New words

A little here about Elisha. He is growing up so fast! He is a crazy, tough, affectionate little fellow. He loves to wrestle and fight with his brothers, yet loves hugs and kisses (when he's in the loving mood and not the fighting mood!)

In less than two months he will turn two. He says new words every day. Today he said "coconut". Can you guess why?? Whenever Halima grinds coconut, he like to sit by her and snitch from the bowl! An if he's lucky, like today, he gets to eat a chunk of coconut that broke out of the shell. People here say that if a child drinks the water from the inside of the coconut, he will speak early. Although we have a few coconut trees in our yard, we've never had enough coconuts to test that theory! It could be true- maybe there is something in the coconut that promotes brain development. Or, it might just be a very popular old wive's tale!

The ground coconut is mixed with water, and then the water is filtered from the coconut meat to make a sweet coconut milk. Then it is used to make curry sauce- on this day, we had a delicious chicken curry!

And on this day, his new word was "gun". oh, little boys!