G’n'R Out West

So I was thinking I would stop with the monthly updates.  The changes are a bit slower these days so it seemed to make sense.  Of course, as soon as I made that decision I feel like the last few days have been full of changes:

There have been huge changes in the language department.  We’ve finally hit that ’sponge’ stage that everybody talks about.  She copies a lot of what we say now and uses more than one word in a sentence pretty consistently as of about yesterday.  For example, when we go down the slide at the park she nows says ‘ two, go’.  I always say ‘one, two, three, go’.  Two days ago was the first time I ever heard her say two or go…and suddenly she says them together.

She also actually says thank you ‘de do’ (she used to only do the sign), she still signs please, although she can say it as well.  She loves buses and trucks and will always point them out.  She will also point out ‘big trucks’.  She loves to watch people bike and will ask for ‘more bike’ when she has seen a bunch and wishes she was seeing more.  She has been known to call out ‘Hey Greg’…I have no clue where she could have picked that one up!

Some funny ones:  She loves fire and consistently calls it water, no matter how many times we say fire.  The one that really pulls at my heart strings is that today for the very first time she said ‘burrr’ when she saw a bird.  Bird was one of her very first words (although, she called them ‘ga’).  That word was just such a first that it is sad to see it go.  Another funny bird thing is that when she sees them she makes this very loud pretty ridiculous noise, not unlike what you would expect to hear if you saw about 89 hungry crows all calling out at once.  We will see the tiniest little sparrow and she will storm towards it with this big grin yelling ‘caw, caw, caw’.  It is pretty funny for us, and likely terrifying for the sparrow.

 In other news, she decided quite recently that she LOVES the shower and is more than happy to spend as much time in there as possible as long as nobody washes her hair.  FINALLY…bathing is fun. 

And last but not least I made an appointment at the dentist a few weeks back as she was still missing one of her four front bottom teeth.  They were supposed to be all in months ago.  I never thought much of it until we saw a dentist friend that said we must get it x-rayed and then the health nurse said the same thing.  Well, her appointment is Tuesday, and yesterday morning that tooth, along with her 2 first I-teeth poked through!  Too funny, I guess it just needed the threat of a dentist visit to kick it into high gear.  I am VERY glad to report that we don’t have to go to the dentist.

I think that is about it.