Aaaaa-llieeeeee

Allie is definitely getting more active, alert and responsive these days!! Our favorite game to play with her lately is Copycat. We'll hold her facing us so she can see our faces. Then we smile and say her name, "Aaaaaaaa-llieeeeeee," and she almost immediately smiles with her wide-open gummy grin and tries her hardest to do the same thing. The best is when she manages to get her voice to work. Since her mouth is wide open, it actually sounds like she's repeating her name. We've gotten some great "Aaaaaaaaa" sounds from her, and even some baby babble "l" sounds, too. She just loves hearing her name so much and wants to play along and repeat it!

She is also becoming quite the Daddy's girl already. Her first smiles of the day are almost always reserved for her Daddy and Ron's the one who can get her to smile, burp, or calm down the best. But, not to be outdone, Robbie is getting Allie to respond to him quite a bit, too. She follows Robbie around the room with her head and lights up with smiles when he gets down to talk to her and smile at her.


Scottie shows less interest (he is two, after all), but both boys still ask for "shoulder hugs" from Allie everyday. We hear this from both of them each day:

Robbie and/or Scottie: Do you know who I love best?
us: Who?
Robbie and/or Scottie: Allie!

Another favorite is:
Robbie: Allie is a good little girl (he must hear this from us all the time!)
to which Scottie will answer: Yeah, she's not bad!
It cracks us up everytime -- he's so literal!