Skype Practice

What we learned tonight, practicing Skype from my parents' house with Daddy at home: It doesn't work very well to ask a 2 year old things like "What did you do today?" or "How was your birthday party?" But it works wonders to have the kiddo feed her daddy a toy sandwich from her play kitchen and have him lean forward into the camera to bite it, or puff up his cheeks and have her use her hands to virtually pop them. She laughed and laughed!

Miranda was a champ in the car, laughing and squealing at who knows what in the backseat, as long as I kept the Laurie Berkner CD going. (Ah, how wonderful, I will have TWO WEEKS of not hearing a single Laurie Berkner song!) She made it the whole 7 hours without a single complaint. At every rest stop she asked hopefully, "Opa?" which means to me that she is really comprehending quite a bit these days. This week she started talking in two word combinations with quite an abrupt start. Now I hear all day long: two binkies, big truck, stay out, No Mama, more please, my shoe. What will happen in 17 days without us? Will we come home to full sentences?

We asked her the other day at the dinner table, "Where will Phoebe sit?" She thought for a second, then moved herself all the way over to the edge of the massive medical textbook she sits on for meals. She patted the seat next to her and said, "Phoebe!" Very good, Miranda.