• Bug,  Family Matters,  movies,  Niece-com-poops,  party party,  the sticks

    Party in the Sticks!

    Sticks Sticks Sticks… I know, it seems like I just got back from the sticks yesterday and here we are back again. We’re here for a good reason though. My brother and his wife are celebrating their ten year anniversary this Saturday (tomorrow! eeek!) with a big huge wedding-esque party (because they never really had a wedding the first time—they eloped) and of course I have been enlisted to help out. How could I not? My middle name is party prep.

    Which is a good thing since my niece, Rapunzel, is turning nine on Monday and my sister-in-law hosted a sleep-over birthday party for her tonight. I haven’t really done much to help besides eat more than my share of pizza and cupcakes but it has been fun to be in the middle of it all. Baby Bug is having the time of her life of course. She thinks she’s one of the girls and has been running and screaming though the house just like them. Next thing I know, she’ll be playing truth or dare and putting on sparkly eye shadow. Yikes! What a thought.

    Sigh… but not yet.

    Just yesterday Baby Bug had her first sprinkler experience. It was so fun. “Wha-whoo! Wha-whoo!” she says, trying to get closer and closer to it but not understanding why she’s getting wetter and wetter. I love seeing the world through her eyes. I made a little movie (2.3 megs quicktime) with my Dad’s camera so you can pretend to be one again too. This is for you Auntie Knittery. It also has a big clip of SuperChic in it and I can’t take credit for knowing what a clavicle is. I learned it the same way SuperChic will learn… from Auntie Tickle tickling it.

  • Bug

    Her words…

    1. kitty (Her first word except at first she said “kkkkkkkkk” and rolled her k’s like a cat purring. Now she says, “kitteeeeeeeeeeeeee” like a normal kid. I kinda miss the old rolling k’s.)
    2. dada
    3. mama
    4. uum-nahs (this is not a real word but she uses it a lot to refer to yummy food. As in the bagels and brownies in the display at Starbucks are “UUM-NAHS!!!!” and should be eaten right away.)
    5. nana (as in banana)
    6. cah (coffee… probably because Toby and I are always drinking it)
    7. cuh (cup)
    8. baaaaah (bath)
    9. pah (pacifier)
    10. car
    11. doggie (sometimes followed by “pant pant”)
    12. pop pop (the sound you make when opening and closing your mouth with no vocal sound) as in fish. A fish makes this sound
    13. cheese (as in camera, because we always say “say cheese”)
    14. threeeeeeee! (any number)
    15. uh oh (something she usually says seconds before she drops her sippy cup on the floor from her high chair tray
    16. baby
    17. ooh oh (monkey)
    18. raaaawk (rock)
    19. waaaawk (walk, as in “let’s go on a walk to the park”)
    20. par (park)
    21. gookie (cookie)
    22. guh girl (good girl)
    23. whaaah-whoo (water)
    24. daddeeeeeeeee! (daddy)
    25. sheee (shoe)
    26. cur (color, as in “let’s color”)
    27. bye bye
    28. nigh’ nigh’ (night night)
    29. uh uh (electrical socket, because that’s what I’m always saying when she wants to touch it)
    30. glee (broccoli)
    31. ti-yah (tortilla)
    32. hiiiiii!!!! (hi)
    33. bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb (ladybug, because of this movie that she LOVES)
    34. Laaaay-nah (her name)
    35. dah-done (all done)
    36. eye (what she says as she pokes me in the eye)
    37. eigh (egg)
    38. buuuh-ble (bubble)
    39. sock
    40. ball (usually “ball! ball! ball!)
    41. wah-wuhl (waffle)
    42. juh! (jump)
    43. wow Wow! WOW!
    44. key
    45. papa
    46. noooodle (noodle)
    47. riiiiiiigh (rice)
    48. meeeeeeeeeeen (moon)
    49. spoon
    50. ducky

    I’m glad somebody asked me to post this because I am soooo brain dead tonight. I had a great day. Got so much done but now I’m officially done. Not one drip of brain power left.