Saturday

I was struck when Elle blurted out "Ma Ma" in a perfect chinese accent. To make sure it's not my hallucination, I said "Ma Ma" to her in the hope that she would repeat it after me. She did, for 3 times! They're perfect, not a baby babbling version of "Ma Ma" at all. Mama was over the moon.

It's due date for library books again so we spent some time in the library this afternoon. The tots room was pretty packed with kids and parents. Elle was much more interested in the surrounding than the books. She was looking around, searching for the source of the noise and movement, and then crawling all over the place chasing after the tots she liked. We met two sisters, Lori and Kayla, about 5-ish and 3-ish years old. Lori came over to say hi and talked a bunch in her cutesy tots way. Her little sister, Kayla, was a little bit on the shy side, not talking much, but, the first thing she did was to pinch Elle's cheek and then blurted out "so cuuute". Then, came another toddler, passionately wrapping Elle around with two hands, hugging her off the ground, squeezing her so hard that Elle's face was literally nestled under her neck. It was a fun day.