Pink on pink

Our fashion choices...

... were a bit of a grab bag today.

Children's Discovery Museum

?!?!

I put Ly down in the center of this blanket, with her feet pointing toward the bottom left of the photo. I went to peek in at a napping Moss and walked back to this. What in the everliving heck. Again I say, she has to be older than she looks. I half wonder if I actually gave birth in October and just didn't notice. If I hadn't been literally staring at a sleeping Moss, I would have assumed he ran up, picked her up and dragged her by the feet, and ran away. Precocious roly poly baby.

Bear-eared bunny shirt

My big kid baby

Bol park

My wise little owl

Lyra is older than she looks, I think. She is exquisitely intuitive and always seems to know just what you need. Very special.

Caw caw caw

Who wears short shorts

Oh my little little boy, maybe someday your shorts won't look like pants. Someday.

Enchanted evenings at Google

Because of course they have a rock garden

And Lisa sent a library

And lovely places to sit

And weird spaces to explore

And bubbles.

Everything's better when dad gets home

Ly being Ly

Explosive radiating growth

Moss's vocabulary explosion started this month.  Holy moly.  I've been trying to keep track of his lexicon, but it's getting too hard.  For example, I clearly have a video of him saying broccoli, but it totally escaped my log for that day and the video reminded me to add it just now.  So here's the most complete record possible as of today; I suspect by the end of the month it will be too much to track without hiring a videographer of our lives.

FIRST WORDS (2014)
Da
Quack quack (always whispered, for some reason Moss only tells us duck secrets)
~~~
Wuh wuh -dog
Bloop -fish
~~~
Meow
Moo
(Motor noise)
Bss -bzz
~~~
Down (always enunciated as from this ridiculous skit, which is how I always say it http://youtu.be/1-Dn-01wg5QAah)
aah aah aah -monkey
Dain -train
Boom -moon
Ma
No
Whoa
Outs -outside
(Sniffing noise) -spider and webby looking things like hairballs and white dandelion fuzz
Mama
~~~ November-December 2014
Uhoh
Mmm -yum
Bar
Whee
Cool
Hot
Baby
Caw caw -birds
Beep beep -wheeled things
Gal -ball
Weewee -seaweed
Eh eh -stuck
Dot
Up
Yeah
Yes
Ah ah ah - monkey
Dingaling -bell
Dibbledopp -rain
Cuck cuck -rooster, chicken
(Cough noise) -various farm animals
Rock
Key
Ooohn -hug
Mmmm -kiss
Ly
~~~ January 2015
EO -this is his word for letters and the alphabet
Bmoom -Balloon
Bowl
Hole
Hat
Dirty
Eat
(Roar noise) -dinos and big cats
Stick
Toot
Light
Home
Daisy
(High pitched short scream) -spilled or splashing liquids and other mass nouns
Eye
Pee
Ant
Meat
Me
Brr
(Ooooo) -whale

Also, at the end of Jan, 30 or 31, Moss pointed at Ben's shoe and said Dada. This predicts his first 2 word utterance as arriving around the first week of March.
~~~
2/1
Annie
Boba
Cacti
Tea
A
B
C
D
E
F
H
I
K
M
O
P
Q
R
S
T
Y
1
2
3
7
8
Bean
Nonie -nursing

2/2
Truck
Deandaddy
Rake

2/3
Sarah
Boat
Heart

2/4
Walk
Ruby
Apple
Dinosaur
Buckle
Broccoli
Book
Shoe
Foot
Fork

2/5
*point at Sherlock book* + Dada
Robot
Leaf
Chalk
Razzlebee
Bubble
Ring
Hand
Water
Butt
Rocket

2/6
Guy
Wind
Aoro
Aowie
Boo
Bread
Plate
Chicken
Duck
Burp
Boy
Girl

2/7
Mimi
Digger
Blast off

2/8
Die

2/9
Push
Go
Weeohwee -Oreo (omg he has never had one, but its early appearance in his vocabulary makes me want to rethink my own life choices)

2/10
Mouth
Lyra
Plane
Cloud
Sky
Day
Tree
Gigi
Back
Wipe
Box
Bork -Parker
Beat -Pete

2/11
Penguin
On
Off
Bootie
Rice
Wall
Buddy
Bubba
Unk -Adam

2/12
Penis
Wet
Yellow
Walk
Wrap
Ass
Trash
Big
Bike
Egg
Damn

2/13
Pitchkey -chickpea
Door
Bag
Berry

2/15
Happy
Book read (maybe first 2 word utterance, or maybe two words spoken quickly in succession)
Bin
Whoa oo oh -gluestick song
More
Shovel
Red

2/16
Park
Froggy
Wash
Safe
Block
Pretty
Mans -snowman pants with many snowmans

~~~ SIGNS
More -typical form
Milk -typical form
Food/eat -typical form
Bath -flat palms on chest
Sleep -lies down on ground
Moon -flat palm sweeps on head from back to front
Poop -typical form
Drink -purses lips like sucking from a straw
Dad -points at side of head
Sand -typical form
Playground -pointer fingertips together
Crab -c-shaped hand, fingertips to thumb tip like pinching
Diaper -typical form
Airplane -arm sweeping upward and waving around above head

~~~?
Minima
Gakknn
Dah'mm

The aforementioned broccoli video

Animal sounds

This kid knows all but about 6 letters. I did not push for it. I am OK with this. :)

Names of important people came quickly out of the blue

Still working to get everyone's on video

What did the groundhog say?

6 more weeks of winter? Fine by us...


Romanesco NO-MANESCO

Thanks Pete and Anna!

How do you make a little boy say pbthpbthpbthpbthpbthpbthpbthpbth for an entire morning? Put on his helicopter monster shirt from "Beat 'n Uhnah" and give him a matchbox helicopter.

An inevitability

Moss watched me pick up dog poop with a large shovel, walked purposefully to his sandbox, grabbed a trowel and started "helping". Gross.

It's 75 degrees here

#sorrynotsorry


Showing Ly some yoga moves


Taking a rest

How do you say love: A Dad post

Today we went for a walk to burn off some energy before Moss's nap.  We live near Moffett Air FIeld, and there's a constant stream of training flights in large cargo planes.  Moss loves these planes, and always points them out and makes plane noises.

The rear cargo hatch was open, and the plane was flying slow and level, so Moss was treated to several rounds of jump training.  He kept saying what I thought was "wind" and pointing into the air.  He said "sky" and "cloud" as well (both firsts) which may have colored my interpretation.  When I realized he was saying "plane", he threw his hands into the air, spun around, and laughed and then did it again for good measure.

We ambled along, picking up rocks and leaves.  Right before we arrived at our goal, one of the neighbors' cactus gardens, we saw a rollie pollie.  Moss watched as I showed him this weird wriggling thing and was surprised when it balled up.  Before he could stomp it, we moved on to the cacti.

He happily chanted "cactee" as we looked at the spines and prickly pears.

He was starting to wind down at this point, so I scooped him up and we walked home.  He had a few more first words ("car" and "truck").

Just before we went in the house, I said, "Moss, I love you.  Can you say love?"

He didn't say anything at all he just gave me a kiss.

Microposts return

I have too many amazing pictures and stories to keep to myself, but not enough personal bandwidth to craft elaborate weekly posts. Let's experiment with this and see if it's sustainable: at least once every day I'll post a picture or two, an anecdote, and/or a video with one or both babies. I document these little moments for Ben while he's at work anyway, I might as well just take the extra 2 steps and publish them for acclaim and posterity. :)

Moss and Lyra are crazy about each other. I cannot believe how lucky we are that this part has been so easy so far. Hope it stays.