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conversations with myself I put her down for a nap around 2:00 pm and went down to wash dishes. The monitor was on and at some point she just started talking. Non-stop talking. After about 10 minutes I began to write it down. Sometimes it’s singing. Occasionally I can’t understand the words. There are lots of stuffed animals in there with her...

“...I want ice cream too. Very good. Bye bye bye. You want to walk around? Walking around. The bear wants out in the snow. Bye bye. I see you out the window. I go outside. Bye bye. I ride in the bike. Inside the car actually. Bye bye. I see you. I going. I going home. Own house. Outside. I going Oma’s house. Right now the market. Next time see piggies. They come over. I going? See cows right now. Everybody want a cow. Say moo right here. Cows eat a flower.
Twinkle, twinkle little star. (singing) How I wonder what you are. Like a whirring on my tongue. Over again. Like a whirring in my song. Rocking, rocking...I go home too.
Wearing own house? Mama go home with you. Mama go with you. Go home too with mama and dada. I see you frog. Go to mama dada’s house. I go too.
Walking in the woods . In and out. (To the tune of ”The Wheels on the Bus”) People on the bus in and out all through the town. (whispering...)
Good bye, so long, farewell (another song she knows)...I’ll see you soon again my friends. Goodbye, so long. Hug. Kiss. Mom and dad.
I go home too. I cama leaf (not sure what this phrase was, she kept repeating it). Good night. Goodnight dada, mama. I like you. Come out the window. I go home too . I cama leaf ? I gotta be careful. A leaf...
Naiya Naiya. Go in too. Go in her house. REAL Tall!! I bring in whole bunch of babies. Helping get out the floor. I see. Up, up, up, up up. In the horses. Special. Up and away. Go up too. Go fairy up. Go right up. Just go right up. Big girl. A pretty. Naiya go around. (humming...)
Go away Jill. Fly away Jill. Come back Jack. Come back Jill. Two toys to play with. Choo choo. Walla Walla bing bang. Nope. (humming...) Oooo, walla, walla bing.
Have you seen the baker man? (another song) The baker man. He’s driving. Have you seen the baker man. Lives on Drueeee Lane. Baker man. Baker man Morning, morning. Alright. Got the penguin. O hello! Yes. I go sleep right. I am go lay down. Thank you. Happy. Chub, chub...baker man. Uncle Slade too. There then. I see. I see us? A handle. Go up here too. Angel. Angel. A frog coming.
A park. A park. Very singing. Puppet. A puppet. There you are! You are a puppet...around around the rosy. Ashes, ashes. You all fall down. I sorry...”

(After about fifteen minutes I just stopped the transcription.)
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dolls for boys

Just something to think about.
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ryan fitzgerald At the moment I haven't anything to say here really.

It's rare that I take a photograph that I like this much of someone that I love as much as I love this man.
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 We have these nice finger paints from Crayola. Non-toxic and quite pretty. The medium is rather thick and so when completed and dried, depending on the amount of paint applied, the finished product can look a bit like a lovely display of stained glass. Unfortunately, very little of the paint ended up on the jars we were attempting to decorate. We did learn, though, that when all the colors are mixed together, they create a lovely shade of green.
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oolie the owl We have that glass pickle ornament on our tree. You know the one. You hang it last and kind of hide it amongst the branches. The children are supposed to have a game of it where they all search in the foliage and the first to find it receives a special little gift... Well, the day before Christmas I realized we didn’t have one (a little gift that is). So while we played a rollicking game of Trivial Pursuit, I stitched up this little gal. No pattern. Just a random cut out of a sweater I had felted in the washing machine some months ago.
Of course I didn’t actually finish her in time for the pickle search so we forewent it. (Forewent? Can I say that?) I ended up just giving her to my daughter. Miss Naiya Sophia named her Oolie. Oolie the owl.
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christmas eve This is, by far, the most snow either of us remember seeing in Portland. I don't know if the pictures do it justice. When walking in the back yard, Naiya sank in up to her thighs in a few places. Because of the way we're situated at the top of our tiny hill, our yard gathers more snow than almost all of those around us.
Thanks again to Oma and Opa for the lidded sandbox/swimming pool/sled. We really wanted to pull Naiya around the neighborhood and Ryan found the only sled like object we had. That crab sand box is so multi-functional! She laughed a bit hysterically as he ran down the sidewalk with her in tow.
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the not so heavy doll At the Waldorf school where we attend a parent-child class, Naiya’s favorite doll is the heavy one. She (the doll) is filled with flax seed and, I’m guessing, weighs about 2 or 3 pounds. I traced her on a piece of paper, brought that home and made Ida (otherwise known as The Baby in the Purple Pajamas). Her PJs are permanently affixed and since I didn’t have flax seed and was excited to have her done, I filled her with the buckwheat hulls I had leftover from making some meditation cushions. Unfortunately, it turns out buckwheat hulls aren’t really heavy at all. I think I also could have used rice. Any kind of seed or “grow-able” / “sproutable” filling material can simply be cooked or microwaved to keep it from growing should your baby accidentally get wet. I wouldn’t recommend the buckwheat hulls for dolls.
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waldorf doll 

a glowing daddy Naiya and her daddy had this exchange the other day while shopping:

Naiya was a bit fussy and didn't want to sit in the cart. She was getting loud and super wiggly with her daddy. When she does this kind of thing, he holds her firmly by the shoulders and asks her to look him in the eye. He talks to her about what she's doing and she usually responds quite well to this form of discipline. The one rule she is really good at remembering is "No screaming. No crying." which she will sometimes immediately blurt out when she thinks she's about to get a talking to. During this particular encounter though, things didn't get that far. Ryan held her and said, "Naiya, look at me." She stopped wriggling and stopped fussing and just closed her eyes. She wouldn't open them. Just sat in still silence. After a few moments Ryan couldn't help himself and started to giggle. With her eyes still closed Naiya started to giggle too. I guess eventually she opened her eyes and they just started laughing together with their faces inches apart.
Ryan was kind of glowing when he told me this story. He thought she was so wonderful. Do men glow? I think so. At least the daddy ones
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a couple whiles We were playing by the fireplace with some blocks and animals. Rather suddenly, she had a change of plans. “Bye, bye,” she said, “I’ll see you in a couple whiles.”
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winter fox 

hallowe'en at the zoo Labels: autumn, celebrations, seasonal, the girl child


labor of love Labels: crafty craft, daddy, ryan, the girl child


pumpkin patch Posted by dionne at 8:08 PM No comments: 


man with a plan 


second birthday Posted by dionne at 8:01 PM No comments: Labels: birthday, celebrations, the girl child


autumn color We think she wanted to share her rolls and feed the flowers.
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night scene on a foot stool I saw a little felted stool in Anthropologie that was really cool. It was something like $280 so I came home and made my own.
Originally I had a day scene with a lake, a little cabin, some ducks and trees and whatnot. The background was made from a green wool sweater that I felted in the washing machine. I needle felted most of the flowers, trees and ducks but sewed on the little house. Apparently I didn’t “needle” enough. Within a few days, Naiya had pulled everything but the house from the stool. I decided that I’d rather make something that she could actually play with instead of something just pretty to look at, so I began again. This time I made the night scene and sewed everything on by hand. The background and skyline silhouette are again felted sweaters. The windows and stars are cut out of craft felt. (They just as easily could have been sweaters as well, but I didn’t have those colors.) It stands about 15 inches high and is pretty sturdy but not a very good stool. The styrofoam interior was intended for decor and not for sitting upon. Great to play with though. And one of my favorite creations so far.
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faces from the past These were made a number of years ago. They’re from Sculpey (an oven fired clay). Some were inspired from a book on Fairies. I keep them as magnets on my refrigerator.
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words I say and sign - VII Labels: development, parenting, the girl child
 

words I say and sign - VI

For May, 2008 we've got a lot of word perfecting going on in Naiya's speech as well as some word combining.  I'm having a harder time writing down all the new words I hear her say.  Those I recorded were the following:

nut, light, car, truck, whered'i'go?, Slade, Tim, fox, out, one-two-three, paw, Naiya!, mittens and Dude (always referring to our cat Frodo)

This last one is the result of me trying not to scold our badly behaved cat with more savage words when he pees on something.  "Dude!" once escaped in a harsh expletive-like tone and Naiya has called him Dude ever since.
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words I say and sign - V

For the month of April, 2008 we've added the following to our vocabulary:

rock, Opa, cookie, glasses, egg, poop, moon, stars, keys, pocket, Oma, pee, knock, close, oopsadaisy, pine cone, pear, cat food, treat and monkey
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words I say and sign - IV

I'm not sure how long I'll continue keeping this language development record.  This month we added...

March, 2008
signs only: "cereal, please, rabbit, help"
says & signs: "baby, owl, hat"
says only: "auntie (erin), pants, apple, bottom, pooh (the bear), broccoli, ant, booby, binky, no, goat, chicken, down, pumpkin, flower, coat, frog"
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words I say and sign - III

We're chatting up a storm with this month's additions.

February, 2008:
signs only: "cup, eat, book and mouse"
says & signs: "shoe, bath, dog and cat (she doesn't actually say cat, she says "meow")
says only: "hair, mouth, teeth, clock, spoon, moo (for cow), bear, juice, bubbles, cheese, snake, balm, mama!, fish, clock and sock"
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