Ela is at an age where she says something funny about every thiry seconds. I almost always forget what she's said before I have a chance to write it down or share with the world. For example, today she visited me in the bathroom while I was getting dressed to inform me that I was the big Mommy, and she was the little Ela. I have no idea where this came from, but I was amused.
Ela loves Dora the Explorer. Since we have netflix, I let her choose which episode she watches, and while she hasn't picked up any Spanish, she has learned a few things about the world from them. One of her favorite episodes is a story called "Catch the Babies." In this episode, one of Dora's challenges is to find three apples to feed a horse so the horse will move and let Dora pass. About every morning for breakfast she eats an apple. The apple always leads to the same train of thought for her. She says "Ela wants apple. Horses eat apples. Ela wants to watch Dora catch the babies." I love listening to how her mind works.
While Ela hasn't picked up any Spanish, she is learning a little Japanese at the moment. One of her current favorite books is one that my students in Japan gave me when she was born. It is about animal sounds and which animals make which sounds. I read the Japanese to her and then translate. She's reached a point now where she repeats the animal names back to me, and she won't tell me the animals in English, even though I know she knows them. She seems determined to figure out the strange words. It's interesting.
Lily is at a disadvantage when it comes to cute stories since she's still learning the basics. She's still precious (as evidenced by the picture) there's just less to tell. She's recently learned to sit up on her own, and so she spends a lot of time sitting in places playing with whatever toy I can convince Ela to let her hold onto. She's teething, so everything goes in her mouth. Lately, she's been making some great smacking sounds, playing with the new teeth.
Lily is also a little Daddy's girl. She lights up whenever she sees him. One of my favorite things about her is that she can smile and cry at the same time, and often does. It's like she doesn't know how to stop smiling for long enough to tell us she's sad. It's funny.
So we're enjoying our happy girls and taking a little rest this week after the busy month of October. More stories to follow.
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