Dragon Bubbles

As I mentioned before, Alex has now added "dragon" to her word repertoire thanks to Cinder the Bubble Blowing Dragon". What I forgot to mention is that "bubbles" is also on the word list. She picked up that book yesterday, and alternated between the two words repeatedly, smiling the whole time. Too cute.

She has also, in the spirit of all the cartoons where the heroes announce what they're about to do before they do it, begun to tell us when she's about to bounce. She then says "bouncing, bouncing, bouncing" while bouncing. Her definition of bouncing is somewhat loose, and can apply to any sort of up and down motion. She also jumped with us last night. She really just bobbed her torso up and then down - there was nothing remotely airborne about her jumping. Well, maybe one foot left the floor briefly, but that's debatable. She does, however, very much want to jump, and I feel certain that she'll get it eventually. Now, if only it would thaw out enough outside for us to practice in the back yard.....

Alex also helped me yesterday with the eradication of the spider mites on our banana tree. I sprayed it with soapy water several times, and she made sure she was standing just where the droplets that shot past the banana would land, thus catching them with her eyes. Well, probably not, she wasn't rubbing her eyes or anything, just smelled a bit like Palmolive. I suspect that if I put her in the shower I wouldn't have to add baby shampoo. :)

She's still sleeping now, and due to her chronic lack of sleep and apparent growth spurt (1.5 pounds heavier - she's a beast) I'm letting her snooze it up. But we have to brave the cold to get her some new jeans - she's finally bursting the seams and it looks like we're going to hit the 18- month jeans at 18 months! How exciting that fashion-wise she's hitting the developmental mark!