Last Sunday a Couple Hours at the Lake
She watched The Lumberjack* chop up some trees/branches and walked around exploring a little but never to far from Mama.
A Fish In Water
Once we walked on the dock that was the end, I could hardly hold her from jumping in the lake. So barely able to get off her clothes she jumped, cold water and all.
She wanted to walk all around and touch all the rocks and mud... eventually she got a leech on her foot and I had to call it quits!
Dressed Again But Not Happy About It
Breakfast with BB
She refuses to part with BB and Mac when she gets up in the morning... for the past week. This morning I could even get the bear away from the highchair! She's eating eggs, cheese and banana in case you wondered.
Practicing a Little B&E
Our kind friends pasted along some puzzles their kids outgrew. This board has a series of locks on it. We leave it in the bay window to occupy her time when we're eating (and she's done). Then last Sunday we went to Nick's birthday party (8 yrs old, WOW!) where in the go-home-gift-bag was a water pistol. What are the chances she held the pistol correctly and started playing with the locks?! I was lucky to snap a picture.
A Birthday Gift from Aunt Joanne
She opened the gift, sort of, and pulled out a few cute new outfits, a piggy bank, and a few other things.5/27/10 Lulu starts to point when she wants things. Still not talking much, but is using consonants and vowels... not worried, she does have sentence structure mimicking. I can tell she knows a lot of words, and what they mean because I can tell her to look at things or pick something up and she can do it... she doesn't always want to though.
I was making pizza, so rolling the dough and patting/slapping the dough when she was eating in her highchair watching me. Then she stared to make the same patting motions... so I used that opportunity to sing Pat-a-Cake with her. It sure made the song make more sense to me after all these years!
She's such a ham, and will do anything to get a chuckle out of us.
I've been going through the animals on puzzles and pictures/books, etc. Trying to correlate sounds like "Meow, meow, I am pretending to be a kitty." So I was in the dining room with her when I asked, "What does a doggie say?" and she responded "huhuhuhu." LOL, she was panting like our dogs do! Guess they don't bark that much!
5/30/10 We were going to pick up some fence panels in Perham yesterday listening to the radio when a Joe Walsh song came on. Prior to that song she was dancing in her little swaying way and slapping her knee to the beat... but as soon as that song started she started yelling and putting her hands on her head while squeezing her hands from the top of her head to her jawline a few times. I didn't know what was wrong with her until she stuck her 2 index fingers into her ears to plug out the sound. She hates Joe Walsh!
5/31/10 Since Lulu was little I started using some sign language with her, trying to potentially make my life easier. Awhile ago she started to use the sign for finished/all done... but never does more than that sign until this morning. She ate a bunch of food and looked to just be playing with what was left on her tray so I asked her if she was all done... and she used the sign for milk. I thought she may have just confused the signs so I repeated the all done sign with words again... and she signed for milk again. So I gave her milk & she was very pleased with herself!
Later when I was eating she came over to be picked up (trying to get her to sign "up" too) so I picked her up and hugged her saying "I love you" and for the first time she said it back to me. Ok, maybe not in exact letters/words but she used the same syllables and letters very close to I love you since it was unmistakably like it. I then set her on my knee and was talking to her and said "who's at the window" to which she replied "doggie." She's very smart, just doesn't use many words the sinker!
In my effort to stop the running toward my legs and flinging herself whining I am teaching her to say "Up" (with words and sign)... she was giving me nothing! I mean she already points it's not that much different, gesh! So just when I was starting to think she doesn't pay attention to me whatsoever, she flings herself at my legs crying to be picked up and I say & sign UP as I pick her up... then as shes on my hip and immediately stops fussing she then signs UP... or she was pointing at the top shelf my bookcase!? Gez, who knows.
