oh wait..it's just Elana
Published on February 28, 2005 By trina_p In Home & Family

Elana has started doing this really odd thing, I think I've mentioned how she goes up to her bedroom and comes back with her dummy. If I haven't she has this habit of kinda stopping whatever it was she was doing like a light bulb has gone off in her head and she's like "oh someting missing" she stops what she's doing and runs up to her bedroom (or the hallway/playroom) and comes back with her dummy firmly planted in her mouth and goes back to whatever if was she was doing before.

I've mentioned that before right?

Have I mentioned the odd fascination she has with her shoes, how she won't let us take them off her feet and when they do come off she goes and gets them and acrries them around with her. Like the time she screamed, squealed cried and yelled because she couldn't reach one of the shoes that was on the bed and when I gave it to her she giggled and delight and sat down in the hallway with the two shoes tryingto put them on her feet?
Well this morning she had her shoes and was banging them on the coffee table - yes the glass one that she tries to take a bite out of.

But the really odd thing is her new Linus from peanuts impression. Where she will RUN up to her room and come out with not her dummy (she's already got that) not her shoes (they're just over there were she left them to go play with that red bock) but her pink bunny rug. She runs up to her bedroom and pulls her pink bunny rug out of her cot and lays it down on the floor of the hallway and get this

She lays down

Yes she puts her bunny rug on the hallway floor and lays down on it - on her tummy kicking her legs - then after a few minutes she gets up and moves on to the next thing.

She's done this four or five times in the last week. Mummy puts it away and makes her bed and Elana removes the blanket and leave it in the hallway. Infact it's laying in the hallway right now - Elana is in the playroom creating havoc with blocks and her pink bunny rug is laying in the hallway. And I don't really understand it. She has a carebears flip out couch she could lay on if she wanted too. She could even bring the bunny rug and lay near the desk/tv/couch but instead she lays down in the middle of the hallway I don't get it but it's Hilarious (and really cute)

**she just came out of the playroom and laydown on her rug, then she sat up and wrapped it around herself, then she stood up with rug in hand and toddled over to me where she placed the rug on my lap, then she took it off me lay it on the floor beside me and put her head on it then she got up walked away with the rug dropped it behind me and is now sitting about a metre away from me and the rug playing with her toes and a spoon.

Comments
on Feb 28, 2005
Go Elana, make the big person give you your shoes and enjoy that blanket. It's what they are there for
on Feb 28, 2005
I swear I want to remove the batteries from that piano!
on Mar 01, 2005
As she doesn't do her Lucy from Peanuts impression....Lucy was a cow.
on Mar 01, 2005
i liked the peanut with the fluffy blonde hair... probably because she was pretty. and of course snoopy and woodstock.

she's so cute!!
on Mar 01, 2005
There were pretty peanuts?!?!?! - I think you're talking about Sally (Charlie Brown's sister)

Lucy wasn't a cow -she was a realist. She's misunderstood

Elana alternates between Linus (blanket) and Schroder (piano) -- The Schroader moments drive me crazy because she's got a defective piano - it plays when there's no body in the room and sometimes the wrong instrument plays - like you press the guitar button and the castanets play -- it's weird and annoying but she LOVES it.
on Mar 02, 2005
yeah probably, she was younger than all the others.

hehehe do you think the piano's possessed? my cousin has something like that (not quite as cool looking as elana's) that will just begin playing a tune when you haven't even touched it. it's scary!!
on Mar 02, 2005
No because it works on vibrations - like if you walk past it or bang on the wall or clap loudly.

As for the defectiveness of it - I can't explain - it's not a reputable brand - it wasn't really expensive as far as baby toys go ($35?) - it's just really odd to press the trumpet and hear cymbals. The thing that spins with the record/dj mixer is cool though but I hate the automated tunes it plays

It has 3 settings with 3 tunes each Classical, Rock & Roll and Reggae/Latin -- and the classical has been known to just play by itself ot when you press either r&r or latin -- It might be possessed
on Mar 03, 2005
She is such a little character! I nannied for a little girl who loved her shoes too. She would have to have them right next to her when we took them off for nap time or she would throw a royal fit.