I am writing as we hurtle down the highway towards Chicago for a visit with grandparents and friends. I meant to write a post in July detailing the explosion of Ellie's vocabulary and her many adventures -- but those adventures kept us busy. It can be difficult to keep the months straight -- so pardon any updates that I already noted in June!
The summer is flying by more quickly than ever before. Ellie has been very chatty and has started to pull simple sentences together. At the zoo, she said, "me meet panda," and meet the pandas she did! She is very fond of explanatory sentences: "This is Dada, this is mama, this is Baa, this is Zozo."
She understands what is happening around her so well. She also knows how to ask for what she needs -- "help," "pouch," "milk" and Elmo seems to be the catchword for screen time. She sure loves Elmo, but even Elmo videos have not made her enthusiastic about tooth brushing!
She can be very friendly! She particularly likes to say hi and bye, even (especially) to inanimate objects -- very often "hi trash" and "bye trash."
Her sense of family identity is very strong. She looked to call roll, saying "mama" and "Dada" over and over. She can say her name, though the "L" sound is not clear, but she more often refers to herself as "booboo."
We had a wonderful visit from Ellie's grandparents in July while Nitin was in Italy. She had a blast showing them the parks in our neighborhood and all of her toys and books -- many of which Grandma and Grandpa picked out!
The toddler age is a busy one, and boundary testing and building frustration tolerance are real things. But the gifts of this age are many -- she is frequently "in on the joke" in a book or in conversation, and her laugh is a beautiful sound. She likes to sing along to songs, and we are surprised my how many of the words she knows in her favorites. She also learned to hum, which is a pretty cute phenomenon.
She has a very, very sweet side -- we cuddled in the hotel bed last night when she woke up scared, and she was tired, but so snuggly. She gave me a few sly smiles. I wish I had a photo of those moments.
She is also ever the adventurer, enjoying the zoo, sprawling indoor play spaces, and spray grounds and playgrounds all over! Her next adventure is preschool, beginning in just a short month! I am both excited about nervous, but I know that once she settles in, she will have a blast and her facile mind will be given so many new opportunities to grow! We sure love this sweet kiddo.
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