Playareas, books & fun, oh my!

We had another fun weekend. On Saturday we did a little family outing to Burbank. Exciting, I know. There is a brand new playarea in the mall there so we went to check it out. Ella had a great time running all over the place! And it's more spread out than the play area at the Glendale mall so she had more room to run around. From there, we visited the kid's section at Barnes and Noble. We let Ella out of the stroller to explore on her own and she had a fantastic time! She has an instinct for anything Disney I think, she was able to find any and every book relating to Disney. They even had a whole little section devoted to The Princesses. She went around the whole place pointing and saying, "Oh wow!" "Oh look at this!" "Oh wow!" ("Oh, wow" is a new phrase that she spontaneously spouted while at the bookstore). It was so cute! And it went so well that I think we may do this on a semi-regular basis.

As I reported in an earlier post, Ella is saying "E-O" for Nemo. I decided I was going to try and teach her to say the whole word correctly. So I started saying "Nee-Moh" very slowly and exaggerating my mouth for her. Well she is a very good student, but not quite ready for N and M yet. So now she is going around the house imitating my slowness, saying "Eeee-Oooh".

On Sunday, we did our usual walk to Kenneth Village and then in the afternoon, we met our friends Robin & Terry at the Griffith Park playarea. Even though this park has been basically in our backyard all this time, we've never been to the playarea. And it's HUGE! Ella had a fabulous time running around and exploring all the equipment. Robin & Terry have a son, Julian who is only eleven days older than Lily. The babies had a fun time conversing with each other and flirting. There was a clown there making creatures out of balloons. Ella wanted a flower. She was so excited. She loved this flower balloon! She even took her nap with it and fell asleep with it at bedtime!

Lily is Lily. She is still not sleeping really great at night. I've heard from several people this could go on for years. I'm not sure I can handle that! I'm a sleep person. I need it, I love it, I want it! So hopefully someday soon, we'll get at least one good night's sleep! She is still making her "Squeaker" noises. Andrew and I both hope she grows out of this fun stage very soon. I don't mind her vocalizing and experimenting with sound, but it would be nice if she did it at a decibel level that won't shatter glass. She is super happy most of the time and coos and smiles at you. She is eating baby food three times a day and like most babies, she likes her fruit much better than her veggies.

Well I think that's all for this post. We hope everyone had a good weekend!