Nov. 12, 2009 K's Vocabulary Update
up-f-f-f-f (pronounced with lots of spit.)
dow' (down)
Hi
Bye
Momma, Dada
Mommy (seems to be a verb, not my name, she calls DH Mommy if she wants him to pick her up)
Ben
'Thew, 'Atty (Matthew)
Dolly
Duck
Doggy
Kiki (the neighbor's cat)
side (her side, and outside)
GO!
Whee!
ch' (cheese)
rairai (raisins)
mik (milk)
some
shoe-ies (she loves her shoes, she plays with them a lot, they even have a theme song)
NO - said lots of ways.
bed - often said in connection with NO
sad - often mentioned in connection with bed and NO
baby - as in baby sad.
cry - baby cry momma - said very reproachfully when NO bed doesn't work.
eye (especially when the sun is in her eyes as we are driving)
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Nov. 8, 2009 Our First Conversation
K was very fussy last night. I asked her almost teasingly, "K, what is the matter."
She calmed down immediately and enunciated carefully, "Mamma, Goo."
"Goo?" I asked
"Goo." she replied.
"Is your diaper poopy?" I guessed.
"Goo."
I picked her up from her crib, checked her diaper, and while it wasn't poopy, it was very, very wet.
"Dan!" I called DH, "She talked to me!"
Well, you know, talked, sorta kinda...better than crying.
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Oct. 29, 2009 Pretty Dress from Aunt M
k enjoyed her new dress, she swirled  and played with her hair band, until it would not stay up anymore. I don't have a head band head either. |
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Oct. 28, 2009 Ominous New Vocabulary Oct. 21, 2009 Someone at the Zoo has a Weird Sense of Humor Oct. 9, 2009 What's a Girl Got to Do around here to get a Snack? Sep. 28, 2009 Saying "Hi" to the "Anti-Matter Baby," As her oldest brother calls it. Sep. 17, 2009 Blanket Protocol
K has some funny procedures. Today she was crying in the beginning of nap time, not
settling down. I picked her up and asked her if she still wanted to
nurse (we'd been interrupted by the phone) she shook her head, and
pointed to her blanket on the floor. I picked it up and then she pointed
to the chair - nursing doesn't count unless there is a snuggly blanket
too apparently, my numb brain remembered at that point that she'd done
the same thing at 2AM this morning.
Yesterday I came in after nap time
to pick her up from her crib, and she shook her head. I said, you want
to stay in your crib? She threw out her blankets one at a time with a
repeat of the conversation, then threw up her arms like a gymnast at the
end of a routine to be picked up.
Well, at least little Miss No Schedule is getting a rhythm somewhere in
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Sep. 10, 2009 K's Words and Onomatopia
 Daddy!
Mama
M- -(first time ever this morning)
'en (At least I think I've heard her say his name, she's not big on Consonants.)
Kiki (the neighbor's cat)
Goggie (any animal, but usually a dog)
see
read (yesterday she pointed to her book shelf, shoved me towards the reading chair and said, "See? Read?")
go ou'side
See flow'r
See ga'den
dow'n (Daddy taught her that yesterday, she used it a lot on the slides)
Googie (anything yummy, including nursing)
cookie
Ow!
Yeah
wee!
Hi
Bye
huggie (the noun form of hug, not the diaper. The question, "Do you need a new diaper?" is met by a run behind some furniture.)
I've hear her say once or twice "Pitty gul?" when I'd put something in her hair, and "mik for K- -?" when I filled a sippy cup. But those are once in a while parroting kind of things.
Yesterday she was in her high chair eating cheerios when I dictated the multi phonogram reference page for the boys SWRspelling notebooks. She said some of the phonograms too.
 Of course, whacking Daddy on the knee with the book you want him to read you works too.
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Sep. 2, 2009 Why K went through 4 outfits today
First there was the cute striped shirt and red jeans, the perfect outfit for exploring a jar of vasoline, with feet, hands,  and mouth? No wonder K looks distressed. A second before DH took the picture, she was in "Oh look at this!" mode. By the time the camera went off, she must have tasted it.
 I have not yet checked to see if the detergent took it out of that load of laundry yet. Haven't even addressed the carpet yet, really cute, really oily footprints.
 The blue dress lasted through the book session, but Mom could not find a bib, so the pbj did it in at lunch.
 After nap, the visiting friend's brownies (and accidentally on purpose milk geyser) did in the green tee shirt and white capris (worn too briefly to be photographed), the red dress was just discarded just now, in a dress/undress experiment. The vasoline in the hair makes the clip stay in easier, though it does looks wonky.
 But Boy is her skin soft . |
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Aug. 29, 2009 What has K been up to?
 Showing grandma how she brushes her teeth while looking at the ceiling fan,
 Climbing into the spinny chair in hopes that M or B will spin her (either that or trying to see what is so engrossing about the computer that all the other members of the family know and she doesn't)
 and trying to play ball with the globe.
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Aug. 14, 2009 Raisen Daddy?
K is back to her usual cheery self this week, I realized that last week she must have had the cold that M does now. It's affecting his eye, so he wakes up with it really puffy and sticky (poor kid!) I'm relieved to put a reason on the grumps, other than heat and humidity, I'd much rather it be something passing than a developmental stage we all have to wait out (or temperature drop)
 So we probably won't get to visit with my cousins today as sunny baby B doesn't need this cold - why do my kids always get sick when we are about to visit with relatives?
 Back to fun things, K enjoyed feeding me and Daddy raisens this morning at breakfast, it's fun to share!
 And Daddy bought her more hair accessories. M calls this hairstyle "flower missile." and DH calls it the "hair geyser." He says he is going to wind up like Matthew Cuthbert buying puffed sleeves.
Well, K looks good in puffs.
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Jul. 29, 2009 How to Watch The Wiggles
This is a big deal for K. She doesn't speak much, so how does she get to watch her favorite video? This is a good season for it, Mommy can't do much, and there are other grown ups around who might not all have told each other how many times she's seen it before in one day...
This is her procedure:
1 Pick up the video case
2 Choose a likely adult
3 Smile engagingly at them, then whack them on the leg with the video case.
4 If they don't seem to get the message, walk to the hallway and motion to the living room door.
5 If they are already in the living room, pat the futon so they sit down, then push random buttons on the TV, dancing might give them the idea too. Repeat step 3 if necessary.
6 If that doesn't work, try another adult, or maybe your brothers, they know how to work the TV!
She sure understands the parable of the widow and the unjust judge.
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Jun. 23, 2009 The Engineer's Daughter and the Flashlight Jun. 23, 2009 How to Eat a PBJ
| The blue jays around here are becoming more aggressive than usual. Maybe they are nesting? Whenever the neighbor to the South's cat Smoky is outside, they call for other birds to come and 'mob,' them. K's favorite cat is the Eastern neighbor's cat, Ki Ki. Not only do the jays call for mobbing with Ki Ki, but they dive bomb him themselves. (He often takes refuge in the budlea in our yard when this happens.) I'm not sure If K is associating the jay call with Ki Ki, or (more probably) that she is using new words for 'cute animal' now that she has a few more words than just 'goggy,' but this morning she asked to see out the window to look at Ki Ki when she heard the blue jays calling. |
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Jun. 8, 2009 DH's portraits of the kids
I was poky Sunday morning getting ready for church, which gave DH time to take pictures.
 Don't you love the great hand me down clothes continuum? It's the good stuff that stands up to wear and gets passed down.
 K has my mother's eyes. I think her face has her Mommom's shape.
 I need to weed the peonies.
 Great photos DH, and you did a good job on the boy's hair cuts too.
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Jun. 8, 2009 Sunday Afternoon at the Zoo
The Capron Park Zoo has added a "Splash Pad," for the very hot kids.
 The water gets used three times; first the kids cool off, then it drains into the pond, then that gets used at 3AM to water the park lawns.
While the boys got very, very wet, and I improvised to get them comfortable again (I bought them a new towel, but M had to keep his wet pants on, when I packed him a change of clothes, I dropped his clean shorts!) K, grandma and Daddy explored the zoo.
She loved the bubble machine near the hornbills
She danced in the pavilion near the ocilots, to the Latin music from the speakers, she ran across the bridge on the pond to see the lemer islands, she watched the otters for half an hour proclaiming, "See goggy?" to the crowd, and she was ready to go to bed early when it was all over.
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 After her snuggle and nursing, the first thing K asks in the morning is, "See Goggy? See gar'en?" She loves to sit in her high chair, and look out the window. Apparently, anything cute and little that moves is a goggy, but people and yummy food are gootta. Yesterday at the zoo, the otters and ocilots were goggies, much to the surprise of a 3 year old boy who patiently corrected her, "No, it's an otter," each time she pointed the otters out to the crowd.
 Nothing daunted, she continued to squeal at their antics, and invite the crowd to "See goggy?"
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Jun. 8, 2009 Not just Shoes, but purses too
K loves purses. Here I bought time to blog by letting her investigate mine.
 I need to get a photo of the quilted purse my mom made for K. But I do have pictures of the new brown velvet one from Aunt M, with a headband.
    She would put her headband on, then ask,"Pitty gul?"
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