Siri Loves Elmo

Siri picked up one of of her juice boxes a couple of days ago and freaked out saying, "Elmo, Elmo, Elmo!" Well, it was actually more like "EMO, EMO, EMO!" We don't have any Elmo things at our house, only a Grover book that she loves. There is a picture of Elmo on the back of her Grover book and just yesterday she also picked up her book and pointed to Elmo and exclaimed "Emo!" She must be reading Elmo books at daycare or maybe she watches Sesame Street there. We don't have a television so she hasn't watched any t.v. with us. It is pretty cute. She is also getting really good at saying "Bye." She also makes tons of animal sounds- she'll make cow, monkey, and sheep noises. She loves puckering her lips and saying "moooo."

We just moved into our new house last weekend. We love it. We sleep so much better without the stray dogs running around and Siri loves the big yard. We are also right on the ocean so she can see the boats and the planes and goes crazy over both. She loves airplanes and will wave goodbye as they fly away.

She has also been going to the daycare for the past few months. She loves it there. We drop her off and she runs to play with the kids. There are only about 8 other kids. They are all Samoan kids with the exception of our friend Noa who is the same age as Siri. She is learning a lot of Samoan words too. She knows how to say "no," "bring it," "stop it," and "you better knock it off." Basically she knows all of the words you tell to kids or kids tell eachother when they are being obnoxious. Those are the words that I recognize her saying, but she might know more too but she just says them and I take it for babel because I don't know very much Samoan yet. All of the kids speak Samoan all of the time, but the caregivers speak in English most of the day and read English books. She is learning songs too and she loves to dance when music comes on. She'll do the hula for you if you ask, and she'll show you her 'twinkles' when you read Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. She's a really fun girl and all the kids seem to love her. They sing her a song when she leaves and she just smiles like crazy.