Andrea’s Weblog

I’m constantly surprised by how much Elizabeth knows. The other day
we watched a documentary on Seabiscuit. I had mistakenly ordered it
instead of Seabiscuit the movie from Netflix. It was mostly just
talking heads, but there were a few exciting horse race scenes, so I
pointed out to her that they were horses. The following week she and
her grandpa were looking through a National Geographic magazine
together. He asked her where the horse was and she pointed at the
postage stamp-sized horse in the black and white photo. I was
surprised that she could make the leap between the “live” horses on
TV and this little tiny one on paper. It’s also not an animal that
we’ve talked about before. She also told me that the little yellow
half-moon thing that is on the seconds hand of her monkey clock is a
“na-na.” She knows what real bananas look like and again she was able
to make the leap.

She’s also started pretending. The highlight of her pretend play so
far is when she took the plastic monkey from the barrel of monkeys
game, pulled up my shirt, found the monkey’s face, put him to my boob
and started making smacking noises.

As Elizabeth would say “bow!” As in “Wow!” As in “Elizabeth, look at
the moon”. . . “Bow!”