a few funny things

for your enjoyment

lils mimics. everyone. in random ways.

when you sneeze, she sneezes and laughs.

when you cough, she forces out a fake cough and laughs.

the other night at dinner, bradford burped (rude!), and lils immediately and without hesitation made a loud (and quite accurate) burp sound. it was hilarious. truly. [of course, our laughing just made her laugh more and attempt to do it again.]

when i brush my hair, she searches through the drawer in the bathroom, finds a brush, and tries to brush her hair.

last night, she saw me shaving my legs. she took one of her foam bath letters and started rubbing it up and down her leg with a very serious look on her face. who knew i looked that serious when i shaved my legs? apparently i do.

lils does know some words. and, we are trying to teach her more every day. when she points to something, we tell her what it is. we also try to teach her body parts. we sing head and shoulders knees and toes and other ridiculous songs. we point out our ear and then her ear. our eyes and then her eyes. etc.

well, she finds belly buttons to be the funniest body part. if you ask her where a "button" is, she will giggle and try to lift your shirt to find your button. she cannot, however, find her own button. this is because she can not see it.

anyway . . . she also seems to know what a breast is (in this house, we call them "boobies"). [this should not surprise you, as she is a boobie baby.]

a few days ago, lils and i were out with ruby and liz. lils pointed at ruby and said, "what's that" (or her version of it). we told her it was ruby. then, we tried to get her to say ruby. pointing at ruby, we said, "ruby" "ruby" ruby" over and over. now that i think about it, both girls were probably very annoyed by this behavior!

well, finally, lils said something that sounded like ruby. boy, was i impressed. she is advanced! then, lils leaned over, grabbed the neck of ruby's shirt, pulled it down, and said something that sounded like ruby again. this action, however, made it obvious that she was talking about ruby's boobie. not ruby.

i just looked at liz and said, "that's what you get for naming your child something that rhymes with boobie."