Alice's Words

I love the way she says water bottle. I don't even know how she makes it sound so cute, but I just melt every time she says it.
When she wants us to come and join her she says "om on" (short for come on), and she holds her little elbow up and waves us toward her with her hand scooping in toward her body. She invites us to sit with her, usually on her favorite place to play her "night-night" game, by saing "here you go" and patting the ground right next to her.
Our little summer Peach loves the water. One July morning she woke me up at 7:00 and immediately asked me to go play in her "simmy pool." Of course she had to put on her "simmy soup" first. She thinks those little swimmy diapers that have a picture of Nemo on the front are really special.

We are noticing that Alice loves watching movies with singing and dancing. She just can't get enough of the Lullaby League and the Lollipop Kids. But the best part is that she is just beginning to try to sing and dance herself. She gets so excited during the Munchkinland scene in Wizard of Oz when the little Lullaby ballerinas come out. Alice will curl her little toes under her and dance around on tippy toes! It's so darling I just can't stand it.
Her favorite song right now is "Happy Birthday." She has been saying something like "Oppy-chi-choo" all summer. I thought it was just something that she made up, but as we started talking about birthdays more we began to see that she has been saying "Happy Birthday!" Now she says it pretty accurately, and she sings it, too! She sings it at the top of her lungs. She loves birthdays. We have been talking about it so long, she probably thinks that her birthday lasts all summer. And why not? We are really celebrating two birthdays every summer. We know how very precious and wonderful it is to have a baby that grows up. Alice's birthdays will always be a very big deal to me. She is my sunshine.