Words

In the days after the last post, it seemed that we'd missed half her vocabulary when we listed out the words she uses.  Plus she's putting words together more and more all the time.  "Oh no.  Made a mess!"  has been her longest combination I think.  She's also reasoning things out--she knows Mimi went to Washington so when Grandma was telling her that George Washington is on her dollar, she started talking about Mimi.  And when momma was talking about messes today, she started saying diaper and took one to Grandma cause we talk about her messing in her diaper (she hadn't at that point though). 

I decided this weekend that I want one of our Christmas traditions to be to buy her a new ornament each year that represents something she's interested in.  I found a nice wooden Mickey Mouse ornament for this year.  I'll either get a special box for her ornaments where I can also keep a list of each year's ornament or I'll see if I can date it somewhere discretely.  I'm thinking the box and list is a better idea than writing on the ornaments.

P had a lecture in St. Louis Friday afternoon and Saturday morning so Isla and I went to St. Louis with him.  We hung out at the hotel Friday afternoon, met Aunt Khaki for dinner, and Saturday morning did a little shopping.  Isla was chatting up everyone--waiters, bellhops, the check-in clerks at our hotel.... I especially liked it when we were sitting on a bench near the hotel where P's lecture was and Isla was playing an animal puzzle game on my phone.  Some man walked up on the way into his gym and Isla started babbling something--he stopped, understood "animals,"  looked at what she was showing him on the phone and talked to her a second about animals.  When P was done we went to the zoo.  She loves all the animals, but the monkeys, apes, and zebras were especially favored yesterday.  Two gorillas and an orangutan sat right up against the glass in front of us and the hippos kept swimming right in front of us too.  We went to Build a Bear and she picked out a giraffe and made him.  We got out of the store and gave it to her and she says "monkey?"  Guess there are reasons you don't leave big decisions up to toddlers. 

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Elmo are still favorites too.  I think she'd prefer if all the other characters on Sesame Street were fired so it could be all Elmo all the time.  Poor Big Bird. 

More later-


We took our 22 month pictures with Winston today.  I think we'll have some good ones--I'll try to download my pictures and upload them here once Baby Girl goes to bed.