Our Little Talker

It's been over a month since we last posted (sorry about that). Lydah's personality continues to blossom. Just today she was playing with her friend Thomas and being really silly. She noticed that I was watching her and I could swear that she gave me an embarrassed little smile. She now enjoys performing for an audience. She likes to pretend she is a ballerina (which means standing on one leg), "being sweet" (putting her head on her shoulder and giving an ingenuous smile), and making sounds like "how a snakes goes." She loves to scream "ball" every time she sees anything remotely spherical. And she can be heard walking around the house whispering "daddy" under her breath -- we have no idea why. She understands things like "Get your shoes," "We're going outside" (she always echoes with a "sie" = "outside"), "It's time to take a bath," and "Use a nice voice."

Last weekend we took a quick trip to Illinois so there are a few pictures from that time away.

Lydah was playing with Grandpa and she had just sneezed before I took this picture.
Lydah has always thought sneezes are hysterical.

Grandma came for a visit during Lydah's bout with pneumonia. (Thanks, Grandma!)
Here they are getting some fresh air in none other than Keene, KY.

Our neighbors from Benin looked so good after church one day, we just had to take a picture.
Pictured: Mathieu and Crystel with their daughter, Lydia.