Sunday, October 3, 2010

Weekend Wrap-up



Eventhough the weekend is not officially over, I had time so I thought I would post about our weekend.
Friday night we headed to the Target center to go to the Shrine Circus. Darryl, Brylee, and I ate at Hardrock Cafe and then met Eric, Leah, and the girls over at Target center. The girls had a great time. Brylee sat really good too. At intermission we went down on the circus floor as they had elephant rides and pony rides. We didn't pay the insane amount of money for a 2 second ride, but we watched the elephants up close. The girls loved it. After intermission we were going to head back to our seats, but the girls were so tired that we never did. We made it through 2 hours and it was 9:30...so we called it a night and headed home.
Yesterday, Darryl worked in the morning and he took Brylee with. She enjoys playing with the kids in childcare at Lifetime, and Darryl's co-workers love seeing Brylee. I ran some errands and then in the afternoon we headed up to Eric and Leah's to celebrate Drew's 6th Birthday (which was last Thursday). She had a party in the morning with about 14 friends and then family/friends were invited up later. The girls had a great time, Drew got lots of fun presents, Brylee enjoyed jumping on the trampoline and going on their swings, and it was great to catch up with Eric, Leah, the Gusso's, Lona, and some of their neighbors.
Today we are heading over to my best friend Erin's (her parent's house) as Erin, Adam, and baby Will are in town. We are looking forward to seeing them as it is usually every few months we get to visit.
So, all in all a fun, busy weekend! The weather is cool but sunny, which is great fall weather.
Next weekend we are heading to Iowa for my cousin Brian's wedding. Hopefully Brylee does well at being quiet (during the appropriate times).
Then, the next weekend we are off to Orlando for 6 days....we are very much looking forward to some great quality family time and going to Disney.

Here are a few pics from yesterday of Brylee enjoying her time outdoors.
all done with the trampoline


Boomer





the boys...Jason, Eric, and Darryl






Friday, October 1, 2010

vocabulary of a 17 month year old

Today Brylee is 17 months and she is constantly talking...hmmm...wonder where she gets that from?
Anyways I have been trying to document her extended vocabulary. Let me tell you she is advanced (ok...so I am bragging) but really...I can say that because of my profession as a speech/language pathologist...I won't bore you with the average mean length of utterance or average number of words for her age...but she truly has the gift of gab!

Brylee's words at 17 months:
mommy, mama, mom,
daddy, dad,
puppy
RoRo (Rosie)
Rahr (bear)
rahr (lion)
baa (sheep)
moo (cow)
duck
kack (duck)
huss (horse)
hat
hot
owweee
more
dunno (done!)
Mickey (this will come in handy at Disneyworld in a few weeks!)
milk
NO! (and this is used the most...No means no and No also means yes!)
baby
boo (ghost)
what's at (what's that...used all the time about 1,000 times a day it seems)
vrroom vrroom (car, truck)
gecko (according to Mary our nanny)
dampa (grandpa...still no form of grandma...which drives my mom crazy!)
Bobo (Colby)
ball
up
down
butt (belly button)
Hi
appo (apple)
mac (mac and cheese)
book
hoo hoo (owl)
fish lips (= fish)
elmo

A few 2 word combos...always involving the word No!
(e.g. daddy no! puppy no! mommy no!)

I am sure I left out a few but this is all I could think of.

Brylee can also receptively point to her body parts (head, eyes, hair, ear, nose, mouth, teeth, hands, feet, fingers, toes, and belly).
 

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