so endearing and make her quite an individual!
I mentioned my brother's house.... Yesterday we went up to his house (an hour north of us) so my husband could help them put in a new countertop. My parents were there, too, so my dad could help. The three guys worked so hard all day and were exhausted and sore. My mom and I kept my little one out of the way (her three cousins weren't there, though, because they had gone to their other grandparents' house so they would be out of the way!). Anyway, my brother lives only a few miles from my college alma mater, since he teaches there, so my mom and I loaded up my sweet girl and went there for a little while. I hadn't been there in several years. It's such a special place full of lots of memories. We walked up and down "Middle Path," the mile-long stone path down the middle of campus. I saw my old dorms and reminisced with my mom. I heard the bells ring on the hour from the church's bell tower. I used to hear those all the time! It was fun to go back down memory lane.
That's about all of the news from our house. Just trying to stay cool (our a/c broke last week--the hottest week of the summer--thankfully they were able to come out the next day and fix it, so we got by with only one difficult day/night). Thank goodness the last few days haven't been as humid. Let's hope this week it continues.
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