We'll see if your mama can keep up with one more thing.
I'll call it "looking for ducks," since that seems to be a theme for you these days, my sweet.
Today your Yaya and I were hanging out with you after the bath in her nicely air conditioned room, and you were running about in your "naked baby!" self. trying on the bracelets and necklaces. "Naked baby needs a necklace?" Your first complete sentence! Man, you are such a girly girl, who wouldda thunk it??
The other day we were rocking in the rocking chair during a big thunderstorm singing, "My Favorite Things"--I asked you what your favorite things were you said "books, and lighting" my tough little literary cookie.
You love "On my pond," when daddy plays it on the computer. and "C is for Cookie," of course. We are all astonished with your amazing vocabulary, with how well you communicate, how much you remember!! You remembered that the shoes we bought a few months ago (and have tucked away for fall) were "ecco," how did you remember that?? To say nothing of your memory when it comes to your books, being able to recite some of the songs you sing, it's amazing. "chicksandducksandgeesebetterscurrywhenItakeyououtinthesurrey?" I love that you love that song, because it brings back lots of memories for mama being in Oklahoma with Emily and April. Those were crazy days for us, my dear. But fun!
I wish we could find you more friends. I'm sorry I haven't been better about that. I know you're a social creature and will benefit so much from having other children to play with, I just haven't been able to make that happen yet. I know it will, and that you will enjoy spending time with "the girls" in Seattle, and your cousins at Lummi, it is one reason I wish we were in the Northwest still. All your family that is still strangers to you. It is so lucky we have Yaya, but there's so much richness of family there for you...we'll get there. Perhaps the neighborhood play dates will allow us to get more connected with this neighborhood--your mama would like that. Very much. Be patient, my sweet. There are many wonderful friends in your future, of that I am sure. (man, I sound just like Yaya!)
Not sure yet if this blog is for me, or for you, but I'm liking it all the same...
love,
your mama.
