November 2009

Um, since it's been almost 2 months since the end of November, I've completely forgotten everything I haven't written down. And the only things I wrote down were things about Amaia. So.
Amaia has learned to say these new words in November:
Nice
Bubble
Apple (pronounced babooo)
Amaia Needs (for real)
Mine
Poo-Poo (I still haven't decided if this is actually poop, or if it means diaper. She signs diaper while saying it, but she'll only say it when she's poopy.)
Please
Go, Go Go!
Bite
Vitamin (pronounced bite-eee)
Me
Amen (pronounced Amy, but she will say it on her own at the end of a prayer)
Ball
Down
Tissue

This Month she has learned these new signs:
Nice
Clean (which happens to be the same as Nice, but she knows they are both)
Down
Baby Signing Time (the whole phrase now)
moon
Grandma & Grandpa
Ball

And finally on my list, the list of things she's learned to do this month:
Climb (on the couch, the kitchen chairs, the hammock....everything)
She now asks for Baby Signign Time by folding her arms (like baby) and saying 'Baby baby" in a sing song voice
Now actually plays with the darn ball pit that we've had forever. She used to just ignore it while all her friends enjoyed it, but now she'll actually jump in and play with the balls, and even help me clean them up (sometimes)
She's learned to pick her nose. Or to at least shove her finger as far up in there as it can get, and then look to see what kind of reaction she can get from us.
She's learned where on her body are her ears, nose, (and boogers), tummy, face and hair
If you make a super sad face she'll come running and give you a big hug
Loves to stab things into mommy's eyes.
Every night in the shower will ask for her vitamin (bite-ee)
Asks for daddy all day long. She gets so sad when I tell her that daddy went 'bye bye'.
Folds her arms for a prayer (when asked to) and says Amen
Brushes teeth (like actually moved the brush back and forth across her front teeth). She even tries to get the back teeth by shoving it in her mouth and just wiggling it around back in there.
If she wants me to pat her back while I'm holidng her, she'll lay her head on my shoulder and pat my back.





These are the pictures I took of Amaia helping me clean up. Mopping the floor, pulling the clean laundry out of the dryer and handing it to me, helping me empty the dishwasher, and cleaning the windows. Too bad all good things come to an end, huh?

These are the pictures we took as a family this year. We had some friends who already did their family pics, but their little boy (who is 2 months younger than Amaia) wouldn't smile at all, so we offered to re-do their pictures if they took ours. We re-did thiers, and we used Amaia as bait to get Andrew to smile. Which he did. He was just giggling all over. Then we tried the same trick to get Amaia to smile. No Love. She saw him alright, but wanted to get down and go play with him and so most of the pictures we got were us smiling, with Amaia either falling off our laps, or whining to get down. We finally got a couple of her smiling, but she's still making a funny face. Oh well.

Here are some pictures of Amaia and Andrew after we gave up on the family ones. They had such a good time together.

And of course, this month's compilation video. Included are right when Amaia learned to say Nice, Please, Pizza, Vitamin and Goodnight, along with some signs she learned, and of course, her being silly trying to put on daddy's pants and socks. Everything that goes on her feet goes on the same way: her holding her foot in her hand and shoving it into the clothes. Hope you enjoy!