Millennium park!
20 Months Old
Maybelle is talking. Like, you can talk to her. And she’ll talk back. Such as:
- Hafafrap (this is the television, specifically Sesame Street or Yo Gabba Gabba. I have no idea where she got this word, I think she just made it up)
- Food words: shabby (strawberry), bubbles (blueberries), toash (toast), chips, cake, cookie, coffee, milk, juice, cheese, yo-yo (yogurt), peezy (pizza)
- Japanese-style endings. She has the tendency to add a vowel to the ends of consonant, like in Japan. bag-a, hug-a, pad-a (for the iPad).
- Animal words: goats, cow, moose, kitty, horse
- Two word phrases: see you, mama water, daddy phone
- Steps, stroller, park, star, moon, house, slide, see-saw
- Almost any letter of the alphabet (she loves those Moncure books)
- Hi and bye
- No, no, no
Walk around the neighborhood with no stroller. Played in mud with sticks, went in that spooky abandoned park behind a church, and saw baby geese on the Chicago river.
Collecting eggs at the Knoxville Zoo.
At the Opryland hotel, Nashville, Tennessee, with Meemaw and Papaw.
Riding the see saw with Violette at Welles Park.
Playing at Diego’s.
Maybelle’s Words
back (put it back)
color (crayons and paper)
pow (those squeezy food pouch thingies)
pillow, blanky
bunny, flower
choo-choo (train, duh)
papa, daddy
go
manga (nursing), side (nursing on the other side)
body words: head, eye, nose, mouth, belly, toe, mole, glasses
Elmo, Grover, Abby
19 Months Old
We all got sick as a family the other night, and we lived through that. So we are all still introducing solids back into our diets after living on pedialyte and Gatorade.
At the children’s museum of immigration at the Swedish museum.
