new words

The poor quality of this picture is because I took it from the laptop. I wanted to show everyone how much Coop loves his duck. He loves it so much that he now says "duck" along with a few other words, I'll try to put together a list for you. Most of his are not really fully pronounced like an adult would say them like "Dog" sounds like "doh" and he points at Allie. The other words are similar. He is working on getting a long list, and some of them he has said once or twice, but not constantly.

1st word: Hi
2nd word: DaDa
3rd word: Ki-cat
and from there:
Dog
Duck
No No!
Nani
Papa
Mama
Ball
Nana (banana)
Wow!
Yay!
Allie
Oooh, oooh!
Nose (his latest word)

He has said these phrases too:
Hi Dada!
Where's Allie?
All done! (sounds like a-don)
No way!

He is also really getting into pointing and naming things, or having you name them. Lately he has really been pointing at these things a lot:
The 3 cats
the dog
airplanes (a favorite past-time in this beautiful weather)
birds
trees
bushes
grass
cars
balls
shoes
noses
eyes (he actually just pokes them)

A lot of his pointing is to communicate something to us that he wants or needs. I am trying to get him to say those words instead of pointing, but I think this is probably somehow necessary in his development of verbal skills. He will point to his cup, his food if he wants more, his diaper if he needs changing, his tray if he wants something on his high chair's tray, etc. I think all babies do this it's just cool when it's your own!

bye bye dots

Don't freak out. You're still at our blog. We just ditched the dots. If you don't remember that our blog had dots before, then nevermind, nothing changed, don't fret.

Anyway, I'm writing this because I haven't been doing a lot of blogging and it was suggested that I need to do that. And I do. So I am. Not a lot of substance, I know, but that's what you're going to get with me blogging. Lots of non-substance and then a big huge pile of information. I'm not sure what the information will be this time. How exciting that nobody knows yet.

Molly is sitting on Stacy right now and she's just finally given up on her "lick the hands incessantly" routine for a little while. It doesn't matter where your hands go, she wants to lick them and then rub her cheeks and head on the spot she just licked. And she's a hairy cat. And the hair comes off. If you move your hands, she follows them. Put them over your head, and she switches from hand-licking to face licking without hesitation. Then you get tiny delicate little white cat hairs in your nose and they itch like crazy. And who knows where her face has been lately. Cats are always cleaning their fur. With their mouths. They don't stop off at a water fountain every couple hours and swish, gargle, spit. So it's all in there. Yay.

In case you're wondering what the other critters are doing right now, Asher is walking around the floor looking for a good place to see everything. Basco is sitting in the light right next to a big shadow and trying to make sure he doesn't touch the shadow. Allie is staring at me wondering why the TV isn't on. I think the TV isn't on because there isn't anything on Thursday nights until next week. If you're still reading, here's a cookie *chomp* for you. You win. Be sure to leave a comment and tell me what kind of cookie you got. Good night!

consignment sales

I am quickly becoming a consignment sale junkie. With my second boy on the way and the first quickly outgrowing his 12 month clothes, I am like vulture at these sales. Ok, well, I wish I were like a vulture. Those guys get there early, leave last and get the best deals. I am more of the quiet type who wanders the isles, trying to decipher tags and predict my babies growth in the next 3-6 months. This is difficult particularly with one baby in tow and the other safely stored away for later, later like December :)

I am getting better at it. But, today although I came away with some good deals, I now have four 18 month outfits with kaki pants/corduroys. Oops, usually I take stock of what I picked up, consider what I already have and put some stuff back that I decided we don't need. Well, somehow I got distracted by a certain toy (see below), and forgot to go back through my clothing items and put some stuff back. Sorry Ben! I am sure we will use all the kaki's it's just that I went thinking we needed play clothes. I guess this boy will be playing in his kaki's. At least I won't be too concerned about stains. Not with 4 (5 counting what we had in the closet) pairs of kaki's to dirty up!

Here is a pic of the toy that distracted me, Cooper couldn't get enough of it, so I figure with another coming along, we would get good use out of a rocking zebra, don't you think?



If you are out there wondering what sale I went to, it's at the Cool Springs YMCA. I think tomorrow it's half price day, but it's over by noon - I think.