Little things

I wanted to write a post to recap some of the cute little new things that Eva does, but I am a little bit at a loss as to where to start. Some of them are very sweet - like saying 'pease' every time she wants to be carried, but then it of couse also gets heart-breaking when she cries while saying it. S

he has also learned to poke and say 'poke' (thank you, Ice Age) and her uncle has taught her to say "Yodi". She would carry this little choking hazard multiple small parts yoda action figure all around the house in Northbrook and even tried to give him a bath in her glass of water. It was especially funny because instead of regular glasses we let her drink out of shot glasses or wine sampling glasses so that she doesn't spill a lot. So there we were looking for "yodi" and he was floating feet up in this tiny glass. I guess you just had to be there.

Also suddenly, and with no real push from us she started recognizing goats and saying 'meeee meee' - she also calls reindeer that and we have spent a good 20 minutes in the Christmas aisle of our BJs looking over and over and over again at, and I am listing them in the order that is now burned into my brain - a ceramic reindeer ('meeeee meeee') figurine, a Santa figurine with a horsie and a bear in his pocket, a rooster (whom we for simplicity sake call a chicken or 'chichi'), a santa plate with a bunny in his arms, a wooden rocking horse statuette which had a bear, christmas tree, a bunny, and a present among other things that Eva would point out. Then there were a chooo-choo, a Christmas scene (with little moving ice skaters) - mercifully somebody already broke one of the elves decorating a tree off of his feet, so at least I did not feel bad about her pulling on all of the little parts, and then there was a nativity scene where she would delightedly poke at the baby. Did I mention that all along she was sitting on my shoulders, reaching for all of those items on the shelf? In Eva's world this whole experience is called "snow" because on the opposite shelve there is a giant inflatable lawn ornament with snow and rotating figurines. In my experience this is called "sweat"...