Halle Loves...

• playing with the water in the sink - one of the ways I get her to stay still while I do her hair!
• her babies
  
• grabbing her camera and saying "cheese" when we take a picture of her
• her apron (thanks Mema!) and her kitchen
  
• wearing hats and always has to have one on - that or her Halloween headband
• the Crocs that I got her and always wants those on
• her friends and always makes sure they have enough food - if they don't have anything left on their plates, she says "more" meaning she thinks they need more! It is very thoughtful of her...
• singing and dancing - she just started to go on these singing outbursts where she moves her arms a lot like she is either conducting or telling a really intriguing story
• ring around the rosie and the hello song
• talking - she is really starting to say a lot (too many words to list!) - she will say at least one new word a day and usually it will be something that I have said (we really have to watch what we say these days!). Here are some of the things she says that I think I am probably the only ones that understands: Hair-plane - Airplane, Elbo - Elmo, Ermie - Ernie, Ah-bees - Annabelle (but when you ask her to say Anna and Belle separately, she does but when you ask her to say Annabelle, she says "ah-bees"!), Gulk - Milk (though she just started saying milk), Ah-juice - Apple juice, Tu - Tunnel, Puh - Pillows, Tuh - TV
• reading books with Dada when he comes home from work
  

We are so in love with our little Halle girl and are constantly laughing at things she does. A couple of weeks ago, she was in the bath and tooted...she looked down, said "toot" and then held her nose and said "pee-eew"! Brandon was on call so he missed it but it was so funny. I had taught her the "pee-eew" before but she had never done it until tonight... Shows you how careful you have to be around kids this age...they just soak everything up. She is also really into pretend and will put on her shoes, grab her purse and say "Bye".

She just finished her first class...it was a Romp N Roll class at the RAC on Wednesday mornings. The first class she hung on to me a bunch but by the end, she was really enjoying it. They played with balls, did Ring around the Rosie, sung the hello song, walked on a balance beam, played with hula hoops, went through a tunnel, played with a ball parachute and her favorite part, getting a stamp on her arm at the end of each class. It was always a bee stamp and she would look for it each day and when it washed off, she would still look for it! Her other favorites were the hello song, ring around the rosey and the parachute. I think her next class should probably be a music class. This girl loves to dance!