Alex has countless toys and books that attempt to teach her the alphabet and her numbers, and of course we count and say the abc's all the time, so it's no surprise that she likes to count and say her letters. She's been counting for a while now, only with a few quirks. She has never said one, and the rest goes something like this, " two, six, salmon, eight, nineten." We're desperately trying to get her to say one, but when we prompt her to, " Say one!" she says "Two.". Every time.
The alphabet is a new development. She's been saying "Aybeecee." for a while now, but it turns out she knows way more than we thought. It seems that when we say/sing the alphabet and pause at just about any letter, she can supply us with at least the next letter. She won't, however, say "E" under any circumstances. Other letters - G, P, Z....hmm, I'm sensing a trend here....are announced in a very Alex sort of way. She pauses a second, tilts her head to the side, and says the letter, her voice swinging up as if to say "Is it -insert letter here-?" Then she busts out her best smart-girl smile when we tell her she's right. And she waits for the applause. Like she does all the time, so that's no different than, well, the rest of her life really.
She also has been reciting, mostly just today though maybe we didn't notice it before today, chunks of the alphabet out of the blue. Her favorite chunk? Why, everyone's favorite. Elemenopee. Cuearess is a close second. Oh, of course she still says Aybeecee all the time, but I really think Elemenopee has eclipsed that for the top alphabet spot. And no, we don't ever say the alphabet at lightning speed so that she's thinking Elemenopee is just one letter, we always say it slowly and deliberately, as do all her alphabet-spouting toys. She just hears it like all kids do.
Alex and I also had a fabulous time at Ikea today. We browsed the kid section for a long time, picking out all they toys that would only be played with at the store and never again at home, and finding the most rickety kiddy chairs in the display area. Then we (she closely followed by me) ran off to try out kiddy beds. Then, there was much impatience as she was placed into the stroller, strapped mercilessly in, and rolled about the rest of the store. We had lunch, and Alex inhaled her chicken Marsala like it was her last meal. (Fear not, she had left-over pizza tonight.) And then it was off to browse a bit more and try out a few sofas. We did the very necessary can Alex get on the couch? testing, and decided to make decisions later with daddy - only he can truly do the how high does Alex bounce off the couch? testing.
We left for home with exactly no purchases except that chicken lunch, but with many ideas on how to spend all her college savings, I mean, tax returns. She took a ten minute nap in the car on the ride home, succumbing just as we got close to home only because there weren't trucks exciting enough to keep her attention.
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