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1) Driving home (from church, I think) Elena looks out over the side of the bridge, across the train tracks, and says "There's our new home!"

"Our new home? Where?"

"Our new home in Ostricha." Then she points at our apartment, that we just pulled up to, and says "See? It's our new home. In Ostricha."

2) Joseph has suddenly started using words. They're still very simple words, but he says bear ("bur" as opposed to bird, which is "ber"), spoon (all eating utensils are "poo(n)"), train ("fren"), eye ("ah"), nose ("no"), cheek ("teek"), Elena (using a marker he's not supposed to have: "Where did you get that?" "ah-mehna!"), and dog ("dok"). All this supplements his previous vocabulary, which consisted entirely of Mommy ("mama"), Daddy ("dada"), ball ("bah!!!") and banana (oops! "nena" is the usual pronunciation of Elena--banana is "nahnah").