Maggie has a new obsession: the alphabet song. "Alphabet again" is what we hear more than any other phrase (except maybe for "Love you Mommy" or "Love you Daddy" which we tell her to say a lot). On our hike up to the meadow yesterday we sang the ABC's so many times, gasping and wheezing, belting out letters in between breaths, we eventually just started laughing. Which Maggie thought was also pretty funny, so now she laughs when we sing it. And it's a social laugh too, not a "I think this is funny" laugh, but a "you think this is funny, ha ha" laugh. (Isn't that interesting; she's learned already to laugh when other people laugh even if you don't understand why.) By the end of the trek, she was saying every third letter or so, and fudging the others pretty well. Now she's starting to fill in the gaps. This girl is hungry for learning. And she makes a mean banana bread too.
