Her sister certainly gives her something to hear--Elena talks, hollers and yells all day! She has toned it down a little, I think, but her inside voice is not yet a reality! She is learning more and more words, and she is getting better at copying sounds. She still uses her old standbys, ba and da, for just about everything, but she has been trying more complicated words like "peaches" and "itsy bitsy spider" (which comes out "is bis" or "isee bs pie") She can say "cheese" and "eyes" really distinctly, along with "dada." Some words she says backwards, like "hot"--it comes out "tah." We are STILL working on getting her to say "mama!" She calls me "baba," sadly, though if I ask her to say "mama" she can sometimes say it.
Elena loves to play outside, and now that it's not so freezing cold, we've been going on adventures every day. We enjoy walking behind the tennis courts to pick up seed pods to throw in the pond, and going to get the mail. She loves to zoom around and around the circular mailbox hub jingling the keys. I love to take her inside the tennis courts--it's like a giant playpen! I can sit down and let her run around without having to worry, unlike anywhere else within Elena's walking distance of our apartment. She loves to run and throw her tennis balls around--and this last time she also enjoyed taking a break to read Mommy's magazine. :)
Andrew just started playing in the church basketball league last week, and he's doing great! At least, better than he expected, so we are feeling good about it. :) He's enjoying getting out there and exercising, and I'm enjoying watching--though I don't catch too much of the game with Elena and the other spectators to distract me. :)
We are enjoying the calm before the storm right now--pretty soon we are going to have to start packing and getting ready for the move. The only thing found amiss in the the house inspection (the water pipe to the house) was fixed and the inspection was finished to our satisfaction, and we are moving forward with our loan. We are hoping to close early March and move March 20. We are pretty excited about it! I took these pictures of the front and back of the house since I didn't think the ones in the listing were that great. Mine didn't turn out great either, haha, due to the the time of day, but you can get a better picture of the back yard especially. :)
From the back of the back yard
Looking right
Looking left
Right side yard
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2 comments:
Thanks for another great post. I just got off the phone from Nan and Pap and they LOVE getting your posts, especially since Elisa has her hands busy and is not sending them emails as regularly as before.
You're looking great! And props for having so much energy to go out every day with Elena every day! :)
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