Vocabulary

Whew, I haven't been keeping up with the blog very well this month!  There hasn't been anything really unusual going on, just a lot of little things that aren't usually in our schedule.  Things like our monthly foster-adopt support group meeting, a trip to Daniel's school to update his IEP, completing the paperwork and home visit to renew our certification as a state foster family, an actual date! for Tim and me (we went to see a production of The Importance of Being Earnest, which was just as funny as I remembered), snow, a power outage, a planned day off school for Daniel followed by a snow day, and now we're getting ready for a trip to DC.  Okay, now that I look at it, maybe there has been a lot going on in the last couple weeks!

But Esther has been cracking me up with her use of words lately, so I thought I'd take a little time out to record some of my favorites.  She has a great vocabulary, but sometimes her meaning and pronunciation get a little mixed up.  Like the other day when we were playing outside and she called to me in an agitated voice, "Mommy, come quick!  I see something!  It's really scary!!  It's a drug!!"  Wondering what in the world was going on, I went over to see what had her so anxious...and saw a garden-variety (pun intended) slug.  Apparently, the girl who at age two paused in her progress down the sidewalk to pet a spider is no longer a fan of anything faintly creepy-crawly.

Other Esther definitions:

Murder: the stuff you use to stick bricks together

Egg glue: a house built out of snow or ice

Compressed: the way Mommy feels when Esther does something remarkable