My computer is in the shop. It's a sad day, but it had to happen...so I'm without it for a week or so. I did have a few things I wanted to post about, mostly Matthew and Anna's latest hi-jinks (isn't that ALL I ever post about?) but all my pictures are on my computer and I don't really feel like putting them on my parents computer today (which is what I'm using now), so here's one from my parents stash. This one is from Coeur D'Alene from our vacation in August.
And to go with the pic, the latest Anna-isms:Anna's vocabulary is growing and growing. She can say I'm sorry...which some grown ups can't do. She mostly says it after she hears someone else say it. She has also been able to say "more" for a while now as a signal that she'd like more food. She says it like Mr. Bumble in the movie Oliver when Oliver asks for more gruel. Her voice goes really high at the end. It cracks me up. She does it because that's how I say it sometimes when we're joking around. And now Matthew says it that way too. So we're all screeching "MOOOORRE?" at the dinner table and laughing about it. It's all very civilized.
Here are a few of her words...Mommy, Daddy
Mash-you - Matthew
Anna
Bumpa - Grandpa
Mimi or Gammaw - Grandma
Hi, Bye, Night night
Down, More (MOOOORRE?)
Brush - Toothbrush
Rock
Ducky - Duck
Duggy - Dog
Doddy - Dolly (those last three sort of run together)
Walk
Baby
Shoe
Dee - Drink
Saw - Strawberry (it's a hard word)
Chee - Cheese
Dat - That
Book
Cup
Ball
Eye - (she likes to say this while poking someone in the eye)
Beep - the nose beeping sound
Moo - what the cow says (more of a sound than a word, I know)
Wuh wuh - what the dog says
Yesh! - Yes
and of course
NO! which is probably her most frequently used word.
She likes to use it in threes ("NO NO! NO!!")
And her first sentence (I think):
"I sorry"
Is it a bad sign that her first sentence is I'm sorry?
She also seems to find ways to communicate with us even when she doesn't know the words.
On Sunday Anna hustled over to my mom, clearly on a mission, and started jabbering frantically at her and gesturing. Trying to understand what she wanted, my mom followed Anna over to the piano. Anna kept jabbering to my mom and pointing and gesturing to the piano, but we still couldn't figure it out. Finally she took her index finger and started tapping it on the piano bench as if hitting the piano keys and, in her best singing voice, said "DO DO DO."
Apparently she wanted my mom to sit and sing and play the piano with her, as she sometimes does. So my mom did, much to Anna's delight. It was funny how Anna acted out the piano playing complete with singing when we couldn't figure out what she wanted. I was impressed. :)
Apparently she wanted my mom to sit and sing and play the piano with her, as she sometimes does. So my mom did, much to Anna's delight. It was funny how Anna acted out the piano playing complete with singing when we couldn't figure out what she wanted. I was impressed. :)
2 comments:
MOOOORE?! SO cute, seriously these last couple of posts about your kids just make me want to squish them, in a loving way of course. What an adorable moment, for Anna to ask your mom to play and sing with her. Don't you wish you could just pack these little moments up in a box so you could take them out and look at them and hold them whenever you want? I guess that's part of what we're doing when we blog. Anyway, your kids are cute!
The kids are so cute. I'm impressed Anna is talking so much! I can't wait until Andrew starts talking and stops crying. BTW, Gavin has also asked me to stop singing and the turn the radio off in the car. Hopefully this is just a stage thing and nothing personal!
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