Toddler Dictionary

A again amazing Amelie “Ami” ant apple arm auntie B baby ball balloon banana “banna” beach bear bed Ben Bert bib binky birdie bite blanket "Bless you" blueberry “blu-blu” boo-boo boogins book boots box Brady broccoli “brockie” broken brush bum bunny butt bye C Calliou car carrot cat chair cheek Cheerios cheese chicken chin close cloud coat coffee "cocky" cold color Cookie Count cow cracker cup cupcake “cake-cake” cut cute D Daddy “Daddy, look – a puppy!” dance diaper dinosaur “diney” dog down drum E ear eat eggs eight elephant “ah-ant” Elmo empty Ernie "Excuse me" eye eye brows F fall feet fish five flip-flop flower foot fork four fox fridge frog funny G game Goldfish "Golda" goose Gordon Grover “Groger” gym H hair hand happy hat head heart help here hi hot horse hug hurt I "I did it" “I don’t know” “I got you!” “I’m coming!” "I need it" ice-cream iPad J Jack juice jump K kiss knee L llama leg light lion “liney” lips look "Love you" Lucia "Lu" or "Chia" M me “meet you” Mia milk "mulk" mine Mommy monkey moon more mouse mouth munchkin “My doggy book” N Nana nap nine “no chicken” nose O ocean "Oh God" okay one onion open orange Oscar outside owl P panda pants Papa pasta pee-pee phone pickle pig please poopy potty present puppy Q R rabbit rain rash read red remote “ma-mote” Robyn rock run running S sand Sara seagull seal seven shirt silky sip shoes shoot shower six sleep slippery "slippy" snack snake sneakers "sneaky" snow Snuffy “Snucky” snuggle “snuggy” sock sorry spider spill spoon stand star stinky-feet stop strawberry ”straw-ba” stuck sun swim T table teeth Telly temp ten “Thank you” three tickle tiger toast toes toot train truck turkey turkey-baby turtle two U uncle up upside-down upstairs V W "Wha happened?" walk walking wash water “Where are you?” Winston work X Yyak yay yogurt you yuck Z zebra

Look Who's Talking

Time is flying! Learning to share is getting interesting. They are very sweet to each other, but they can get territorial with toys. It depends on the day - one will want everything that the other one has. As soon as Amelie even touches something of interest to Lucia, Lu's high pitched alarm sounds "Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!", remove hand, alarm off.

The girls crack up when we smell their feet and say "P-U!", then they respond with "Stinky!!"

They want to walk everywhere! Very good about holding Mommy's and Daddy's hands.

Loving to climb up the couch and play with the light switch. Knowing its a no-no, she will climb up and turn to me with a little grin. The other day while I was getting their lunch ready, Lucia knocked over the gate, went up to her room and closed the door. I didn't realize until I heard her little foots steps running back and forth in her bedroom. One more year, and my entire head of hair will be completely white.

Their hair is long enough for pigtails, but they don't last long.

What's In? Showers, Sesame Street, The Cat in the Hat ("At"), chocolate covered raisins, running around on the porch, legos, playing in the kitchen, shoes, iPad games, coloring, and climbing up and down the stairs!

Amelie's little raspy voice is so cute. She is still very connected to her "binkies" but only at bedtime. Its amazing how quickly she picked up the iPad - with her favorite game, she spells out the names of animals with ease. She also lets me know when she poops...potty training is right around the corner.

Lu loves to build with the legos and Amelie loves to knock them all down...which leads to "Mommy-Mommy!" (The double Mommy is an absolutely adorable new development.)

The girls are also starting to use "Please" and "Thank you". Unfortunately we also learned "Boo-Boo" and "Uh-Oh" recently...now that I think of it, Lucia also says "Oh God"...Mommy will have to work on that one. Lots of "Hi's" and "Bye's". Lucia pretends that a little ring box is a flip phone and answers "Hello?". Amelie is catching up with Lu's chattiness. She sat on the floor the other day and pretended to read an entire book to me. Some other adorable translations:

Ami = Amelie
LuLu = Lucia
Liney = Lion
Money = Monkey
Happened? = What happened?
Aside? = Outside?
Banna = Banana
Fuffle = Waffle
Bood = Bird
Ma-Milk (Amelie says Mulk) = Milk
And last and favorite, Nuggy = Snuggle

Who is it?

Next to You

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes!

We are having a blast with these girls. Every day they surprise us with new things. They kiss and hug each other, and even give Mommy and Daddy unsolicited kisses! This is a very big deal.

Practicing animal names and sounds, humoring us with the family roll call (mama, dada, nana, papa, "Dack", Ben and "Bady" so far), singing and dancing all serve as the groundwork for their daily development.

At home, they love to dance to Daddy's music, gather their small toys (and shoes) into little piles, and tear all their books off the shelves. #1 on the reading list has to be: "Is Your Mama a Llama?"

They also spend a couple days a week with Robyn and little Sara Salvanelli, where they have "circle time", dance to the Laurie Berkner Band, and do arts and crafts projects.

Elmo is a very popular guy right now... so are yogurt covered raisins.

The girls are averaging a new word just about every day (today was "giraffe") but put a cell phone in a girl's hand (backwards), and she'll walk around the room yelling gibberish into it for 5 minutes.

Peek-a-boo is a big hit at our house, only instead of "Boo!" they say "Baaaaah!". They love to stand in front of the closet door and let the scarves that hang from the hooks cover their faces. Sometimes you get a "Baah" and other times, you get a poop. You gotta roll with it.

Their latest obsession has become burrowing their heads into the back of the couch. They'll try to pull up the couch cushion whether we're sitting on them or not. Lucia, with both arms and all the strength of her little body, trying to heave up the cushion from under me - its quite a sight. A miniature body builder. A senseless exercise that she refuses to come to terms with quickly escalates into a very dramatic ordeal - screaming - the whole nine yards until I move out of the way.

"Mama" is definitely the cool chic and soother of choice right now - this I'm trying to embrace until the daddy-phase inevitably begins.