Category: Thoughts

Story Time

LiLi has begun to tell stories. Ok, in all honesty, she says a few words or phrases that have to do with something we have seen or done and I fill in the rest. They are predominately about the zoo and we have to repeat them about 40 times a day.
Her favorite story is how we saw the penguins get fed one morning at the zoo. She say “Auh, Auh”(our sound for a penguin) and then makes a throwing motion and then says Cormorant which is the bird with the penguins who had the fish thrown to him. A few times she throws in the word fish, too.
Then there is the story from florida which consists of “Snap” “birds” “fishies.” The alligator in florida had the birds hanging out around him and then he would move around and the birds would get some fishes and eat them.
“Elephant” and “Shower” tells you about the elephant at the zoo who we saw being washed the other day. It was very hard to get LiLi to leave the elephant enclosure that day.
We also like to review the Jungle book either talking about the fight between Balou and the tiger and then Balou being hurt and Moguli crying and then Balou getting better. She is very earnest while she is telling this story.

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LiLi in the rain with her Elmo umbrella

Fashion Sense

LiLi has quite a fashion sense. She gets to pick out her hat every morning and it almost never matches her outfit. I am not exactly sure why she believes that she need a hat every day but she does. Unfortunately, I do not often have the camera within easy access to catch these outfits. However, let me just say that they usually involve a pink coat and a red hat. One of my favorite outfits recently was her pink and brown raincoat with her red strawberry hat(one of her favorites) and then she carried the red(a totally different color red than the strawberry hat) and yellow umbrella. She looked fabulous.

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One of our favorite red hats. I think she likes the jewel and the braid down the back.

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Practicing with our new umbrella

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Sharing her umbrella with Maggie

Building a house

Sara Lee was in town for over a month and unfortunately, she had to go home and we do miss her. Here are some pictures of LiLi and Sara Lee building a house out of a box. I had just put the box over on its side and LiLi ignored it but Sara Lee arrived and within a few minutes they were hard at work making a house. LiLi decorated the inside with stickers and then put those on Sara Lee’s face on a different day.

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