something new and she is so much fun to be with. She has just gotten into her dolls and stuffed animals. She loves her black stuffed dog her brother Austin handed down to her because she kept taking it from him (his "Lucky dog" grandma Barry gave to him). Lucky dog goes to bed with her every night and she goes right down to sleep (well, at least most nights). Her little baby doll (a birthday present from Austin) and her Dora doll she got from Grandma Tuscano are now her favorites. I wrapped her baby dolls on her one day and she loved it, she walks around patting its back and playing. The other day she walked up to me with her doll, one of her play silks (which I usually use to wrap her doll with), and signed "help" to me. Too cute!!! This is her with her baby doll on the other day.
She is also learning to color with crayons. Of course this is a highly supervised activity at this point as the crayons apparently look to good not to eat!! We work on out and in as well while coloring, as they need to come out of the box and go back in about 5 times during coloring.
Bell also loves to "help" around the house. You know, I sweep up a pile of dirt and she un sweeps it, she takes the laundry out of the dryer when we are trying to put it in, and loves to try and crawl up on the dishwasher to help her brother load dishes. But she is learning and having fun! She is to funny with the broom, she holds it all the way down by the bottom and bends down to sweep. I keep trying to get her to move her hands up and stand up, but no luck so far.
She has learned a bunch of new signs recently and it is so great, she can sign: dog, cat, bird, milk, more, eat, drink, hurt, flower, fan, play, night-night, ball, pacifier, hat, coat, shoes, socks, Austin, daddy, hear, plane. There are probably more I don't remember - oh, cookie.
And she is starting to really say words as well - of couse they don't sound like words to anyone but those of us who can interperate them! Daddy and mommy are clear, but here are a few others:
Cookie is "cak ca" (i think from me saying cracker - as they all get the same sign and word).
Night-night is "ni ni" - she says ni-ni, waves and kisses everyone who is home when she goes to bed.
One she just picked up yesterday is Phoebe, "be be". She loves when Phoebe plays with her. Phoebe has two long dog toys (a duck and a snake). Austin calls the duck "tug a duck". Bell will wrap it around her neck and run up and down the hall with it. Phoebe goes after her and grabs one end and pulls it off her neck. Then bell grabs the other end and they run around the house with Bell laughing and now screaming be-be. It is amazing how gentle Phoebe is when she plays with her!! Lucky on the other hand tolerates her, but mostly just swats her in the face with his hard tail. She walks around with her hand in front of her face when he is coming at her, as his tail is right at her height now.
Well, enough about Bell, you would think she is the only one in this family - ha!! Her life is much more exciting than ours. Austin has a swim meet tomorrow in Chesapeake, MD - it is about an hour away, but luckily an afternoon meet and not at 8 AM like most of them! He is doing well in swimming and improving his times and working on his dives and flip turns a lot this season.
Don will be spending the weekend alternating between watching football (The Saints are in the palyoffs !!!) and making me a pegboard display I need for some upcoming babyfairs I have. If only we could get satelite hookup to the shed, he could do both at the same time!!
I am feeling well, and getting big! Feeling the baby move everyday now, which is pretty neat.
well that's all for now!
Love you all!
Karen
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