“io… io…. io”

Monday June 8

Finished “eat, play, love” Pretty good book. Still like the first section and Italy part best but thought the rest was a good read.
Practiced the skooter a lot today since it has been rainy.
I'm enjoying my days around Lignano but am getting pretty anxious to be a little more mobile. Planning on taking the scooter to the bus at the bottom of the mountain. I really don’t like bothering with the bus but I don’t think Alice and Alfonzo are comfortable with me taking off too far yet. I have to get out there sometime with the traffic ! How do you practice for driving out in traffic without actually going out in it? So tomorrow…its time to get out on some main roads! Not that Lignano hasn’t been good practice…winding up the mountain is pretty good practice I think.

"io" is "me" in Italian and EVERYTHING these days is "io, io, io"

I jinxed my sweet little Elia. Not so sweet today. We are definitely getting into the terrible twos stages. I think the terrible twos is basically them not only starting to love the words “ me, me ,me” and “no, no, no” but they start grasping that they don’t HAVE to do what they are told. They fully understand that if they don’t want to do something then you cant MAKE them!

When I first got here, if you slapped Elia on the hand he looked at you in shock and cried. Today he was being really bad…had to slap him on the hand…he just hit me back! I love this kid but I don’t think this experience will much change my outlook on kids. I love to play with them but I love to be able to give them back too! I really am thinking I'm missing the whole “get married and have babies” gene that most girls have. Sorry fam but no grandbabies from this one anytime soon!