We must have hit the terrible twos with a bang, because I am regularly horrified by her behavior when we are out. That, or her cold is just making her miserable and she just wants to stay home and “snuggle daddy!” Unfortunately, Daddy’s back is pretty bad and he can’t hold her, so that is just another reason to have a fit. I guess I am just tired. We did have an amazing bed time singalong tonight. Sam sang the chorus for me from “Baby Beluga.” She sings “Swim so wild, swim so Freeeeee!” with such glee, I expect her to fly with it. Then she sang Twinkle, Twinkle and itsy Bitsy Spider too. She never sang anything with me before, and tonight she comes out with all of them. She also will sing the alphabet with you if you leave out the fourth letter of every sequence (she remembers all the letters on the fourth beat.) She was giggling and laughing and having a great time singing, and well, so was I. She is incredibly charming and amazing at times.

Her favorite book right now is “A little Bird.” It’s about a little bird that is amazed by everyone else’s gifts, and then learns it can fly at the end of the book. It’s pretty cute, and has elephants, giraffes and kangaroos in it. She loves those animals very much. She knows that a baby kangaroo is called a joey. She is working on her numbers. She can count up to six pretty easily now, and even remembers to say five now and then. Yesterday she told me we had 6 water bottles in the driveway, and she was right! I thought we had a bright little kid on our hands, until I met Matthew. He speaks English and French. Sam is still the brightest bulb I’ve ever seen. I’m her mom. No one else is as perfect as my little lion. She has a new jacket that has a furry collar and looks like a lion mane. She loves it when I call her my little lion, although she keeps looking for the picture of a lion on her coat. I may have to get a lion decal and stick it on for her.