Say What?

I have NO idea what AnnaBeth is saying here but it must be important since she keeps repeating it. And when I played the video back to her, she was talking back to the video, saying the same thing and getting even more excited than she does in the video.

Smarty Pants

Yesterday I stopped at a consignment store in search of an umbrella stroller. I found just what I was looking for and got it for only $18! I don't think this particular model is sold anymore but I'm pretty sure it was probably around $50 or $60 new. I found another steal while I was there too...a jumbo stuffed Tigger for only $5!! AnnaBeth saw him, said "ooooh!" and I just couldn't resist. Especially for the price :)

Aren't they just SO cute together? Today I got some video of AnnaBeth pointing out a bunch of things in one of her books as well as her demonstrating some animal sounds and saying a few things.

So excited!!

So AnnaBeth just LOVES her Tia YaYa (Laura) and these quick videos prove it! In other news, she's added baseball and apple to her vocabulary. She attempted "lobster" today and it came out as "lala" so good enough I suppose :) And last week, she was "reading" her Curious George book and while doing so, pointed to a girl and said "guh" (or maybe it was "gil")...either way, she totally amazed me! The other day, while reading the same book, I asked her to show me the girl in the red dress and the mommy in the blue dress and SHE DID! I'm so proud of my smart girl!

4th of July

For the holiday weekend, AnnaBeth and I did a lot of hanging around the house playing, reading and napping. We did make it over to my parents to go swimming and my dad grilled a whole bunch of yummy food. Kent was feverishly welding muffler/exhaust systems for Porsche Boxster Spec race cars all of last weekend and wasn't able to join us :( We decided to skip fireworks this year as AnnaBeth would have just wanted to run around and we didn't feel like running after her in the heat with a bunch of people around. Maybe next year though. Enjoy the slideshow!

Quick Scrap

I finally figured out what to do for our Dads for Father's Day...I created a scrap page that I'll print out and frame. I cheated and made the same one (it's 11pm and I'm tired!). I did something similar for our Moms for Mother's Day but I actually made theirs :)

Daredevil or dancer?

AnnaBeth enjoys practicing her advanced balancing skills. She will stand in her rocking chair (holding on to the arms but still having to balance herself so she doesn't fall) and likes to stand on her little red ride on car or her quad.

I played with this one in photoshop :)

And here she is practicing her fitness orb bouncing skills :)

15 Months

I took AnnaBeth to her 15 month appointment last week and our little girl continues to grow, well, smaller. Or so it seems based on the charts. She's a wee 20 lbs which puts her in the 10th percentile (down from 15% at her 1 year appointment) and she's now 30 in (now at 30%-down from 40% at 1 year). She may be small but our petite little girl has a big brain! Given what she knows (I'll list them below), she's developmentally 18 months old. Yep, 3 months ahead, which means life will be a little more challenging because she knows what she wants but doesn't have the verbal skills to express it. That means we'll get a lot of her throwing herself on the floor in frustration (been happening for awhile) and meals will be challenging (duh, this isn't new) because she surely knows what she likes and doesn't like. Her doctor also told us to expect her to start jumping off things around 18 months (it typically starts happening around 2 years old). Anyway, here's what our girl knows!

Words (not all are pronounced well or even all that close to the real word but we still know what she's saying)

hi, bye bye, all done, Jacob, tickle, uh oh, what's this/that, I did it (usually just "did it"), again, Nana, Papa, Mama, Dada/Daddy, YaYa (for Laura), want some, bath, banana, up, down (sometimes uses "want" with it), off, two, Tigger, shoes, more, turtle, and stinky. Sometimes it sounds like she's saying dog and cat.

Animal noises (again, not perfect but we get the idea)

dog, sheep, cow, horse, bird, snake, bumble bee, car (ok, so not an animal but still a sound). Sometimes she attempts a cat sound and I think I heard her making an owl sound today.

Body parts

she knows where her: eyes, ears, hair, nose, mouth, feet/toes, legs, belly button, and hands are.

Tasks

she can wash her hair, brush her teeth, drink from a straw, drink from a cup without a lid (although sometimes gets a little too excited and spills it all over), and now holds crayons and attempts to color.

Objects

when looking at books, she almost always successfully points out: dog, cat, flower, cow, horse, sheep, mouse, butterfly, Curious George, shoes, baby, ball, bath, fish, snake, bird, monkey, car, duck, fire truck, giraffe, donkey, lion, tiger, teddy bear, and frog.