Papa and YiaYia are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary this year, and they took all the kids and grandkids on a trip to the Bahamas to celebrate!  Of course I couldn’t make the trip without getting sick, so I wound up visiting a clinic for an ear infection and croupy cough.  But I didn’t let that keep me down too much.  I LOVED the aquarium, and can’t stop talking about all the fish I saw there … stingrays, grouper fish, even a scuba man.

At two years three months, I’m undergoing some big developmental changes.  My language skills can’t always keep up with my brain, so I’ll stutter from time to time (“you, you, you saw that, Mama?”)  I’ve also developed a noise sensitivity, and when I’m feeling overwhelmed or tired, I cover my ears with my hands.  One noise I don’t mind, however, is thunder (I call it “under”).  The summer thunderstorms have been rolling through Upstate New York, and there were plenty of them in the Bahamas, too!  I usually laugh with Mommy at the thunder storms, and declare them “not scary.”

In my sweetest moments I’ll run over to the people I love and bring them one of my toys, saying, “something special for you, Dada?”  I like receiving special things too, and one of my favorites is decaf coffee!

Current likes: building pillow forts

Current dislikes: anything excessively noisy