2 year update

Well the last time I wrote was a few weeks before Jordan. I'll try and put some photos on here of the trip. So much time has past since my last entry. T is speaking some Arabic, some Spanish, some English and some jibberish words. I'm proud that our 7 weeks in JOrdan bore some fruit with the arabic words. She's also doing toilet activities nowadays. Not every day, but she's had lots of times there, although she still wears diapers a lot of the time. She likes Dora, Barney and Plaza Sesamo dvds. I try not to let her watch too much network tv. I'm still so happy to be home with her. She has her 2 munecas/bebes that she carries around much of the time; they survived going to Jordan and returning safely although quite soiled. I'm trying to keep a written diary of things we do each day. She's still been entertaining herself with the piles of stuffed animals, moving them from one area to the next. and she likes books. She's learning her colors too.

We had a small b-day party for her the week after we returned from Jordan, just at the house here with some family members.

BlueBayou water park

We went to the water park last Sunday, mother's day. She conked out on Brenda who had to hold her for the hour she napped. She did NOT care for the water slides and finally towards the end she started playing in the pool.

things she doesn't like

Senorita does not like these toys, along with all of her dolls too. She makes an furrowed brow face and throws them to the side.

more words

She's gotten up to about 10 "words" for this month:
buh buh for bubbles/burbuja
baaaa for ball/pelota
Booney for Barney
shoooo for shoes
wah wah for agua/water
apple
book
bobo
coooo for cool for sunglasses
ocho 8; and H in Spanish plus a few more letters and numbers, most prominent is OCHO!

Now she's been saying most of these in ENGLISH and I can't believe it. I try to just speak in Spanish to her and she mostly watches Plaza Sesamo, Spanish Dora and KaiLan and now Spanish Barney thanks to my friend Fabiana from Venezuela. The English video she watches is the Baby Signing time videos and that is how she learned BALL, BOOK, SHOE because they SING those words while SIGNing them. So the only definite word in Spanish is alla' but I"m telling myself that the buhbuh is for burbuja and wahwah for agua. She says coooo for sunglasses because I always say "wow, cool" when she puts them on. She knows ocho mostly and M, H, N in Spanish as well. Since she hit 21 months her words have increased greatly.

some activities this month

The first one is of her pointing out una arana (spider); then she's crying because her animal fell out of the basket; then B and T are at the Bouncy house place; then she had to put on her Ladybug raincoat even though it was hot and sunny; we fed the ducks.

sleeping with the animals and trying to ride a camel

This is T trying to sit on the toy camel we'd bought in Egypt. And 2 poses of her sleeping with her animals in bed for nighttime and naptime.

Florida beach

We went to Fort Walton Beach and Destin last weekend, after Easter holiday. Both B and T loved playing in the water, although it was chilly. Talia took a nap on the beach and woke up to B "fake" crying and she immediately went over to him to check if he was ok.