X words

I've been wanting to make a list of all Xaris' words...to someday put in her baby book or something (I haven't started her baby book. It's all in a box waiting for me to put it together one day).

Since I haven't made the list yet, I decided that a good place to document the words and phrases she can say is on the blog...and then I at least wrote them down and they will be remembered.

Some of them are pretty cute!! I love conversations with her.

At 16.5 months old, here are her words/phrases/sentences:

1. Mama (mama--me!!)

2. Papa (papa--Ricardo)

3. Apeeee (pie--foot)

4. Mami or mamo (mano--hand)

5. Am-Bee-Go (ombligo--belly button)

6. Wow Wow (guau guau--what a dog says. she calls most animals and some people "wow wow")

7. Mi, or Mi-A (mira--look!)

8. Pio pio (what a bird says)

9. Pa-wo (pajaro--bird)

10. Ga-jah (gracias--thank you)

11. Mah (mas--more)

12. Eh-way (Se fue--it's all gone, or it left)

13. Amo (amo--love)

14. No (wanna take a guess at what this one means?)

15. Na na (nariz--nose)

16. Cah-gu (carro--car)

17. Am-o-ah (vamos a orar--we're going to pray)

18. La la la (one of her favorite books, or what pigs say)

19. Wow (wow)

20. Ah wah (agua--water)

21. Che Che or Tse Tse (leche--milk)

22. Ka Ki (kakita--poop or bum)

23. Bay bee (baby--or any of her stuffed friends)

24. Che chi (changuito--her monkey)

25. A-meen (amen)

26. um nummm num num num (I'm hungry, or the noise she makes sharing her milk with story book characters)

27. Dey (ten--here, or take this)

28. By-byeeeee (bye)

29. Ah yah (hola--hi)

30. No ma (no more, usually with a wave of her outstretched hand in the "stop" position)

31. Meee owww (what a cat says)

32. Dee-oh (Adentro--inside. Usually when I'm asking her to put her clothes in the laundry hamper)

33. Ba bo or ba bee (basura--trash. Similar to Dee-oh, only referring to throwing trash away)

34. Ay-yah (alla--over there)

35. Ah kee (aqui--here)

36. Way-veee (huevito--egg)

priorities

We were trying to get X to say some of her words while we recorded...she was only interested in one thing. :)

And it does appear that we have a nearly-naked baby nearly all the time...keep in mind that it's still in the upper 90's most days here...b.l.u.h.

for real

10 on 10!!

It's about time, I finally accomplished another 10 on 10. It's been so long since I managed it, here's a reminder of the project:

Take one photo every hour for 10 consecutive hours on the 10th day of each month.

I have a new app on my ipodphone (term stolen from Judy) that I wanted to play with, so all the pictures in this ten on ten are taken with it. It worked well, it made my full day of boring and errands appear more interesting and artsy.

Good Morning

late bagel breakfast date with Katie

There just happened to be a convenient stop in between breakfast and my office...

Concentrating on lunch

Saltwater sandals!

Dry cleaning...

One of the dawg's tennis balls. Normally you can't tell they are tennis balls, they are so dirty, brown and chewed up. The torrential rains we had (notice the silt and muck surrounding?) washed and bleached out all these tennis balls that were once hiding in our back yard. Now we see them!

Dancing with Papa

(this one's extra, just because she's cute when she dances)

Dancing turned into climbing.

Which turned into sleepy girl!

X sings

This was during our vacation in Seattle.

Grandma Judy, Kira, Ricardo and I were cleaning up from dinner, and Xaris was wandering around the kitchen, "helping" and singing as she went. Kira and Grandma Judy (and even me) started singing along with her...

we thought it was pretty cute.