Thursday, April 30, 2009

Favorite words

I know a lot of posts have been about language recently, but she seems to just be picking up words left and right and they are so darn cute! Here are some of my favorites.
noo noo = noodle
ah-pane = airplane
howp = help
Peep = Pete, a friend who visited recently
mommy = melon
cuddle = cuddle (tricky, I know)
sheet = sit (sometimes it actually comes out sounding like a naughty word)
shouler (like shoulder, without the d) = stroller
pah-no = piano
me = mirror

She has also recently taken to talking about who goes to the bathroom. So be forewarned, if you use the bathroom and she sees you go in there, she will have to talk about it for a while afterward. "Momma pee...blah blah blah....momma....blah blah blah....pee." And so on.
She is big into stories right now, talking about things that happened. She has an amazing memory for past events. For example, she was re-enacting her puking illness last week by making weird throw-up noises and pointed to the floor where she did most of her puking. That happened over a month ago! And she talks about her favorite dog "Pabo" (real name: Cabo) who came to visit quite a while ago.

We are trying to get her ready to go to Hawaii in May by shifting her sleeping schedule. Hawaii is 4 hours behind MN time (so when it is noon in MN it is 8am in Hawaii), and we really don't want to be getting up at 2:30am when she thinks it is 6:30am. So we are keeping her up later at night, letting her sleep until 8:30 in the morning, and putting her down for her nap at 3pm instead of 1pm. We'll probably keep gradually shifting later and later until we leave, but do we really want to end up keeping her up until midnight?! Probably not. Anyone have good ideas for traveling long distances with a toddler?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh yeah the "puking" incident. I captured it for posterity.

The evidence (3 pics)
Grandpa

Alyssa said...

Melia is picking up "words" too. Check out a video of her latest- draw- on our blog. That's so funny that Charlotte "tells stories." I swear Melia is trying to do that when all she says is "Noah" over and over again after daycare (Noah is her daycare buddy- one of them...)