a bit about aiyana

some things you might not know about nani:

favorite color:
she's beginning to favor the color PINK
when i offered her a bowl of strawberries in a blue bowl, she LOUDLY protested "NO!"
then, she went to her drawer, chose a PINK bowl, and brought it to me.
I said: "Did you want a pink bowl?"
she nodded, smiled, and said, "Pink".
today, she again showed preference for a pink cup at breakfast.

i thought she was leaning toward the color GREEN, since she can identify the green trees in the book. She is also beginning to identify other colors when we ask her to "point to the blue", "point to the red", etc.

favorite celebrity:
elmo!!!
now, this is a little surprising since she doesn't/didn't watch TV. However, her friend, Parker, LOVES "Mo" and has "Mo" toys and a DVD. Aiyana carries the DVD case around and says, "watch elmo. watch elmo".
Well, Nani now has her own "Mo" DVD's which she watches a little bit at a time, mostly when there is housecleaning to be done.
AND, most sweetly, Daddy bought her a cute pair of elmo pajamas which she WILL NOT let go of! She didn't even want to let go of the pants so we could put them on her! (pj picture coming soon)
elmo has influenced nani in one other way. She has developed an attachment to her blankets. We watch "Elmo in Grouchland" in which Elmo loses his beloved blanket and spends the movie singing about and chasing his blanket.
Since watching Elmo with his blanket, Nani is dragging her blanket out her bed with her and around the house. She plays games with her blanket (like "peek-a-boo" and "cover-my-head-and-walk-around-crashing-into-things" -- that game's pretty funny!) Last night, she covered her potty seat with her blanket and sat down on it. That was wierd.