Monkey See, Monkey Do

Firefighter Dylan keeps us safe around the house.

Dylan loves to imitate and do everything everyone else does. The other night I was sitting on the couch with my bowl of grapes and Dylan came barreling over with his bowl and scrambled up on the couch and sat right at the back like me. Then he looked at my legs and saw they were resting on the table (yes, the same table I once banned from feet touching it). SO, he scooted up and well, you can see the result. I thought this was hilarious.

This photo just amuses me. Good thing the cupboard is nailed to the wall...Sophia never ceases to surprise me. She has a really good memory and remembers the littlest things. I will tell her something before her nap and that will be the first thing she says to me after the nap. Today, for instance, I told her I hope she has a good nap because she is sick and sleep is good for helping you to get better. She woke and first thing she said to me was "I'm not sick anymore, mama!" Even I had to think what she was talking about at first and then remembered our conversation. She is quite good at finding Lamby - in obscure places that she was playing with him last (thank goodness for that!)

New words are coming fast with Dylan. Most are just intonations and mimicking what I say and then never repeated, but tonight he said quite clearly " garlic" as I pointed to it in a book. Ahhh, what a good little Ukrainian!