She is beautiful, sweet, and incredibly smart. She melts our hearts when she runs up to us to deliver an unexpected kiss or throws her arms around our necks to give us the biggest hug a 21-month-old can give. She can count to seven, knows all her colors, and can name at least a dozen different animals. She surprises us on a daily basis.
Lately, though, she has mainly been making us laugh. She is definitely one of the funniest kids I have ever known. Let me give you some examples:
She is a little monkey who loves to climb anything and everything. She can go from the ground to on top of the kitchen table in about seven seconds. So now, when she gets hungry she thinks she can just help herself. If she is quiet for more than one minute, then she is most likely doing something she isn't supposed to be doing. If she is in the kitchen, and quiet for more than one minute, then she has most likely found something she would like to eat and is eating it. Twice in the past week Lizzy has gone into the kitchen to find Naomi sitting on the table, mango in hand, biting straight through the mango's hard skin to get to the goodness inside; just like a monkey. She has also helped herself to a tomato in this same manner.
Speaking of things she likes to eat, she loves all the usual suspects: bananas, sugar, candy, chocolate, etc. She also loves onions, raw. If one of us is chopping onions for dinner, she wants a piece. The first time I thought, "Oh this will be funny," as I handed her the onion waiting expectantly for a disgusted face, but she likes them. We don't like her breath afterwards!
Today we went to the zoo. Our little girl absolutely loves animals. She loves to pet dogs and cats. She loves to look through her animal books and tell us the names for all the animals and the sounds that the animals make. So, I thought she would love the zoo. She couldn't be bothered. There were tigers, leopards, monkeys, and rhinos, and she thought they were all lame. We went to see the elephant, which she knows the name of in two different languages. We were standing eight feet from this huge majestic animal with no gate or fence to separate us. She was more interested in the swings nearby. There was one animal she was very happy to see which is not found in many zoos in the U.S. The one animal that caught her attention? The Guinea pigs. Squeak, squeak.
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