Elisa-isms

Elisa's personality has really blossomed! She is really funny and quite serious at times. She is communicating a lot these days. Here is a list of some things she is saying...

• "I need it!" She says "I need to eat", "I need a diaper", "I need juice", etc. Last week I went into her bedroom to get her up from a nap. The stench in the room told me that she needed to be changed. She looked at me and immediately said, "I need a wipe!"
• "NO! I don't!" For example: We might say, "Elisa come sit in your chair." And she will reply, "No... I don't!"
  
• "No. All better!" If we ask her, "Elisa, do you have a dirty diaper?" she will say, "No. All better!" meaning - sure there is something in there! but, I feel better about it now!
• "Wanna color!?" She always wants to color and is asking us to join in the fun.
• "Wanna play!?" This typically involves the word "dollhouse" attached to the end of the sentence. "Wanna play dollhouse, Mamma!?"
  
• "Oh! I choked!" If she coughs or sneezes she let's you know that she has "choked".
• "I wanna call Granddaddy for a minute." You can insert any of her grandparents' names in there.
• "There's a ____ right there!" Whatever Elisa sees she will point out and make sure that you know it is RIGHT THERE! For example: She recently told us that "there is a fly right there, on the other side of the street!"
  
• "I'm looking at pictures!" We have a lot of family pictures near the dining room table. Elisa likes to study them and point out who is in each picture - she knows everyone by name even though she has only seen them a couple of times!
• "Wanna see pictures of..." She loves looking at pictures of family and friends on the computer and will ask to see random people occasionally. Just now she asked to see pictures of Tiago and Garrett.
• "No way, dude!" I taught her this several months ago and now she uses it at just the right time - when it is appropriate and you don't expect it.
  
• "Yes!" She was into "NO!" for about 2 months after her 2nd birthday, but then "yes" kicked in and she uses it a lot.
• She tells us what she will dream about and what her dreams have been about - they normally have to do with "kiki cats and balloons and puppy doggies!"
• "Hi!" Of course, this isn't new, but she uses it a lot when she is nervous or doesn't know what else to say. it is her fallback phrase.
  
• "Wanna ponytail." She loves having her hair fixed.
• "Elisa's hair... so beautiful!" I don't have a comment for this one!
  
• "Wanna listen to music/songs! We love to listen to music in our house. Elisa joins in and listens to all our favorites with us - usually dancing!
• "Wanna sing A,B,Cs?" She sings the entire song - missing a couple of letters like "L, M, N & O" and she puts "I" after "V", but other than that she has it down - even the "Now I know my A,B,Cs. Next time won't you sing with me?" We are trying to film her singing, but she wants to look at the pictures on the camera every time we get it out. We will get it done and post it.
  
• "Amen!" We say our prayers each night and in the last couple of days Elisa has been doing the majority of the praying. Our prayer time sounds something like this: Daddy or Mommy- "Dear God.." Elisa- "thank you for this day... and play and eat." Then Mommy or Daddy will add something that is relevant to the day's events and say "in Jesus name..." and Elisa will close with "Amen!" It is great! I love our prayer time.

It is cool to see how she is learning and developing. She is a lot of fun and certainly keeps us entertained!