Dear Lil,
You are now 21 months – aka the age I can no longer count in months without sounding crazy. In other words – you will be 2 in December. Seems hard to believe.
You are such a little fun buddy to be around lately. You literally crack us up and we crack you up and we are one big pain in sides laughing family. The rest of the time we want to kill each other in our small overcrowded apartment but you know. You can’t have it all.
Right now we are in Maine on a family vacation. It is cold here! But then again your Dad thinks I am being a wimp. I didn’t grow up in New Hampshire so what can I say. For a nap just now I dressed you in a long sleeve onsie, tights, footed fuzzy long-sleeved pjs and leg warmers on top of that. I also put about three blankets in your travel crib. As we know I tend to over due it with the layers so forgive me.
We’ve had a great time here so far and despite you acting like a bored teen the first day but you are starting to adjust. You were so excited to tell me after a walk with Dad about seeing an eagle that you came running up the driveway screaming EAGLE! EAGLE! EAGLE!. You were also excited to report back to Dad that we say a chipmunk on our walk about. You also told Dad the chipmunk was eating a muffin (?) – which was a lie – but that was ok it made up laugh out loud anyway.
Some things you love doing as of late include going through a list of everyone you know before bed. We do this every night and as you might imagine as a Brooklyn kid on a large playground – you know a lot of people. Usually we do it in pairs – matching the kid with their parent or caregiver. You start and I match like this -
You: Charlie
Me: Roz
You: Cheryl
Me: Sylas
etc.
Then right before bed you yell DAY! DAY! and we have to – in the dark – go through our entire day (in order) starting with what we had for breakfast until we went to bed. This routine I love because it helps both you and I wind down from our busy day by reflecting on everything we’ve done. The best is you now chime in with random things that I have to figure out. For example you might say “cello! cello!” and I think long and hard until I remember that’s right. We stopped to talk to our neighbor Nina who was carrying a cello.
Speaking of – you are obsessed with the cello right now. We’ve played you a few Yo Yo Ma (as you call Yo Ma Ma) and you like to imitate his head movements when he plays and then play with a pretend bow. I’m wondering how young I can start you in playing an instrument and hope you keep interested. It would be amazing. The other day our neighbor Nina that tours around the world in a famous musical trio invited us over for a real live viewing of a cello being played. You stood there dumbfounded. Literally frozen as you watched Nina play right in front of your very eyes.
We love you.
Yes I cutting this short. I am starving and need to make lunch.
xo
