The Tonoli's

The other night, relaxing on the couch in the lounge, Leia went to go stand by Ricky’s feet and said “Piggy! Piggy! Home! Piggy!”, wiggeling each toe as she said a word and then went “Wee! Wee! Wee!” up the leg to tickle Ricky in his ribs! It was the sweetest thing! Out of her [...]

I’ve been doing frogs with Miya for the past while as a homeschool theme and of course, Leia hangs around and when there are crafts to make, she joins in and she listens to stories and so on, but exactly *how* much she takes in, completely flabbergasted me… Last night, while going through a little [...]

Miya just reminded me this afternoon, as I got their bath ready that Leia used to call a bath a bab. Now, grown up so quickly and with a fantabulistically amazing vocabulary and pronunciation (for a not even two year old), she says it almost too correctly: “Mommy, Leia bath now, okay?” “Okay”

Leia, where is your panties? “Ayu dun kneow” (I don’t know)

Today, when Rick came home, I started telling him about our day and got to “And at swimming today…” and then Leia took over with “Tswim tswim, Daddy!” accented with swimming hand gestures, followed by “Og! Leia tswimming, schloop (slurping noise while mimicking drinking water with bowed head). Tummy sore (pats tummy). Bleargh (throw-up/burpy sound [...]