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scrawls

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6.7.09

twenty-one months

Your grandparents, M's parents, are here visiting, and you recognized them from Skype immediately. Every day since they have been here, immediately when you wake up or at least when the doorbell rings you shriek, MIMI! GRAMPA! and are very happy and excited. I think the bunch of you are having lots of fun, going to the park and playing with all the toys they brought (the magnetic dress-up princess doll is a big hit, and the puzzle with doors is completely a new idea) and you are reading each other books (you have to narrate the German ones and point out what is a tatu tatu) and showing off all your words. They say they believed us, that you had so many words, but it is a little hard to picture, not even two and completely uncountable. You made pretty good guesses at all the animals in the zoo (bison, okay, it is understandable that you might guess bear) and what one year olds can say ostrich? This one. And zebra and rhino and hippo and elephant and giraffe and bear and otter and penguin and duck and flamingo. So you all had fun at the zoo, too.

You are also remembering things that we say we will do later. Case in point: the morning of the zoo, we'd said the day previous that we were going, so you shrieked upon waking, MIMI! GRAMPA! ZOOOOOOOO! ANIMALS! and we said yes that's right, chill out and have some yogurt ... so there is no more "we can have that later" putting you off indefinitely.

You can sit all the way through Finding Nemo and when you are sitting on your grandparents' laps you can play with the magnetic dress-up princess doll for simply ages. There is a new toy that i got you, for once, a train where you push the conductor's hat and it scoots across the floor, and you can pretty accurately play catch with that with somebody on the far side of the room.

You like to try on barettes and sunglasses and hats and you have this one favorite dress, magenta with orange and blue and pink flowers, and every time you lay eyes on that dress you want to wear it. But sometimes you are sad if you can't also wear your Pingu shirt at the same time ... i think we are going to be some of those parents that let you dress yourself, with minor alterations, like you can choose your shoes if Mama chooses your pants, or you can wear that shirt if you wear it over this one. Clearly i am going to have to acquire you a ballerina tutu and some more dinosaur clothes to complete the look.

scrawled @ 13:01