We don't have a video camera, and once in awhile I wish I had one, but not too often. One of those times was yesterday--and not so much to record video, but to record the sound of Madeline calling Sophia. It is just so cute!
When it was time to go home from Sharon's yesterday, I put Madeline in her car seat and then as usual we had to wait for Sophia to do something or other before she'd get into the van. I'm always saying something like, 'come and get in the van, Sophia, it's time to go'. Yesterday, Madeline wanted to help, I guess, so she started calling Sophia too. I know this description won't do it justice...
First, you have to imagine a soft little voice, and then draw each of the vowel sounds out for a couple of seconds:
"Bopie" ... "Bopa"
I'm sure the ending sounds are from the "ia" in Sophia, but she only uses them one at a time. Also, there aren't very many sounds in Madeline's vocabulary that are really clear, but in this case the "b" and "p" sounds are clear as a bell, which is even funnier because those sounds aren't part of Sophia's name.
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We have a pet caterpiller right now. Sophia named it Fuzzy and it lives in the bug hut. The bug hut is good because Fuzzy can crawl all the way up and around the screen.
On Sunday morning after staying overnight at the farm, Madeline and I came back to the city while Sophia stayed at the farm with Neil's family. I think Donna (Neil's mom) found the caterpiller and showed it to Sophia. Anyone who knows Sophia knows she loves bugs (actually anything that moves).
So they brought this caterpiller to our house when they brought Sophia home in the afternoon. Sophia likes to hold Fuzzy and let it crawl on her arm, but we've convinced her to keep it in the bug hut most of the time. It seems to be okay. We've given it some new leaves to eat several times. It's amazing how quickly they can eat leaves.
This is actually our second pet caterpiller. The first one was smaller and had no visible hair (Fuzzy has lots of long hair; I'm not sure 'hair' is the right word). It lived in the bug jar for about two weeks in July. We put a stick in the jar that the caterpiller liked to climb, and it ate lots of leaves too. Unfortunately, it didn't survive. I don't know how long Fuzzy will last. Sophia wants it to make a cocoon, and no matter how much we ask her to let it go outside, she refuses.
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Something funny Sophia said to Donna on Sunday:
While stomping her feet, "Grandma, do you know what these shoes do? They don't light up!"
