I Know a Rhino

Today, while reading I Know a Rhino, Eliana was cracking me up with her comments on all the pages. My favorites:

On the ape page, which is the page after the pig in the dirt - "Look! E changed er shirt! E changed er shirt and er pants and er shoes! Dey got messy an now dey're clean!"

On the dragon page -
Elly: "Look! Da girl has a steffoscope. Just like Elly's! Where's Elly's steffoscope?"
Me: "I don't know. Does Daddy have it?"
Elly: "No. Steffoscope went bye-bye in Grandma's car." (pouts) "Awwww. Poor Grandma's car."

On the giraffe page -
"Look! E made it work!" (pointing to the girl blowing a bubble)

Giggles

Kes can giggle! The first time I heard it she was in the bouncy seat facing the mirror and Elly started goofing off in the mirror too. Kes started giggling and Elly fed off it and got goofier. This went on for five minutes! Big belly laughs, too. It was marvelous.

Who's that in the mirror?

Today I set up the bouncy seat to face my closet door mirror while I got some things done in my room. Kes looked all around at everything she could see in it, looked at herself and cooed at that baby in the mirror. Then I came over and talked to her in the mirror, but she kept looking at the real me too. So I picked her up and looked at both of us in the mirror. She looked at herself, looked at me, looked at herself, looked at me... and then the lower lip went into full pout and she wailed! I turned away from the mirror and she stopped crying. I think she was jealous to see her mommy holding a baby!

M

Scott wrote an M on Eliana's magnadoodle.

Elly: "M! It looks like a mountain!"
Scott: "Yeah! And mountain starts with M. Mmmmmountain!"
Elly: "Mmmmmmegan!"

Kesenia's 2 month checkup

Kes's 2 month visit was today - she's 13 lbs 10 oz and 23.25 inches. The dr gave us a referral to a craniofacial clinic but said sometimes babies who are smooshed in the womb (and Kes was *definitely* smooshed!) have one side of their face grow faster than the other so it's probable that she'll grow out of it on her own. Yay! - hoping this is the case, looking forward to seeing the specialist to make sure. She got her DTaP shot and didn't cry and has had no reaction to the shot - Elly was always cranky and a little feverish after getting all five of the vaxes at once. We go back in a month for HiB/IPV - hopefully that goes just as well.

Soft

Today Eliana was rubbing Kes on the head and she says, "Kes is soft." Well, we all know where soft things belong - on the nose! Elly leaned over and put her nose right on Kes's head. "Mmmm, soft on the nose."

In other news, Eliana wrote her first letter today! She took her magnadoodle and wrote "n" - I'm so surprised that her first written letter was lower-case, since she knows her upper-case letters so well, and not so much the lower-case ones.

First blood

At the park with Grandpa today, Eliana was rocking on the fire engine and donked herself in the face with the steering wheel. It was very traumatic - she cried, said, "I don't like the park," and had to come back to my parents' house to get her blankie (or should I say "blank") to put it on her nose to make her feel better. But even once they were home, blankie had to wait, b/c she had a bit of blood coming from her mouth - first time she's bled. I looked around and it was coming from the upper frenulum, and her gums look bruised too. I'm just glad she didn't knock out a tooth - I did on my second birthday and it hurt so bad I still remember it happening!