Leaves

We all know the climate change is strange for Tati.  Really, it turns out she is handling it like a champ.  She doesn't seem too cold too much of the time.  Well with the climate change comes a change in the type of plants.  In Benin there are beautiful palm trees with coconuts, the vegatation is very georgous.  Everything is green for a big part of the year.  Weather just goes from MAJOR Hot, to HOTTER & back to VERY Hot.  Well............................. here in good ole Ohio it's not exactly like that.  She has had a new expirence over the last 2 days.  LEAF PICK UP!!!  Wow, I know how jealous some people can get but yup, Tati got to have the joy.  LOL  She really did have a good time.  The weather was amazing, like 70, both days & she would work a little, play a lot, work a little, play a lot.  We all had a good time.  She now has a bicycle that was down at my parents.  It is down here & Papa (my dad) put training wheels on it so she could learn how to ride.  She is crazy about it, she wants to ride all day everyday.  Also, we have one of those garages where it becomes a catch-all for the stuff that needs to go out of your immediate view but you haven't decided where it should live permanently.  Today Tati figured out that there was interesting "stuff" in there because when we finished with the yard we started straightening out the garage.  My mom always laughs that the kids love to "shop" when they are in a situation like that.  The reason that is so funny is because it fits so perfect.  Tati was deciding what she wanted & where she wanted it to go when she took it in the house.  So we brought some stuff in but mostly Brian & I were in a mood to pitch so we filled the trash cans as fast as we could before we changed our minds.

Tati's new word in English that I noticed tonight was, "necklace."  It always throws me just a little off when she blurts out a word in English, especially when I haven't set out to teach it to her.  She has just picked it up somewhere & started using it in the correct place.  Oh yea, the new word Wednesday was "everyone."  She was asking me who something was for & said, "Mama, Papa or Everyone."  I totally lost track of what I was doing & had her repeat it several times.  Poor thing.  lol  The other new English thing she is trying out are the words "look" & "watch."  She knows they both mean - to see something - but she isn't sure yet when each applies.  She will ask me to watch something when she wants me to look at it.  "Mama watch," and she hands me a book.  I heard her tell a little friend today to look when she did a dance & I knew immediately she meant watch.  The last thing she is doing on the language front; is that she is starting to "repeat" everything she hears.  Anyone who has paid attention when a child was learning to speak will understand what I am talking about.  She repeats but doesn't know the words so the repeated sound is only gibberish but the sounds are exactly what came across her ears.