I’m realizing now that this series of blog posts could get pretty darn long. Oh well.

Alana is starting to show off what she knows to me every morning when I get up. It’s very cute. Our morning routine goes something like this:

1. 7:30am SS gets up, plays with Alana
2. 8:00am SS leaves, I get up and go into the bathroom
3. 8:10am I start getting dressed, and Alana busts into my room
4. 8:30am I leave for work

So between 8:10am and 8:30am every morning, I play with Alana. It starts almost every day with her giving me a rundown of everything she knows how to say that she can think of: “Daddy… Mommy… Baby… Yaya… Foot… One… Two… Ball… Fish… etc.”

She surprised me today by pointing to my two feet at the same time and saying, “two foot.”

She also pointed at me and said, “this is a daddy,” which was cute. She’s getting pretty good at the “this is a ____” sentence pattern. (I thought she was supposed to be learning single words, followed by two-word sentences?)

Some other new words she knows include:

* hot * cold * nose * hair * out (meaning “go out”) * please (pronounced “peas”) * cat * cow * flower * hua (Chinese for “flower”) * pad (meaning “iPad”)

Last weekend we chinchilla-sat. He was a really nice little critter, never biting. Good for our not-so-gentle-with-animals toddler! Pictures of that: Here are some pictures from church, taken by SS a few weeks ago: