...to our blog! Here you will find a look into our life in Beirut - complete with fun pictures, stories, and more than a couple random thoughts. Enjoy!
Isla actually didn’t really start talking a lot until this summer, when her vocab just exploded. Now we can’t get her to stop talking. Like any toddler, she’s had some funny ways of expressing herself, funny pronunciations. Here are my favorites: 10. ”One two fee dubba vee” (when she was learning to count at the [...]
Isla’s favorites from 2011 (in no particular order) 10. Airplanes This child will probably grow up to be a pilot. Her excitement about airplanes leads her to do crazy things, like stay awake for 26 hours straight so as not to miss a minute of going up, flying, going down, running through airports and going [...]
A little over a month ago we realized that if we were going to have any family Christmas traditions, this would be the year to start because Isla will actually remember them. We knew we wanted to do some kind of advent tradition with her, but couldn’t really find anything here – except for those [...]
While we were in the States, Isla’s English just exploded. She went from two, maybe three word phrases to multiple sentences in a row. Since we’ve been back, she’s been picking up a lot of Arabic as well. What’s been really funny to me is Isla doesn’t let me speak any Arabic to her. [...]
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oh! oh! oh! Poor little thing. She said she was “All Done!!”