BEEBO
While Elsie is learning and trying out new words every day, she also knows more words than we realize or will even say yet. Inspired by Sandra Boynton's Belly Button Book, she has adopted the term "beebo"--hippo shorthand for belly button. She doesn't say it, but if you ask her where her beebo is, she will delight in finding it--on the other side of that big ole belly. Then, she'll sometimes want to see yours which she finds very funny, more funny than we find our big bellies.

And there are other words she knows but doesn't say. If you ask her if she wants to go get the paper, she immediately runs to the front door. And she and Oscar are both bad about the word "park"--she calls out "duckie, duckie" to indicate that she does want to go to the park and must see the duck merry-go-round post-haste--and Oscar runs to the door to spin and spin, ready to lead the way.