Video Updates

Hi everyone,

We've had a busy few weeks, so I just have some quick updates. I finished Mara's hat yesterday! It fits and she likes it - hurray!

She's coming along so quickly with speaking! Yesterday, she said "Miss Nicole" to her teacher instead of "Cole!" We were so surprised! AND she got on all fours last night, moved around like a frog and was saying "Ribbit! Ribbit!" which they apparently do in gym class.

She knows when Zack gets out to put gasoline in the car and says "Gas!" and when we get in the car she says "phone", which I only recently connected to me whipping out my phone to calculate milage... something she observed I guess. Zack put wiper fluid in the car yesterday and she thought he was gassing up the car.

She's using some complete sentences now. "Maya do it." or "Read this book." She'll randomly tell us "I wutch you" (I love you) and brings up friends in conversation randomly. This morning, it was Ian and Derica and Maggie and then "I wutch you, Ian." She also thinks Daddy does everything better than Mommy. Either that, or she thinks he needs more practice at it. Whether it's loading her in the carseat and I'm there ready to do it... she stops and proclaims "Daddy do it." Or I go to wash her hands and she halts and says "Daddy do it. Daddy wash hands." Sigh.

She goes on the slide forward facing now. AND we're doing well with counting. See both here:

I think she had a bad dream last night because she woke up screaming my name and I went to pick her up and give her a lost binky and she threw it in the bed (saying "night time binky", which is what is has become) and just clung to me for a few minutes. I asked if she had a bad dream and she said "Bad deem." :(

Finally, here is something to warm your hearts.

My little lady

Mara is turning into such a distinguished little lady. See?

Okay, forget the fact that she doesn't have on any pants.

She asked to have her picture taken with "her" necklace.

Meaning she found Mommy's real pearls and wanted to put them on, so Mommy dug out some fake pearls strung on elastic for Mara to play with.

Didn't make a difference to her.

She could probably use a hair stylist at this point, though.

She kept saying "CHEESE" and giving me lots of smiles.

Such a cutie. And still saying lots of words.

She repeated me saying "I locked the doors."

She remembers words we haven't used in months, such as "temperature" to go along with the thermometer and her motioning to her armpit.

She has no problems telling you that you have gas. "GAS!" "Skuze me, Mommy." Whether it's her... or me.

She is getting really good at saying her abcs. I have been trying to capture it on video. I hope to post something soon. :)

I love you

 Someone told Daddy "I love you!" tonight without being prompted.

 Melt my heart.

And she says "thank you" for almost anything we give her without prompting.

And she takes her napkin and puts it in her lap.

More polite than some people I've met before!

The scar on her face is from a tube of butt paste - the corner caught her in the cheek when she was rolling on the ground.

Elmo