Because this is our blog, I can write a post which is totally boring to everyone but Tyler and I. And the beauty is that you all can ignore it! Yay! This is one of those posts...
I wanted to do something special to mark Natalie's 18 month birthday. Our friends Todd and Kearsley created the most gorgeous composite of their daughter Maya for her 18 month birthday, but we just don't have Photoshop skills to do anything quite so beautiful *sigh*. However, I am a fast typist and a relatively thorough person, so I decided to create a list of Natalie's vocabulary at 18 months. These are the words she can be reliably expected to say many, many times a day. There are other things she's trying out (thank you, etc.) but she doesn't say these things reliably enough for them to have made the 18 month list.
Names
Mommy
Daddy
See-see (for Reese + all cats)
Nanny (Natalie)
Mafew (Cousin Matthew)
Toys:
Noma (Noah, as in Noah's Ark toy set)
Elmo
Zazie (Zoe)
Maisy
Percy
From Daycare:
Becky
Susie
Def (Stephanie)
Cati (Caroline)
Jassie (Jackson)
Foods/Eating-related
Nummy Nummy (Milk)
Baba (bottle)
Apple
Shaw-bee (Strawberry)
Nana (Banana)
Peas
Juice
All Gone
All Done
Soon (Spoon)
Cupcake
Cookie
Pee-ya (Pizza)
Wawa (Water)
Cawshee (Coffee)
Animals
Dog-dog (dog)
Puppy
Zeebee (zebra)
Dushy (duck)
Birshie (Bird)
Bison
Beah (Bear)
Moo (Cow)
Baw-baw-baw (Chicken)
Piggy
Ah-ah-ah (Monkey)
Fishy
Clothing
Bib
Shoe-shoes (socks)
Sashies (socks)
Haaaa (hat)
Nouns of all shapes and sizes
Paci
Bubble
Seat
Show
Nene (baby, plus could also mean yogurt because the yogurt has a picture of a baby on it)
Baby
Gogo (car)
Tain (train)
Crib
Ball-ball (Ball)
Keys
Bus
Loshy (Lotion)
Teeth
Outside
Various Demands and Phrases
Down
Up, Uppy
More
Again
Night night
Bye-bye
Hi
Hewo (hello)
No
Yes/Yah
Sure
Bless You
Bouncy Bouncy
Splash Splash
:-)
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Fun with Food
A few enjoyable pictures of dinnertime around the Gibbs household. We start off relatively normal:
and quickly progress to kissy-face:
Mom and Natalie cracking up at each other:
A few days later: have I ever told you how absolutely DELICIOUS applesauce is?
Fun on a rainy Saturday:
Have I mentioned that tomorrow is my eighteen-month-birthday?
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A few eighteen month updates:
-Natalie is talking so, so much. She picks up a few new words every day. She gets her point across very well sometimes (who can mistake the very pointed "PACI!!!" while also pointing at the spot on her dresser where the pacis are kept). Other times, she resorts to a sort of frenzied babble which nobody understands but her. Often tantrums follow this frenzied babble, because she gets so mad that I can't figure out what she's saying.
-During the last few weeks, she has really started to get excited about going to play school. Maybe it's because the holidays and the month of January have wound down (trips in November/December, and then January where she was sick so frequently that she couldn't attend play school very much). Or maybe it's because they have started to do some really fun crafts. Whatever it is, now when she sees her friends and the people who work at play school, she screams their names excitedly. She also talks about them at home with me.
-Singing songs continues to be a favorite. We run through the ABCs, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Ring Around the Rosy, etc. - and after I finish a song she yells "AGAIN!" She loves to twirl around in a circle when we sing Ring Around the Rosy.
-The hardest thing about 18 months so far has been her decisiveness regarding when she should and shouldn't be strapped into various apparati (car seat, high chair, stroller). We have had some very stern disagreements about these various issues. Luckily, the high chair argument can frequently be avoided because we have three different seats she can choose between (booster, bumbo, and high chair) - which still gives her a sense of control. The stroller debate has also been ok so far, because walks are optional and otherwise I've been able to carry her. I'm a little worried as my third trimester progresses about being caught somewhere with a stroller tantrum brewing, but she only weighs 23 lbs so really her size is quite manageable for me at this point.
The car seat debate? Don't ask. Just don't ask. It's not good. *sigh*
:-)
and quickly progress to kissy-face:
Mom and Natalie cracking up at each other:
A few days later: have I ever told you how absolutely DELICIOUS applesauce is?
Fun on a rainy Saturday:
Have I mentioned that tomorrow is my eighteen-month-birthday?
---------A few eighteen month updates:
-Natalie is talking so, so much. She picks up a few new words every day. She gets her point across very well sometimes (who can mistake the very pointed "PACI!!!" while also pointing at the spot on her dresser where the pacis are kept). Other times, she resorts to a sort of frenzied babble which nobody understands but her. Often tantrums follow this frenzied babble, because she gets so mad that I can't figure out what she's saying.
-During the last few weeks, she has really started to get excited about going to play school. Maybe it's because the holidays and the month of January have wound down (trips in November/December, and then January where she was sick so frequently that she couldn't attend play school very much). Or maybe it's because they have started to do some really fun crafts. Whatever it is, now when she sees her friends and the people who work at play school, she screams their names excitedly. She also talks about them at home with me.
-Singing songs continues to be a favorite. We run through the ABCs, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Ring Around the Rosy, etc. - and after I finish a song she yells "AGAIN!" She loves to twirl around in a circle when we sing Ring Around the Rosy.
-The hardest thing about 18 months so far has been her decisiveness regarding when she should and shouldn't be strapped into various apparati (car seat, high chair, stroller). We have had some very stern disagreements about these various issues. Luckily, the high chair argument can frequently be avoided because we have three different seats she can choose between (booster, bumbo, and high chair) - which still gives her a sense of control. The stroller debate has also been ok so far, because walks are optional and otherwise I've been able to carry her. I'm a little worried as my third trimester progresses about being caught somewhere with a stroller tantrum brewing, but she only weighs 23 lbs so really her size is quite manageable for me at this point.
The car seat debate? Don't ask. Just don't ask. It's not good. *sigh*
:-)
Monday, February 2, 2009
New Hat!
Natalie got a new hat this weekend, and our camera actually obliged us by taking a few pictures of the occasion!
Mom and Dad are far too proud of this beautiful little (almost) 18-month old.
She had so much fun watching the Super Bowl yesterday. At the start of the game, she settled in on Mom's lap with a cup of milk and a bowl of crackers to watch for five or so minutes. It was like she knew that people all over America were doing the same thing - albeit many with a libation stronger than milk, and a fattier food than crackers! Then her friend Anna arrived, and the tv could have disappeared for all Natalie cared after that point - although both girls really seemed to like Bruce Springsteen's halftime show.
In Baby Boy Gibbs news, we are officially in our third trimester (!!). Tomorrow I will re-encounter all sorts of prickly needles (glucose screening, then a CBC, then a Rhogam shot) at my doctor appointment. BBG has been moving around quite a bit - he especially seems to like it when I sing to Natalie. He was moving all over when I sang "twinkle twinkle little star" this evening (while Natalie rocked her baby doll). I'm glad *one* of us likes my awful singing voice...or, maybe he hates it and wants me to stop? :-)
Mom and Dad are far too proud of this beautiful little (almost) 18-month old.
She had so much fun watching the Super Bowl yesterday. At the start of the game, she settled in on Mom's lap with a cup of milk and a bowl of crackers to watch for five or so minutes. It was like she knew that people all over America were doing the same thing - albeit many with a libation stronger than milk, and a fattier food than crackers! Then her friend Anna arrived, and the tv could have disappeared for all Natalie cared after that point - although both girls really seemed to like Bruce Springsteen's halftime show. In Baby Boy Gibbs news, we are officially in our third trimester (!!). Tomorrow I will re-encounter all sorts of prickly needles (glucose screening, then a CBC, then a Rhogam shot) at my doctor appointment. BBG has been moving around quite a bit - he especially seems to like it when I sing to Natalie. He was moving all over when I sang "twinkle twinkle little star" this evening (while Natalie rocked her baby doll). I'm glad *one* of us likes my awful singing voice...or, maybe he hates it and wants me to stop? :-)
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