she's walking and talking and meeting ferrets

She's taking more than 5 steps at a time now.
She said "purple" yesterday. We were doing art al fresco and playing with paints. Sofi mixed blue and red to make purple and kept repeating it. And eventually Zara did too.

blue and red make "purple!"

Then today she said "bubble" - grabbing our bottle of bubble solution.

So it's hard to tell purple apart from bubble, but she likes saying them because we explode with applause when she does!

Zara meet ferret. Ferret meet Zara.

In another first, Zara saw her first ferret today. Took her to the pet store. In fact she saw her first medium rat, large rat, mouse, gerbil, guinea pig, turtle and snake. I really need to take her to the zoo soon. She squeals, points, smiles and gets excited when she see an animal.


She also saw her first (and probably last) oversized milkcan sculpture. Well, actually she was asleep. I saw my first oversized milkcan sculpture. After picking up some photos for kindergarten - I took individual shots of all of Sofia's classmate yesterday - Zara and I walked around the downtown park. Four laps = 2 miles! Plus Zara got a heckuva long nap because she napped half way through and then all the way to Jamie's office and to the mall where we eventually grabbed lunch.

art in the park

And one more photo to share. Look what bloomed overnight! One of the day lilies I planted this fall.

blooming lily

And as for kindergarten, I think I can safely say that Sofia really likes her new school. She mentions new friends each day. Who she talks to at lunch and on the bus. Even though she is shy at first, there is social butterfly just dying to break out of her. She tells me what she learns at school. Proudly showing the work she takes home. I wonder if she will also be shy when it comes to raising her hand and answering questions. She is quite soft-spoken and sometimes doesn't get heard. But she definitely tries. That's all I can ask.