Frog Hollow

Yesterday Mary and Rebecca tried a new park. It's called Frog Hollow. It's a boundless playground. They have different areas for different ages and special equipment so even kids with disabilities can play. The best part is that the ground under the play equipment is kind of rubbery. So it's a lot safer. Rebecca loved it! They had one area for toddlers. She did it all by herself...climbed stairs, went through the tunnel, went down the slides. She even did the little climbing wall (with Mommy's help:) She loved playing peek-a-boo in the tunnel (it has holes in the sides). The rest of the evening she was saying "peek-a-boo in tunnel." Rebecca also loved being able to run. She just went non-stop. After 45 min. there she was sweaty and her cheeks were bright red. She was having so much fun. We headed home then to cool down and have dinner. Mary and Rebecca are trying to do fun stuff on Thursday afternoons since Justin has class. We have a girls' day then :)

Rebecca is still majorly teething. But she has been sleeping better for the most part. The last few days she has slept until 8! Although she was up for an hour in the night again last night. But we'll take what we can get :) Our dentist gave us some extra toddler toothbrushes so Rebecca is enjoying chewing on those. She can actually reach back far enough with them.

Rebecca is getting very good with her letters. She can now do A-N on her own And adds in a few other letters as well, Q, R, U, V, Y. Mommy repeats the letter after Rebecca says each one, but Rebecca says it first. And yesterday while we were eating dinner Rebecca wanted to sing the ABCs. Since Mary was eating she couldn't sing the whole thing through. She said "A, B, C, D, E, F, G" and paused to chew. And Rebecca immediately chimed in with "H, I." Mary said "J, K, L, M, N, O, P." Rebecca followed with "Q, R." Mary said "Q, R, S." Rebecca said "T, U, V." Mary said "W, X." Rebecca said "Y and Z." Then later in the evening Rebecca also added the "W, X" part. And at bedtime she did "H, I, J, K." I guess she's been listening when we sing the ABCs!

Rebecca is getting better with putting words together too. She is saying 3 and 4 word sentences. And she is starting to add in vowels and conjuctions....so it actually sounds like a full sentence. This morning during breakfast she noticed the balloons on the side of her color book. And Mary said, "right, there are balloons on the side." And Rebecca said "balloons on side." She continues to impress everyone she meets as she repeats everything they say :) Her new favorite word is video. She wants to watch videos of herself on the computer all day long.

She has learned a lot of her shapes. She knows square, circle, triangle, diamond, star and x.

Rebecca loves to color. She wants to do it the moment she wakes up from her nap every day. We continue to have fun and learn new things all the time.

There are new pictures in the September album.