We also visited the petting zoo at the Western Montana Fair where Salome got to pet various very tame farm animals. Three weeks or so later, and she is still talking about the "aminose". She sometimes just says that word to random people in the grocery store. Then she lists off as many animals as she can think of and their noises.
She has an insane shoe fetish and wants to put on several pairs of shoes each day, and they can belong to her parents too, that's just fine with her. Size is no obstacle. Her pink cowboy boots are 2 or 3 sizes too big, but thats a little more doable than her papa's work boots.
She's 18 months now and she's learning something new and funny every day. She seems to absorb everything, even things I don't even realize. She has learned the colors yellow and red pretty well and loves for me to draw shapes for her, especially suns, and when she scribbles, she says, "Nun!" to show me that she drew a sun too.
Her Papa was gone for almost two weeks in Europe on business and she missed him a lot - when she would pick up a phone to play with and I would ask her who she was calling she said "Baba."
She also misses her aunty Hilly and yells for her a lot, especially when she sees her bike. She pats the seat and says, "Haddy."
