Tea Set

Stirring the tea

Feeding some to baby

Having some tea for herself

Giving baby the rest of her cup

All of the friends at the tea party

I got out the plastic tea set that I had gotten (used) from someone several months ago. Emily has been "feeding" her stuffed animals a lot lately and has been fake feeding everyone for months. She loved the tea set and right away practiced pouring tea and serving it to her stuffed friends. The tea set was first brought out on Thursday afternoon and it has gotten a lot of use the rest of the weekend, it is definitely Emily's new favorite. She is starting to get very into some pretend play which is a lot of fun. And she loves babies. Any baby that she can spot in a picture, in a book, or when we are out gets pointed out very excitedly.

On Friday after Emily and I got home, she was sitting in her high chair having a snack and I sat at the table next to her. She was talking and talking and I wasn't catching most of what she was saying. Then it dawned on me, she was singing "Ashes, ashes, all fall down." She had learned Ring Around the Rosy at her sitter's house and was singing it! This was the first time that something that had happened during the day she had been able to "tell" us about in the afternoon. Big milestone for us. I sang the whole song to her and her eyes lit up like, "What??? You know this too???" We sang it and did the motions all weekend. It's her new favorite and she will randomly start singing the ashes part all the time.

This week Emily has been using sentences a lot. She still talks some gibberish, but a lot of what she says is in multi word sentences. We still don't understand all of it, and I seem to understand more of what she says than anybody else, but she is using a lot of sentences. She has been using sentences before this, but this week we feel like we've seen a big change from solo or 2 words together into more sentences than anything else.