It has been a little more than 6 months since we moved to our new home, and probably time to update everyone on how we are all doing. I’ll start with Elissa, as she is the most fun to write about. Lissie has grown at least one or two inches taller since Christmas, and her vocabulary has grown substantially as well. People here often think she is around 4 years old, as she is much taller than other children her age! We speak mostly English when we are at home, so she has still learned more English than Portuguese so far. Currently, her favorite phrases/sentences to use are “I love ____” (she fills in the blank with such words as chocolate, blanket, dress, shoes, Xuxa, letters, and any other random thing she is excited about at the time) and “I need ____” (the blank is often filled with the same words listed previously). She is absolutely obsessed with letters and the alphabet right now! She has a small set of foam letters which she must have with her in her bed at night or she won't fall asleep. At least once a day, she sits in the computer chair, ‘types’ on the keyboard and says “ABCs?? ABCs????” until I come over and turn on an alphabet video on Youtube for her. She will then stay seated and continue watching various ABC songs, number songs, Elmo, and pretty much any other children’s video that looks interesting to her, for as long as I allow her. She also continues to LOVE watching the old classic Christmas shows, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Frosty the Snowman. (I keep my fingers crossed that one of these days while playing with her DVD’s, she will scratch these movies so badly they will no longer play... 6 month have passed of not-so-gentle playing, and no sign of lethal scratches yet. Sigh.) Elissa has also become quite the singer and dancer, keeping us well-entertained! One day while watching an ABC song for about the bajillionth time, she suddenly blurted out “I need to dance now!”, hopped off of my lap, and starting running around the living room, every few seconds pausing to stand on one foot or twirl like a ballerina. As always, she enjoyed showing off and making me laugh, up until the instant I got the camera ready for filming... Elissa has also recently been singing the alphabet song in Portuguese, and when asked or told to do something that she doesn’t like, she responds adamantly “Nao, nao, obrigada!!” I’m pretty sure she picked this up at a pizza restaurant we ate at recently, as we passed on several pizzas brought around that night. However, she feels it applies when told to put on pants, lay down, sit down, put a toy away, etc., yelling as she runs in the opposite direction.
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