So our car is broken again, though this is nothing new but I thought i’d mention it. The roads here are just beating our car up. Every day you see someone pushing a car here- and we have actually helped push two cars with our car. Ironically a fruit truck broke down and needed gas so Will picked him up to take him to get gas and on the way to the station our car broke down!! LOL! We’re looking into getting an ATV to do things around the town and then keep the car for trips to San Jose, Nicaragua, or when company is here, etc. We just found out from a neighbor that another neighbor is selling his ATV so i think we’ll be checking that out. Our car has literally been in the shop almost every week aside from the first week we got here. We had it for 3 months in San Ramon and had one small $20.00 issue the whole time. We have had it for 4 weeks here and have been to the mechanic 3 out of the 4 weeks…but I digress lol. Anyway, right now one of our neighbors brought over a battery charger and hopefully the car is getting nice and charged up. We’ll see…
On to more important things…Sosi!!! She is popping out new words every single day. There are so many new ones each day that i forget to mention all the words. I am going to try and list out a few of my favorites now and I know i’ll be forgetting a bunch but it is just happening so fast. She is absolutely, positively HILARIOUS! Lately she has a thing for her Elmo doll and wants to take him to the beach with her and put him in the WA-WA (ocean). Needless to say, Elmo has also visited the WA-WA in our washing machine. She also likes to dip him in the dog bowl and put him in the sand. Poor elmo. Although there is someone who has it worse than Elmo around here and that would be miss LULU. Oh this tolerant kitty. Sophie is just obsessed with her little kitty and loves to put her in the stroller, the drawers, her plow toy, basically anywhere she can stuff this kitty she does. She also loves to squish and hug her and put blankets and towels over her to pretend she is tucking her in to sleep. Luckily Lulu is one chill cat and lets Sophie do pretty much anything without a peep or hiss. She is finally realizing that she needs to be gentle with the baby kitty but Sophie’s gentle and normal gentle are still a bit far apart. Well at least Lulu gets rewarded since Sophie shares just about everything she eats with the kitty…except her ice cream. When Lulu tries to come get some ice cream Sosi puts out her hand and shakes it while saying “NO, NO, NO” lol…don’t mess with a baby and her ice cream. Sophie also loves tucking in all her stuffed animals, feeding a “ba-ba” to her “bay-be” (baby doll), drinking smoothies, eating everything (except watermelon), playing in the ocean, playing in the sand, playing in the pool, coloring, and throwing balls all over the house. She is one busy little bee lately and has a smile on her face from the moment she wakes up to the moment she goes to sleep. She is full of bigs hugs and kisses, and is an absolute cuddle bug. Mommy and daddy feel so lucky and proud! She really is more than we could have ever imagined. I am so glad we get to live her here and she gets to play at the beach every day and hang out with both her parents. I realize how fortunate we are and just feel so blessed. Now on to the expanding vocab…here are a few of my new faves…
bug (buh), bucket (buck), bird (bir), cat (meeeeow), rock (rock), nose (nose), eye (eeeeye), mouth (mah), hair (air), Nana (nana), Mimi (mimi), bottle (bah-bah), Ernie (enie), Bert (baht)
I’m sure I’ll think of more later but there are a few of her fave newbies. She is also very big on “ELMO SAYS”, it is like “simon says” only “Elmo says”. She knows how to touch her nose, eyes, mouth, and how to tap her toes, shake her shoulders, tap her head, and rub her belly. She also does all the animal sounds now like moo for cow, woof woof for dog, meeeeow for cat, and ROAR for lion (she loves this one). She still loves to dance and is coming up with some very creative moves. She loves ring around the rosey, and chase. Ugh she is just growing up so fast it is crazy!! Well i need to go wake her little butt now since it is almost 3:30 and yesterday she napped until 4pm and we ended up staying up until 12am waiting for her to get tired!! Ok, again, our internet is still mega slow and still working on getting it faster so i can start uploading this video library i have sitting on my computer. Love u all! xoxo