ABC

Lily loves letters. She will now read the letters she sees on everything...books, magazines, billboards, wall signs, etc. It's really cool to see how she is starting to realize all these letters go together to form a word which represents something she recognizes. I attribute a lot of this to her love of books; that is always a favorite past time of hers. However, she also has this really neat ABC wall hanging in her room. You know how much Ryan and I love to travel, so when we found a colorful ABC board that listed a city around the world on it, we knew we had to get it; we bought it before preparing her "big girl" room, so thankfully it worked nicely in there. Here's a picture of what it looks like.

Every night before bed, Lily likes to go over all the letters, their cities and the corresponding painted pictures. I was a little surprised last night when I said "B is for Bangkok and they have some elephants there" (the picture is of someone riding an elephant). She said "Yes but elephant starts with E not B." Also, for a couple of days now, she has gotten pretty excited thinking about Rio de Janeiro (she wants to watch the Carnival parades) and Xi'an (she wants to see the big panda bears upclose). She always says "we'll go real soon, okay? Mommy, Lily, Daddy and Mia will all go real soon." You can see her pointing to the panda bear in Xi'an in the picture below. She also thinks it is really neat that Jesus and Meme have both been to Jerusalem. It appears we have already gotten the travel bug to bite her...now to start working on Mia!