Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Beatrice Loves Animals

Beatrice really, really likes animals. Her best friends, of course, are the dogs, but she also loved visiting the cats Andromache and Odin at her grandparents' house in Oakland.


Her first word, predictably, was dog, and all of her other words are animal names. She still does not say mama or dada or milk or eat, but she does regularly say dog, cat ("cat-cat"), turtle ("tut-tut"), and goat, and she's said a few more animal words (pig, bird, fish) just once or twice each. We often visit my friend Sarah who has a cat and now even when we're approaching Sarah's house and walking up the front driveway, Beatrice will begin to chant "cat-cat! cat-cat!"




Yesterday we took our visiting friends Sam, Lilli, and Melissa to the Los Angeles Zoo with Beatrice and Beatrice had a wonderful time. Of course she would cry each time we left any one animal enclosure but then she'd cheer up at the next one. It would be hard to pick a favorite, but she did love meerkats, monkeys, flamingos, bears, tigers, and the ocelot ("cat-cat").


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