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Words Update

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Last night, during dinner, Tim called Edzèa a “wacko” as she was goofing around. She looked at him and said “wacko” right back. We all laughed so hard that she did it a few more times for effect.

So here’s a brief update of new things I can remember that she says now. I’m way behind on the list and every day she says more.

She has dolls that she dresses up and yesterday came to me and said “naked”. She repeats this a lot as she gets laughs from this one too. We tell her that when it is bath time she is “naked” so “naked” is also a new favourite word.

  1. Turkey
  2. Pumpkin
  3. Downstairs
  4. Upstairs
  5. Jacket on
  6. Hat on
  7. Boots on
  8. Lots of “ing” words-she’s added these to her list of most verbs ie. eating, walking, running,
  9. playing, sleeping
  10. Phrases like: Mommy put hat on
  11. Zaya potty too
  12. She adds “too” to lots of phrases
  13. Zaya too
  14. Couch
  15. Table
  16. Rice
  17. Grapes
  18. Clothes
  19. Off/on
  20. In/Out
  21. Counting: up to Ten (she repeats after you but can’t do five or seven very well)
  22. Wake up-like this week she wanted Bruce to wake up each morning
  23. Drums
  24. Kiss
  25. Sorry (she can’t say “s” at the beginning of words yet though)
  26. What’s That?
  27. See ya
  28. Fork
  29. Tea Party
  30. Go Home (Zaya go home)
  31. House
  32. Names of all of her friends almost perfectly: Haydon, Natalie, Mackenzie (Menzie) , Dylan (Din), Georgia
  33. Kids

The big jump in the past two weeks has been her ability and attempts to sing the songs she knows with us: Frere Jacques, Twinkle, Twinkle, Bumblebee, Happy and You know it, Itsy Bitsy Spider and a variety of other ones.

Every day she says something new and connects words into phrases, unfortunately I can’t remember many off the top of my head right now.

We are probably at about 200+ words now not including phrases/songs etc.

Happy Thanksgiving

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Well, we survived. The pictures I took were random and not staged or great so forgive me. It was kind of crazy with 6 toddlers running around and 17 adults trying to keep track of them in our round-a-bout house. The kids had a great time. We set up two long tables in the dining room to accommodate all 17 adults for a sit-down-ish dinner. It worked well. There was LOTS of food but we still didn’t end up with much in the way of leftovers. Everyone brought their signature Thanksgiving side dish and we had 6 desserts in the end. I made the ham in the slow cooker as I didn’t have room in the stove and lucky I did. We had a 17 lb turkey that completely went and the half of the large ham. All in all, a fun night and here are some pics. I will post a video when Tim wakes up. Here it is, unfortunately I grabbed my camera after they had been doing this for a while so this part is less interesting but there is another one to follow of Edzea dancing this morning:

Thanksgiving Dancing

Dancing Edzea

Today, we’re taking Bruce for a drive out along the Ingraham Trail to Cameron Falls and doing a tour around Yellowknife.

Here are some pics of Uncle Bruce and his niece this morning.

Brrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!

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Bruce and I walked downtown today and it was cold! We took Edzèa in to a gym program at one of the schools. She played hockey with Uncle Bruce, rode a trike, played ball and ran around. It was the coldest day we’ve had in Yellowknife so far. Winter is here. Yuck. Bruce was a bit shocked!

Here are some pics of Edzèa that her Daddy took of her vaccuuming last week, dressing up and wearing Nana’s Halloween Mickey Mouse costume today.

Quick Update

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SNOW! SNOW! SNOW! It officially started snowing small flakes yesterday. Today we were frosted with an ample load! Bruce arrived and commented that he had just been at the beach in Vancouver last week. He’s finding it a little chilly! and it’s only -1. We still have plans to take him on a hike to Cameron Falls on Monday and some walks around town.

Edzèa is thrilled to have her Uncle Bruce here. In fact, she makes sure he plays dress-up, tea party and that he reads to her. She wanted him to give her her bath tonight but was hijacked by Daddy. Lucky for him. He says he’s prepared to buy ear plugs at Walmart as Tim warned him that we are having night wakings again. LOUD night wakings! And his room is right beside hers.

Here are some pics from the past little while. Playing play dough with her Daddy, Family Centre Snack time and playing in the kitchen (her favourite thing to do), dressing up with Uncle Bruce and reading some new books that Nana sent up to her.

Bye for now. Wish for warmer weather for us please!!

Tim is going to scan our 20 week ultrasound pics and I’ll post them here when he does. The baby looks like Edzèa from the profile and is healthy and normal looking so far.

Painting

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One guess who’s the boss in this relationship????!!!This girl wants MORE paint!!!

Edzèa’s latest favourite thing is painting. She remembers that her Bumpa paints so when she paints she says “Bumpa paint” as a statement to acknowledge her wonderful memory…like we need to be reminded…she doesn’t seem to forget much! When she sees a tractor she says “Bumpa tractor”. Both of her Bumpa’s have/do interesting things. She also knows that Bumpa has a boat so whenever she sees a boat she says “Bumpa Boat”. She hasn’t categorized Grandma yet but supposedly Nana is the swimmer! I have a video of  Edzèa swimming at Mabel Lake and Nana is in the video so she’s decided that she and Nana are the swimmers!

Anyways, I digress. We’ve all been sick with a cold since Wednesday so we really haven’t left the house. Tim was the last to be attacked and the first to get over it so he took Friday morning off to look after Edzèa so I could rest. I’m still the worst of the three but I am improving so hopefully we’ll be back to Kindermusic on Monday or Daddy will have to take her.

It looks like we may have found new tenants for the downstairs which we are happy about. We were having a harder time this time around. October is not the ideal month to start a tenancy. Everyone is looking for September.

New words keep flowing from our daughter daily. I don’t know if I’ll be able to recall them all:

  1. Goose
  2. Light (Ight)-she hasn’t cracked the “l” sound quite yet
  3. Daddy
  4. Pat (as in pat Sadie)
  5. Nice
  6. Cracker
  7. Wheat
  8. Cheese
  9. Jacket
  10. Bed
  11. Turtle
  12. Painting
  13. Wallet

There are probably more but I can’t remember them all. She will try any word you ask her to repeat and some she pronounces better than others. It’s happening really quickly.

P.S. Here is a link that I was just given for Karen Morrow’s  (my cousin) Jewellery Blog

http://karenmorrow.blogspot.com/

Update

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The new word of the day is “Old Macdonald”. This is what our daughter asked for this morning and continued to impress us with it throughout the day. I couldn’t believe it when she repeated it after me. She loves the one video that I have for her; Baby Einstein’s Old Macdonald’s Farm. She asks to see it repeatedly. It’s as popular as her wagon. So when she asks for it by name and with such clarity, it’s hard to turn her down. It gives you 45 minutes of baby-free time to do chores around the house. It’s amazing. I can see why people give in to the tv thing although that isn’t in my plans.

Yesterday, we attended our second series of Kindermusic classes with a new instructor. It was 100 times better than with the last instructor and Edzea can actually follow along with some of the actions now. She loves to pretend to swim like a fish during the fish songs. She loves to pretend swim so as soon as the pool re-opens we’ll be back in the water.

We had our welcome back morning to the family centre today. It was a nice change. Edzea enjoyed herself as usual. She especially likes the kitchen area with the dolls/babies and the water play area. I had a hard time moving her from the water station once she discovered it. She needs a chair to boost herself to participate in it but it doesn’t deter her.

We have the family centre for the rest of the week and also gymnastics free play which should be interesting as she seems to like to climb things now.

Also, the minute that we pick up Daddy from work now the first and only word out of her mouth to him is “wagon” over and over and over again. So, the new ritual is that Daddy takes her for a wagon ride as soon as he gets home. This girl NEVER forgets that her wagon is around even though it is hidden in the garage.

Bye for now.

Edzèa’s words at 16 Months

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Here’s a list so I won’t forget. These are her words approximately, at 16 months old. Tim says that she also sang “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” the other night. Her words weren’t all clear but she babbled along in tune. She can also do some of the Old MacDonald song now and her newest words are “wagon, open, messy”. Almost everything I say now she will try to repeat. She is also combining words like Bumpa Tractor, Nana Happy, Dada Bum, Wet Bum, Yes Please, Dance Zaya, Bumpa Boat etc. I’m sure I’ve forgotten a few.

By the way, in the books, at the end of 16months she’s supposed to use 6 words. Also, her words are no indication of her understanding. She understands much more and knows way more words than she can say yet.

1.    Mama
2.    Mommy
3.    Dada
4.    Bumpa (Grandpa)
5.    Nana ( Nana & Banana)
6.    Bamma (Grandma)
7.    Bumblebee
8.    Dino (Dinosaur)
9.    Wagon
10.    Please
11.    Tank u
12.    No
13.    Yes/Yup
14.    Bo-ll-Bottle
15.    Bowl
16.    Plate
17.    Shoes
18.    Cup
19.    Dress
20.    Red
21.    Blue
22.    Yellow
23.    Dance
24.    Walk
25.    Ma-Mackenzie
26.    Dorda-Georgia
27.    Danielle
28.    Do-dan (Jordan)
29.    Chicken
30.    Cracker
31.    Bird
32.    Cat
33.    Dog
34.    Diraffe
35.    Onkey (Monkey)
36.    Book
37.    Amp (Lamp)
38.    Miaow
39.    Moo
40.    Ribbit
41.    Who Who -Owl
42.    Neigh
43.    Quack Quack
44.    Woof Woof
45.    Ribbit
46.    hooohooo ha ha-Monkey
47.    hop
48.    Broom
49.    Sweep
50.    Messy
51.    Star
52.    Dar (Car)
53.    Play Do
54.    Eyes
55.    Ears
56.    Nose
57.    Mouth
58.    Milk
59.    Tray
60.    Belt
61.    Iano (piano)
62.    Hands
63.    Toes
64.    Hat
65.    Mitts
66.    Apple
67.    Water
68.    Bucket
69.    Shovel
70.    Bum
71.    Wipes
72.    Towel
73.    Soap
74.    Ant
75.    Ball
76.    Bear
77.    Bubbles
78.    Grrr
79.    Roar
80.    Maaa
81.    Baaaa
82.    Pig
83.    Oink
84.    Brella (umbrella)
85.    Plane
86.    One
87.    Two
88.    Tree
89.    Rock
90.    Phone
91.    Away
92.    Again
93.    Zaya (Edzea)
94.    Down
95.    Up
96.    Open
97.    Close
98.    Help
99.    More
100.    Baby
101.    Bib
102.    Eat
103.    Ee I O
104.    Doodle Doo
105.    Hi
106.    Bye
107.    Muffin
108.    Doll
109.    Potty
110.    Door
111.    Tactor (Tractor)

112. Drink

113. Wheee

114. Slide

115. Sing (Swing)

116. Happy

117. Wet

118. Flower

119. Boat

120. Box

121. Boots

122. Yippeee

123. Uh Oh

124. Mine

124. Memie (for her blankie)

125. Blankie (she can also say it correctly now but doesn’t choose to unless asked)

125. Shirt

126. Jeans

127. Wait
128. Bug

Sept. Long Weekend and week

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Here are some pics from the past week in Yellowknife. We had a miserable cold/wet Long weekend and then this weekend has been +20 which is HIGHLY irregular for this time of year. We were out for a bbq at Long Lake with Gina, Stuart, Georgia, Gillian and Dylan tonight as the weather was so good.

The family centre re-opens next week YAY!! and we are signed up for Kindermusic beginning on Monday. On Friday afternoon I went to a Mommy’s group at my Chinese friend, Ying’s house where we were treated to freshly made sushi and chinese dumplings. I was also introduced to another stay-at-home Mom who is looking to babysit so I may send Edzea there once a week for half a day as Tracey will be busy with a new baby soon and our trading will become non-existent.

We bought the last wagon in Yellowknife on sale at Walmart this week and Edzea helped Daddy put it together. The favourite word of the week is ” Wa-G-ON” She pronounces it perfectly with ane mphasis on the hard “G”.