Sunday, December 6, 2009

The gang's all here


In the past two weeks Eliza has finally named her babies (they've all been called baby up til now). They ride trains, go to school, go to story time, etc. We play babies a lot around here. Allow me to introduce JackieBaby, Emma Gigi, Annie, Chelsea, and One (aka Flower).

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Two Old Mice

Eliza's singing repertoire is really expanding. She still sings a combined version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star & the ABC song, but her latest favorite is Two Old Mice. Her grandpa tried to teach her Three Blind Mice one day and somehow this is the version she came up with. She also recently started singing "Thank you Jesus" over and over, something she must have picked up from her Episcopalian preschool, as we've never heard this particular song. She also tries to sing Hello Everybody from her Music Together CD, but she's shortened it to "hello body". In fact she often tells us "c'mon body!" She still loves to sing Ring Around the Rosie. She now has a play guitar, drums, a microphone, tamborine and more! So, if anyone wants to start a toddler band or have a jam session, come on over!

Story Time

One thing I've always wanted to instill in Eliza is a love of reading. We read to her every night, take her to the library a lot, etc. Last week we took her to 3 different story times (we normally don't quite that often) and now she is HOOKED! For the past week she's been arranging all of her chairs and announcing that it's story time. She's even designated a "wiggle box" to put her wiggles in while we're reading, something our neighborhood library storytime does.