Getting Bigger

Cairo is just getting bigger and bigger. Each day she does something or says something new. Yesterday, as we were sitting on the couch together, we had our first conversation completely lead by Cairo. She started the conversation with, "how did you sleep last night?" When she asked that all I thought was, "what? Did she just ask me that?" From there a whole conversation took place with Cairo doing most of the talking.

Not only is she leading conversations but she is also really developing her language skills. She is learning opposites. If I say up, she says down. If I say front, she says back. She still rarely uses the word "I" and "me," using, instead, the word "my." On top of that, Cairo has been singing and singing and singing. She isn't just singing songs she knows, but she is making up songs and mimicking the songs I sing. I really enjoy hearing her sing herself to sleep with some song she's made up. It is still too soon to see if she will make a good contestant on American Idol, but we can already tell she loves music.

Cairo wants to be a big girl and she wants to do everything that I do. Today, Erik was folding clothes in the living room and Cairo decided that she wanted to dress herself up in my clothes. She was very proud of herself with this outfit she put together... as you can see by the pride in her smile.