Leyla

I have a new idea. I am going to buy a cute journal/notebook and keep a journal for Leyla to give to her when she is older. Maybe I'll give it to her when she turns 10 or something, or 16, or on her wedding day (yikes!)...I am going to mark the month, day, year, and her age for each entry and just write whatever cute thing she is doing at that time. It won't be a daily or even a monthly journal, just a bunch of random entries throughout her childhood. I want to remember and be able to tell her those little things like how she used to say "bopillo" instead of "shoes" or how yesterday she picked up her sandwich and told me, "Look mommy, triangle!" I think she will appreciate being able to look back and remember the cute little things she did. I know I always asked my mom, and she always told us the silly words we made up when we couldn't pronounce the correct word.

Here are some other cute things she has been doing lately that I will include in the journal:

- She is very headstrong and a lot like a little tornado. She has a little attitude. When I tell her not to do something several times and she keeps doing it, she ends up looking at me and putting her little finger to her mouth and saying "Shhhh!"

-The other day I was talking to a neighbor and it was late. We said goodbye, but kept talking. Leyla looked at the lady and said "Shhh! Bye-bye!"

-She goes outside and tells Lizzy, our dog, "Vaya por aya!" (not sure how to spell that; in English she's basically telling the dog to get away from her/go away)

-She doesn't say "thank you" anymore or just "gracias" but instead at EVERYTHING she says, "Ahh, gracias!"

-When I try to dress her, she tells me that every single piece of clothing is "susio" or "dirty" to avoid getting dressed.

-She runs outside to play without her shoes constantly; I bring them to her and she says "ahh, gracias!" and then 10 minutes later I find her without shoes again. When I ask her where they are, she says "noo, susio!" or "nooo, pee pee!" and refuses to put them on again.

-She loves her "Toddler Tunes" DVD and sings along to the Wheels on the Bus (her favorite) and the ABC Song (except she says it "A-B-Key Leyla")

-Her favorite book is her new Llama Llama book where llama llama is sick. She calls it "Nama Nama" and has several pages memorized. She puts her hand to her head and says "Hot!" and her finger in her mouth with her tongue out and says "Ucky!" (the medicine tastes yucky).

New words she has learned in just the past few weeks: (she is picking up everything really fast now)
-lemony = lemonade
-bucket
-keen = clean
-angle, ircle, ar = triangle, circle, star
-Big Bird, Ernie, Cookie Ta-to (Cookie Monster)
-Manca = Marcos's sister Blanca
-hungry
-cheese
-urky = turkey
-car (before she always said "beep beep")

That's all I can think of for now!