Goodnight Sweetheart! Hello Basil! Eh...Who's Basil???

After much neglect I'm finally going to write a little about my daughter's progress. The little one has been ill this past week. Down with a viral flu...hmmm well can't say she's been down because she's still been her usual self i.e. running and jumping about! In fact on the first day it happened she really talked a lot too! Which is something she rarely does! We think it might have been the medication! LOL She kept talking about everything in between licking up the contents her little runny nose that we had failed to wipe off in time! All kids love doing that don't they! LOL

Well like I said she has been a little slow to talk although she understands perfectly well. And she does pick up words prety fast too. Of course she is still in her inquisitive stage and loves asking Why? What? and Where? repeatedly. What she loves to do is run and play! She can play all day! We have this snake from Ikea (you know the one) that she grabs one end of and then she'll give me the other end and ask me to pull in a little game of tug-a -war! When she tired of that she try spinning it and twisting it and jumping over it and walking on it! I never knew that silly snake had so many uses...we got it for her to hug and that is the only thing she doesn't do with it! LOL

Another thing she loves to to is to be tickled! She used to come up to me and say "Daddy tickle" and I'd be wondering what she wanted until she said "Daddy tickle me" and I gladly obliged! Then she'll say stop and when I do she'll ask to be tickled again. This'll go on for a while...ahhhh my own little tickle me Elmo! LOL

As I was saying earlier she is quick to pick up words...well every night before bed I say to her "Good night Sweetheart" and she'll say good night back until one fine night I hear her say "Good night Sweetheart" back! I almost fell off my chair! You just can't prepare for moments like that! LOL

Finally, the telephone! She usually doesn't like talking on the phone when we call her back! She'll only listen and run away after a while! However, she loves playing pretend with wifey's cellphone and slowly but surely she began to say Hello to no one in particular, sometimes her uncles or aunts or cousins, in her imaginary little way! So you can imagine my shock when one day she said "Hello Basil!" Who the hell was Basil! We don't know anyone named Basil! And she hasn't met anyone named Basil! It's such an uncommon name! So long and hard we thought about who it could be until it fianlly dawned on us! We had been watching a Jamie Oliver show the other day. You can guess where this is going, right? Yup, he was using basil in one of the dishes and our little one somehow remembered it and used it in her little "Hello Basil! We really had a good laugh about that one! I was ready to buy a shotgun...my little one ain't gonna have no boyfriends so soon! LOL

Well that's my little progress report! One day I hope my daughter will be reading this and having a good laugh at her antics just like I am now! Ciao!