playful thursday

Carlee was in a very playful mood today. She quickly grabbed the mattress cover after I took it out of the dryer and started playing her "where are you?" game. She would hide, and say, "mama! wer awre yyooo?" (trying to portray Carlee talk here, lol) She kept busy with this for a good few minutes, before finally getting distracted by the cats. Then she went on to play doctor, which I think she was excited about since she had just been to the doctor. She remembered she had doctor toys to play with!

On that note, her doctor's appointment went great. She was up to date on her shots, so no pain for Carlee on her birthday. :) They finally listened to me and put her on allergy medicine. So she should not be sneezing and having a runny nose as often. ahem, thank goodness! She was even really chatty at the doctors, which was unusual.

She's starting to talk in a few sentences, AND she's learning a few words in Spanish (thanks to Dora) and Italian (well, thanks to living here.) hehe. In Spanish, she'll say Hola! and Vamenos, which sounds more like BaamnOOOs. lol. We actually never talk to her in Italian, mainly because we're just starting to pick it up better ourselves, but when the Italian workers came over the other day, one looked at her and said, "Ciao, bella!" and she looked at him, waved and said "Ciao!" I was so surprised. We never say ciao to her, always hello, but now we're starting to say both. It's amazing how fast they pick things up. She'll also say grazie of course not as clear, but still. And the amount of English of course has gone way up. She's gone from hardly talking to talking all the time. Kids are just so incredible!

Anyway, enjoy the pictures! I put my favorites here, then if you want to see the rest of them, click here for the snapfish album! :D



I see my Mom in her in this picture: :D
She kept wanting to hear my heartbeat... so it made it hard to take pics of her. I kept trying to get her to check Boots out. lol

newest words

I forgot to say in the last post that when Carlee does the sign for duck (quacking movement with your hand,) she'll say, "dugkdugkdugkdug" over and over, LOL. Anywho, what reminded me to tell ya'll was that last night she decided what her next word was going to be... Anyone want to take a guess? ah... well... it was.... spongebob. Yeah.. ... ... .. LMAO. She was dragging around her big Spongebob pillow thing, and I said, "Do you have Spongebob?" and she answered with her version: spubaw. It was the cutest thing. Then she was saying it all last night because we kept asking her where spongebob was, or who's spongebob, etc. So, she's not as vocal as a lot of kids, I think because she relies more on expression and hand guestures to get what she wants, but we're up to "momma" "dadda" "more" which comes out like mo mo mo... hehe. She'll say "up" once in a while, "duck" and "spongebob"... She might be trying to say more words by now, maybe we're just not catching what she's saying yet. We definately know she's understanding us more and more everyday though. It's amazing how when we'll say something, like "where's the kitty?" or "look at what's on tv!" or "get the ball!", how fast she reacts and in the right way no less. I swear she's a little sponge herself. :D

Carlee Picasso

Today's Moms' Club playgroup was a fingerpainting playgroup! woohoo! At first, Carlee was a little hesitant, but after some encouragement from mommy, she finally Let Loose!

Don't worry... it's non-toxic. :P



Carlee did everything blue:
She did this one all by herself!

First Drumming Lessons

Carlee saw Daddy drumming away on her LeapFrog drum, so she came over and started mimicking his finger movements. It was so adorable!

Spooning!

YAY!!!

Walking Like Crazy

next word

I forgot to tell everyone... Carlee said "HI" back on Friday, at Daddy's farewell dinner. !!! yay!!! Now, she's been saying it nonstop. She waves and says, "Hi!" "Hi!" Hi HI HI HI.. lol she's so cute. Last night we had another farewell dinner, and in the middle of taking a picture with friends, she said "Hi" and everyone said, "YAY" and started clapping. The noise was too loud and all of a sudden so it scared her. LOL. She was so cute. :)

First meal... all by myself!

This morning, we decided to see if Carlee would eat on her own. We scrambled her some egg whites and I mashed her up some fresh cantelope... and she LOVED it! I really think she enjoyed the independence of feeding herself. Now, I'm going to have to find more food she can feed herself, because after this meal, she's been getting frustrated when I try to feed her! She's such a big girl! :D

Water Babies

Today Daddy had the day off, so we enjoyed a few hours out at the pool. Daddy is determined to make a little swimmer out of Carlee yet. :) She enjoyed the time in the water, and the quality time spent with Daddy even more. :D I took these while tanning, I love how they came out.

Carlee has recently learned to KISS! She recognizes the word "kiss" and immediately comes in for a peck when she hears it. kisses for everyone!

I love this one:

Once out of the safe feeling of her floaty, she was quite clingy at first:
But of course, it didn't last long:
Our little underwater Princess:

standing.

the other day, I finally caught a pic of her standing before she fell down.. lol

:D

bear crawlin baby

So, Carlee is not walking yet, but she's started to do this weird walk/crawl we've been calling a bear crawl. It's like what the football team used to do back home, except she doesn't bend her knees. It's so funny. So, she's in the shape of a walking triangle. :) I'll try to get a picture of it next time she does it. She's also building up her balance as well, so it won't be too long before she's walking. :D

wave!

Carlee has learned to wave... but I couldn't catch her with her hand open... only with it closed! As you can see, she still has to concentrate quite a bit... and is usually watching her hand when she does it lol... Yay for Carlee!
This is a close up of her tonight too. We ate at Giovanni's and she was such a good girl! She even got to meet mommy's fourth grade teacher who happened to be dining there also. :)

scaling the couch