Friday, March 30, 2007
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Ma-ma-marvelous
My daughter - my sweet, loving, smart, beautiful, sensitive, generous, funny daughter - just learned two new words! The sweetest sounding words in the whole wide world...
Mmmmmaa - that's for me, mama
aaaDaa - that's for Rob, daddy
All the silly speech therapy games are working! She's making new sounds and putting new letter sounds together to make words.
It's God's grace all over my baby girl and I'm so happy. I'm so proud of her - I'm just bursting at the seams.
Thank you Jesus.
Friday, March 23, 2007
Much ado about nothing
Sometimes I have a hard time finding things in my day that are post-worthy. Do you know what I mean? Here are some of the posts I considered (and then rejected) throughout the week...
Blown away
Deep thoughts about my new ceiling fan
Snot again
Just like clockwork, on the Tuesday morning after attending Sunday school, Janie is sick
What were they thinking?
Top ten punishments for parents who send their sick kids to Sunday school
Attack of the playground equipment
Clumsy moms who injure themselves while playing with their toddler on the toddler-sized play structure at the park
It's a jolly holiday with Janie
I think I've mentioned this before - Janie's favorite movie in the whole wide world is Mary Poppins. Loves it. Loves it so much that she has created her own dance moves to go along with it.
- She does the high-stepping dance walk that Mary and Bert do while dancing through the countryside chalk drawing.
- She waddles just like the little penguin waiters.
- She can do a spot-on impersonation of a chimney sweep dancing on the rooftop.
- And my favorite, she can (try to) balance on one foot while gliding on a turtle across the pond.
In an impressive effort to bring her turtle dance to the next level, she recently added a prop:
To me, she looks just like Mary Poppins.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Life lessons
Two important things I've learned this week:
1. Always check the pockets of your husband's pants before throwing them into the washer.
2. Cell phones and washing machines are not a good combo.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
The freeze
So Janie's new favorite song is The Freeze. It's a cute song that we discovered during playtime at Gymboree, and Rob tracked it down on a pretty obscure (read: not available on iTunes) CD. It's a full-on dance number, and at various intervals, dancers are supposed to... you guessed it - FREEZE!
According to Janie, the best way to enjoy this musical event is to bop around in a circle to the beat. Bop around the dining room table. Bop around the ottoman in her bedroom. Or just bop around the living room. The experience can be taken to a whole new level with the addition of maracas or tambourines. And of course, it's only truly fun if mom and dad bop around with her.
Rob and I willingly comply, of course. And if you could peek in our windows throughout the evening you would see us bopping around in a circle, shaking our maracas like crazy people and freezing into some very silly poses.
It just occured to me however, that if you really did peek in our windows, you probably wouldn't be able to see Janie enjoying this music and dance extravaganza. She's less than three feet tall and that means she's below the windowsill and can't be seen.
So to our neighbors it must look like Rob and I enjoy bopping around the house while shaking maracas and stopping to stike a pose. Just the two of us. Gosh, they must think we're wierd!
Monday, March 12, 2007
Celebrity-in-training
Is that Nicole Richie? Nope - it's my little celebrity-in-training! Janie loves to wear sunglasses, and like any good super star, she wears them indoors too. I mean, it's important to look our best while shopping for diapers, right?
Thanks grandma for the cute sunglasses!
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