As you will see, or maybe have already seen, Squeaker and I had pancakes for breakfast. I made coffee the night before and placed the griddle on the counter so I wouldn't forget.
We believe that Squeaker is growing again. She has been sleeping a lot. What in Squeaker's world is a lot of sleep? Lets put it this way. Can you really call it a day if you were only awake seven hours? She hasn't been sleeping that long everyday, which required not getting up until half past ten and taking a nap, but there have been some monumental naps most days since we returned home from our travels.
Squeaker is really learning to talk. Sometimes we can prompt her into saying new words, for example by pointing to her "noman". Sometimes she surprises us with a word, such as when she said "pleez" along with the sign, to emphasize that she really wanted me to read her one of her books. She's learning lots of new words, such as "fut ball", which her grandmother taught her (the spaces are to indicate that she always leaves a long pause between the syllables). She was asking for football balloons by name in the grocery store yesterday, just in case there is any question that she has the oblong spheroid in mind when she says the word. One way or another Squeaker's dad is going to have to be careful about how he refers other drivers now when she's in the the car. Let's just say she got out of the car one day this week practicing the long 's' sound.
On the off chance that today is a short nap I had best get cleaned up while she's sleeping. Have a good week everyone.
