What happened to August and September?
My desire to get back to blogging once a month has not happened yet. However, I have hope that I will reach my goal. I am posting this blog in November...hmmmm. When we returned from Colorado we purchased new used recliners and a couch for our front room which Jamila is leaning on in the picture below. We were very excited about the purchase since the furniture looks nice and new and was inexpensive. Any bolded and italicized words in the entry are words Jamila particularly likes and says repeatedly when said or read. Jamila started talking before her first birthday babbling and singing with a word here and there that was comprehensible-baby, mama, square. A few days before her first birthday she exploded with words dirt, bird, baby, arf arf-she learned to bark and she has not stopped for much since then. She loves telling us everything.

Would you like some milk?

Papa and I always have lots of fun. We both like to joke and laugh together.

Jamila is truly a gem and a pearl just bursting out all the time.

The dog now goes woof woof. I realized dogs bark differently - woof woof, arf arf and bow wow.

With my Papa again and he was reading me the dump truck book with wheels.

Jamila watching Dominic vacuum. She used to be so scared of it that we had to take her out of the house to vacuum or do it when she was sleeping with her door shut. Now she is curious but catious.

Please come read to me. I love reading, let's read all day long.

This is my new friend Jacob. He was born in August almost on the same day as his sister Samantha. I love babies!

My breakfast - yum yum- cheese, cheerios and blueberries.

I never bought Jamila her promised balloon (baee) for her birthday so we bought one in September and this balloon was loved and carried around for several weeks. It lasted that long!

This is really interesting and I must investigate how it feels and the colors and this stringy thing - how does it connect?

The BEACH

Another glorious day at the beach. Jamila loves the water and the sand and shells. She cannot get enough of the water and always wants to be in it even when they are splashing in her face.

A family photo at the beach.

DRESS-UP and other activities....

Hi! I love my green boa and my yellow fairy skirt.

This picture is worth a thousand words. She loves her boas and walks around the house with them all the time. The boa and fairy skirt are from the dollar tree-got to love it! The Dora romper is from a lovely Baha'i friend in the area and the cat is from her Auntie Layla and Isabella. The car to her left behind her is also a hand me down from her friends Adalia, Devon and Solace.

I love it when Papa reads to me. Read to me all the time please. Read me the same book over and over so I know it by heart.

I love pillows (piee) and my trusty pink bear. Rolling on the floor, hugging pillows and hanging out down here is fun.

We come to the end of a month but will have more postings soon.