Grover.... not Elmo!

For a while now, Isabella has been given a “pass” on referring to ‘Grover’ as ‘Elmo’. This is because every muppet that she sees she’ll say ‘Elmo’. Recently, she’s started calling other muppets by their correct names, ‘Zoe’, ‘Bert’, ’Ernie’, ’Big Bird’, but still ‘Grover’ is still ‘Elmo’. (occasionally ‘Blue Elmo’, but mostly just ‘Elmo’). So, now, she can no longer get away with it. We have lots and lots of Grover books and when she reads them it sounds something like this…

“Elmo… blah blah blah…” next page

“Elmo… blah blah blah..” next page

“Elmo… blah blah blah..” next page

So, once again, we continue to work on distinguishing between Grover and Elmo.

The ‘Zoe’ character is one of her new favorites. When she says “Zoe” it sounds just like “owie”. So, sometimes I hear her yelling “Owie! Owie! Owie!” from the other room and I go to she if she’s hurt and she’s just found a picture of Zoe.

She has other words that I have to determine the context to know what she is saying. All these works sounds exactly the same to me:

Rocket (the rocket from Little Einsteins)

Rocky (the dog next door)

Broccoli

One morning around 8 am Isabella and Jeff were watching TV and I thought she was yelling “Broccoli, broccoli” and I thought “She wants broccoli for breakfast? This is new…” I then realized they were watching “Little Einsteins” and she was excited because she saw Rocket.

Isabella’s vocabulary is always increasing. Lots of her words have to do with food. It cracks me up when she says blueberries, yogurt, cereal, etc, since I can barely understand it, but I know what she is saying. The sentence she says the most often is “I don’t want it!” The other day she was looking for a sticker she misplaced and I told her “I think you left it upstairs”. She looked at me and said “Papa has it!” and she ran upstairs.

I'll share a couple random photos - the first is her deciding which hat, mittens and boots she wanted to wear on a recent trip to the store - she looked kind of funny.

And a picture of a total couch potato. Photo doesn't show the crumbs all over her....