ABC

Layla loves the alphabet. For the past few months, she's been able to recognize and say each letter. (If they are capitalized. We are still working on the lower case ones.) She pronounces most of them correctly, but others are more difficult like, "W," which she pronounces as, "dub-dum." I love to watch her little mouth move as she concentrates to pronounce certain letters. So cute.

We're working on the ABC song. While she knows her letters, she still gets confused on what order they go in for the song. When she forgets what letter comes next, she says, "M,M,M,O."

Here we are singing the alphabet song. Layla fills in the blanks when we stop singing. I know it sounds like she's just making a random sound, but she really is saying the correct letter, even if it's not perfect. I think she did a great job!

We are also working on saying, "I love you," which she pronounces as "I yove you." Melts my heart!

Swimming lessons are going okay. Let's just say that she does not like the teacher. Can you blame her though? Every time I hand her over to that lady, she either pushes Layla under the water, with no warning, or splashes her in the face. Ha, ha. Surprisingly, it doesn't make her mad to be shoved under, she just doesn't want to be near the teacher. So I have to shove her under myself, which doesn't seem to bother her. Apparently it's okay for Mommy to be mean, but not the teacher? Either way, at least she has fun!

Today after her nap, we did the usual routine of Layla handing me one of her stuffed animals and naming which one it is (Kitty, Piglet, Dog, etc.) This time she handed me three of them at once and said, "Friends." Wow! Totally surprised me! She must be listening after all, when Mitch and I refer to her stuffed animals as her "friends." I guess I should be careful; she's always listening, even when it doesn't seem like it!