Friday, December 16, 2005
Going to Kansas
Their imaginations could've taken them anywhere when they boarded this train and where did they want to go....Kansas...(destination decided by Hailey, the engineer)
Thursday, December 08, 2005
The fam
Here are some pictures that Mark Jackson took....and I had to journal some stories before I forget....
Sophie's World
Okay, I need to get down the latest Sophie stories before I forget them...
I think she said her first real-live sentence...
She was lying on my lap, looking upside down at a friend of ours who was across the room and she said, "I see you!" Then she proceeded to say it to everyone in the room.
A couple of weeks ago, I was in the shower (enjoying my few minutes of peace) and Anna came to complain about something that Sophie had done. I called to Sophie and she said "Whaaat!"...then she came into the bathroom, pulled back the shower curtain and said, "Whaaat?!?!" The tone is what made it so funny....she sounded like an annoyed teenager.
She's started saying "okay" all the time when we ask her if she wants to do something...it's really cute the way she says it...(really breathy.)
A few days ago, I was trying on a pair of shoes that I was pretty sure were too small for her, but I wanted to make sure. After I had the first one on, she started saying, "Too tight! Too tight! Off! Off!" I thought maybe I was imaging this, so I tried them on her again the next day in front of Stephen (which he thought was really cruel), but I just wanted to make sure that that's really what she said. And as soon as the first one was on, she said it again.
Today in the bath, she kept dropping the soap and when she did she'd say, "white! white!" The soap was white, but maybe she was saying something else, I don't know....(cause she usually says "soap") I think maybe it was just a coincident. I don't think I've ever even mentioned colors to her....of course, I'm not her biggest teacher...she seems to learn most things from watching and imitating her sis.
After our bath, I was holding her in front of the mirror and I said, "Who's that?" She said "Ababelle" and I said "no, Sophie!" She said "Sopie" and then she said, "izabah"....Annabelle is fascinated with middle names and has been calling Sophie "Sophie Elizabeh"....
She's really starting to sing a lot more and she has definite opinions on music...and for the most part, it's pretty good! She can sing "happy birthday" pretty well now and loves singing it to Annabelle and pointing to her on the "to you" part. She also likes "jingle bells" right now...
Okay, I think this is the last one (this is what happens when I wait so long to post)...a couple of days ago at breakfast (she's replaced her morning breastfeeding with "risin bran"...she asks for it first thing....so needless to say I went to Sam's and stocked up on it...if it's good enough to replace boob juice, we need lots of it.) So she was eating her raisin bran and looking at these two X-Mas plates I had bought at the Target $1 section. They are the same shape and colors, but one is a Santa and one is a snowman...she said "snowman" and I said, "yes, that's a snowman..." and she looked at the other one and said, "two snowman!" I don't know...maybe once again it was my imagination...maybe she's just copying her sister cause I really don't think she's counting yet, but I still have to write it down.
I think she said her first real-live sentence...
She was lying on my lap, looking upside down at a friend of ours who was across the room and she said, "I see you!" Then she proceeded to say it to everyone in the room.
A couple of weeks ago, I was in the shower (enjoying my few minutes of peace) and Anna came to complain about something that Sophie had done. I called to Sophie and she said "Whaaat!"...then she came into the bathroom, pulled back the shower curtain and said, "Whaaat?!?!" The tone is what made it so funny....she sounded like an annoyed teenager.
She's started saying "okay" all the time when we ask her if she wants to do something...it's really cute the way she says it...(really breathy.)
A few days ago, I was trying on a pair of shoes that I was pretty sure were too small for her, but I wanted to make sure. After I had the first one on, she started saying, "Too tight! Too tight! Off! Off!" I thought maybe I was imaging this, so I tried them on her again the next day in front of Stephen (which he thought was really cruel), but I just wanted to make sure that that's really what she said. And as soon as the first one was on, she said it again.
Today in the bath, she kept dropping the soap and when she did she'd say, "white! white!" The soap was white, but maybe she was saying something else, I don't know....(cause she usually says "soap") I think maybe it was just a coincident. I don't think I've ever even mentioned colors to her....of course, I'm not her biggest teacher...she seems to learn most things from watching and imitating her sis.
After our bath, I was holding her in front of the mirror and I said, "Who's that?" She said "Ababelle" and I said "no, Sophie!" She said "Sopie" and then she said, "izabah"....Annabelle is fascinated with middle names and has been calling Sophie "Sophie Elizabeh"....
She's really starting to sing a lot more and she has definite opinions on music...and for the most part, it's pretty good! She can sing "happy birthday" pretty well now and loves singing it to Annabelle and pointing to her on the "to you" part. She also likes "jingle bells" right now...
Okay, I think this is the last one (this is what happens when I wait so long to post)...a couple of days ago at breakfast (she's replaced her morning breastfeeding with "risin bran"...she asks for it first thing....so needless to say I went to Sam's and stocked up on it...if it's good enough to replace boob juice, we need lots of it.) So she was eating her raisin bran and looking at these two X-Mas plates I had bought at the Target $1 section. They are the same shape and colors, but one is a Santa and one is a snowman...she said "snowman" and I said, "yes, that's a snowman..." and she looked at the other one and said, "two snowman!" I don't know...maybe once again it was my imagination...maybe she's just copying her sister cause I really don't think she's counting yet, but I still have to write it down.
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Sophie
A couple of weeks ago, I gave the girls some jars and lids to play with. After playing for a while, Sophie started saying "open dat..." Now she says it all the time...when she wants the marker lid off, when she wants to eat my burt's bee lip stuff or when she wants anything off limits!!
Anna at Nana and Pudge's
This was the morning that I picked up Annabelle after she had spent the night with Nana and Pudge. Nana had french braided her hair...she was looking quite grown up.
Nana and Pudge's X-mas house
Annabelle loves Nana and Pudge's "X-mas house."
Here she is admiring the job she did decorating the tree...she hung five metal stars on the same branch...(she was sorting, of course!)
Sophie also got to help and after breaking three or four glass balls (even after our attempts to keep them away from her!), she really got into the "hang" of it...ha!
At one point, Nana and I were in the kitchen and Sophie came up to us and said the same four syllable word over and over...but we could not figure out what it was she was saying...finally, I told her to show me what she was talking about. She grabbed my hand and took me to the tree. She pointed to a branch that had an alligator ornament on it and then we realized she had been saying, "ah e geh er."
Here she is admiring the job she did decorating the tree...she hung five metal stars on the same branch...(she was sorting, of course!)
Sophie also got to help and after breaking three or four glass balls (even after our attempts to keep them away from her!), she really got into the "hang" of it...ha!
At one point, Nana and I were in the kitchen and Sophie came up to us and said the same four syllable word over and over...but we could not figure out what it was she was saying...finally, I told her to show me what she was talking about. She grabbed my hand and took me to the tree. She pointed to a branch that had an alligator ornament on it and then we realized she had been saying, "ah e geh er."
Another Annaplane
I put Anna down for a nap a little while ago. After a couple of minutes, she called me in there to show me her airplane. Unfortunately, it's on the magna doodle...so I quickly snatched it up and took a picture before she had a chance to erase it (she likes to do this when we make a big fuss about something she has drawn...she thinks it's funny to see our disappointment!) Anways, I gave it back to her and took a couple of more pictures...I think she was happy to pose...and quite proud of her masterpiece!
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Saturday, December 03, 2005
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