This has been an unseasonably temperate winter in Seattle: not a flake of snow, a minimum of rain, and the flowers and trees started blooming in late February!
Yesterday it was 65 degrees and sunny, so we decided to take Elsa on a trip to the Woodland Park Zoo (the largest zoo in the Seattle area.)
Elsa loves identifying animals and making animal noises (her favorite is the duck, but she is equally adept at pig, cow, horse, sheep, dog, cat, crow, elephant, whale, snake, bunny rabbit and a bunch more I’m sure I’m forgetting.) So we thought she would love seeing the animals in person.
We stayed at the zoo for almost three hours, but Elsa eventually tuckered out and fell asleep. Although she seemed to enjoy seeing many of the animals, spotting a duck brought out the biggest smile.
Here are some pictures from our trip to the zoo:
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| Woodland Park Zoo |
I’d estimate that Elsa knows how to use more than a hundred words now, although her pronunciation on many of them is pretty rough and requires mommy or daddy translation. She often leaves off the first sound from syllables, so water is “ater” and “sleep sack” is “eep ack.”
About three weeks ago, she learned how to add words together with prepositions to form mini-sentences. In particular, she knows on, off, up, down, in and out, and likes to demand everything possible to change state. “Lights on!” “Music off!” “Walk out!” Sometimes, the meaning is clear, even if the grammar is not. “Book on!” means that she wants to read a book, for instance, usually preceded by “this one” to indicate the book she wants to read.
Here are some pictures from about a month ago that I haven’t had time to post, of a trip to Crossroads Park. Elsa loves the swing and the slide, and wants to go on them as much as possible!
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| Elsa – February 2010 |
Elsa can run and jump now, and she’s learning to stomp, walk backwards, and to go down stairs (with a hand from one of us.) The pace at which she’s learning words is definitely increasing, and she’s becoming more talkative during the day, especially around people she’s comfortable with.
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