My Funny Girl

I can't believe how quickly October is going by! It seems like it just began a week ago, and now it will be finished in a week! I don't feel that I have been particularly busy recently, just that the days and weeks are flying by. They say time flies when you are having fun, though, and Sarah is SO much fun these days, and the weather has been beautiful here as the rainy season seems to finally have had its last hurrah, so maybe that is why time seems to be going so fast these days!


One of the ways Sarah is super fun these days is she is moving into that wonderful toddler phase of saying funny things. Some of my friends have slightly older toddlers, 2 and 3 year olds, who say HILARIOUS things, and Sarah is not quite there yet. But the things that come out of her mouth these days are adorable, at least we think so. I thought I would intersperse these stories with pics of Sarah brushing her teeth in her jammies, because brushing her teeth is one of favorite activities and I know her pink-footie-jammie days are numbered, which breaks my heart!!!


Sarah is beginning to say little phrases, which is so fun! One of Sarah's favorite animals is the zebra, and she can always recognize a picture of a zebra in any of her books because of the stripes. Recently, though, she has begun applying her knowledge of zebras to other areas of life--like when she wears a striped dress, it is her "zebra dress." I wore a striped shirt the other day and she patted me on the stomach and said, "Oh! Zebra! Cute!"


She is very into saying "Bye!" to things these days. Today we were walking up the stairs to our apartment, coming home from lunch, and she said bye to everything we passed: "Bye keys!" (after David used the keys to open the door to the stairwell), "Bye door!" (as we passed the neighbors' door), "Bye window!" (as we passed the window at the landing of the stairs), "Bye doggie!" (because she knows the doggies all live outside, not at home where we were going), etc.



Sarah has added lots of new adjectives to her vocabulary recently, including: yucky, yummy, hot, cold, funny, and, our favorite, delicious. She loves to say "Mmmmm, delicious!" when she is eating food these days. Yesterday, we were playing outside and watching a young teenager playing with her pet rabbit. The rabbit was happily eating grass and clover, and Sarah was enraptured with the animal. She said, "Bunny eat!" and "Eat grass!" and then she began saying over and over, "Mmmm, delicious!"

By the way, please do not judge me for my dorky white crew socks in this picture. They are so warm and comfortable, you have no idea what you are missing!