Monkey stuff and a New Venture

Wanna know the main reason I haven't been updating about the Monkey?  Simple...she's been saying and doing so much stuff - funny things, wacky things, sweet things, and generally picking up so many new tricks  that just when I plan to write about one, there's something else.  I can't keep up!   Sigh.

Speech is virtually a non-issue now.  It's gone from super delayed to often excessive.  :-)  Maybe some language elements could still use a smidge of catch-up, but whatever...it's coming along fast, and frankly, most of her 'errors' now are pretty cute.  (And let's not forget this is the summer of Toy Story III - I'll spare you all the stories about her wanting a Woody {doll!}). Her school, which at the end of June decided to slate her for the same preschool class again in Sept (they go by ability, not age), noticed her language burst and "academic skills" improvement in late July and bumped her up into their infamously fast-moving integrated class for Sept.  (yay!)

If you're a Facebook friend you've seen some of the antics.  There was the nite I woke up to see her standing next to my bed holding a box of cupcakes; after reading her the riot act, ordering her back to bed, and going to return the cupcakes to the fridge, I noticed a big mess of toys in the living room including her car seat moved away from its spot, sitting in the foyer.  Fast forward to morning,  I see a cupcake sitting on my night table, do a little math in my head, and realize she hadn't eaten any... she'd taken the cupcake out for ME!  (How the doggie hadn't gotten it overnite is beyond me!).  Next, she explained that she took the car seat out (tossing all the toys off it) so she could climb up on it to unlock our apt door and go out in the hall to look for 'the elephant'.  (Our neighbor's door creaks, and we used to say it was an elephant...  but that was around a year ago).  Out in the hall, by herself, at 4am - blagh!

Also around the cupcakes, she'd apparently learned the fine art of distracting me ("Mommy, that was so silly...do it again!!!"), and snatching my cupcake as soon as I fall for it.

And then there's this past Saturday, when we were already running tight for gymnastics, and as I'm finding her leotard I hear her laughing, "Mommy....wook!  Blue and red makes pupple!!".. only to see she's painted her whole self... pupple.  Oy!  Into the shower we go, scrub her down, run the pup off to doggie day care, and actually made it downtown to gymnastics only 10 minutes late.  (She later re-did  her arms!)

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