Lyla Update

Since the previous posts have been about Nina and Kindergarten, I thought I’d give Lyla a little exclusive post.  Lyla might be our resident 3 year old, but she has big ambitions.  She is dying to be scuba girl.  Maybe one day she’ll be a female version of Jacques Cousteau, but for now, she’ll settle on going around the house with her flippers, a snorkel, and a diving mask.  When she’s not playing scuba girl, she can be found raiding her sister’s room, trying to get into the refrigerator or pantry for snacks, or outside riding her bike or scooter.  She’s recently decided that the 3-wheel Razor scooter she was riding was too little kid, so she rides the 2-wheel scooter like all the big kids now.  She’s quite the little daredevil when it comes to trying new things, and we’d say she’s really gotten over her shy phase these days. 

The way she talks is still so cute and the cause of many smiles for Mark and I, but she gets self conscious, so we have to be careful to not make her feel bad.  She substitutes a ‘y’ sound for ever ‘l’ sound, so she’ll say her name is Yy-ya, or she’ll say she wants to read the book about the Yittle Yammie (little lambie).  She also substitues the ‘f’ sound for ‘th’ so one of our favorites was when she was memorizing a verse in Thessalonians (a mouthful already), she called it Fessayonians.  It’s very cute to us though.

She still adores her sister, and loves to play with her most of all.  She’s adjusting well to her new routine too, and even though she misses Nina while she’s at school, I think she’s enjoying a little 1 on 1 time for a few hours.