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i lined up ella's toy animals today and pointed "what's this?" to each one of them. straight down the line she said "cow," "horse," "pig," and "chicken." (sheep are just called "baaa")

i then sat with her at the computer and pointed through photos of family and friends. "who's this?" i asked her, and she answered "mimi" or "jay" or "heather" or "kendra" or "grandma." these words aren't crystal clear, but she is consistent and the consonants or the syllables are correct, and you can understand what she's trying to say.

yesterday i came home and momby said "we've been saying our colors." and she grabbed a pink crayon out of the box and said "ella, what color is this?" and ella said "pink." and she grabbed a yellow crayon out of the box and ella said "yellow."

this afternoon she was playing in the living room and i said "ella, who is jesus' mommy?" and she said "mary." she knows this because of j.'s book...but i wasn't reading her the book at the time, so i was quite impressed that she knew that.

last night we went to the library, where they have a large bear in the children's reading section. she loves that bear, and will snuggle it while i pick out stories to take home with us. when we got home last night i said to her "ella, tell daddy what we saw at the library" and she said "bear." i was really impressed that she could understand that sort of a question that requires remembering something at a particular place.

she also says:

hat
monkey
polar bear
chapstick
God
spoon
tyke trike
Melody (a little wooden doll)
Burt (another wooden doll)
Little Guy (a plastic tub toy doll)
boy
belly
balloon
plane
chair
muffin (sounds like "muh-muh")
blue
"minnie" (a baby doll who looks like ella did when she didn't have hair)
milk
pepper
couscous
coo-coo (for coo-coo clock)
step (when we go up steps)
deer
necklace (sounds like "neh-neh")
mitten (sounds like "mih-mih")
Kendra
Jay
Heather (sounds like "hah")

and a million more things.

amazing.