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Learning Every Day

How does this happen? I have no clue... but it didnt seem to bother her (yes I fixed her leg after I took the pic, so she could peacefully finish her nap) Such an angel baby!

I put my hoodie on her, and thought she looked so cute! She seemed to enjoy it! (except when I put the hood up, hehe)
Monkey See, Monkey Do! Diella is copying her cousins Jeff & Jasmine. Not even sure what they were doing, but I love seeing her play copy cat!

I took a few other pictures, like some of dada tossing her in the air & catching her... she Loves it! In the pix it looks like she's a mile in the air (cuz of the angle) But I posted some on MySpace and everyone's comments are like they're afraid to even look at them, so I decided to not put them on here & possibly freak all of you out too.

*Diella has this new laugh, that we are in love with! Of course it will be hard to describe on here, but its this open-mouth laugh and really like Ha ha ha. A LITTLE bit of a grunt in there too, its absolutely adorable! You cant Not laugh back, when she does it!

*We say, "Diella, why are you so cute?" - She shrugs, hehe I love that! And when we ask her a question she doesnt know the answer to, she turns her hand up... like when you hold both hands out, like 'where is it' or 'I dunno' ... like that, with one hand, flipped over.... cute!

*Did I blog that she is officially running? It's official! This girl can book it!

*I noticed something today, I've said before how she likes to bring us adult shoes and put them on... she still does, but I noticed today that she always brings me a Pair! So does that mean she's making matches?? I'll hafta test that out with some similar things one'a these days.

*There are a few new words she's gotten! As you know, Diella still has a hard time saying things crystal clearly... but she's getting better with at least trying different sounds... like she says Doggy!!! That was a big one, I was excited! She's finally learned where her eyes are, but only when we ask her to Blink her eyes, not just where are they... and so we taught her the word Eyes, and she's got that one! But sometimes leaves the 's' off, just eye... hehe... and with all the blue berries that my parents have been picking from our backyard lately (literally gallons & gallons this season)... Jake has been trying to teach her the word ''berry' and she's close :)

*well, as usual, there's more I'm sure... but thats all for now folks :)

*I tried to separate these paragraphs, I dunno why they wont.. sorry about that...

~Kat

Quick One

This is my BEAST little girly, pickin up TWO horseshoes! She walked them over to me as I click click clicked as she came, and the determination on her face was incredible! Not to mention the pained look "Ooo these are heavy" .... muscles!!!

She finally took a bow yesterday, like Ahna has been trying to teach her :) My parents, the 3 of us, and the Stickel family all ate out on the deck last night, and after dinner we watched the kids be goofy, and as we laughed and applauded for silly things that Diella was doing, Ahna said 'take a bow' and she did! Hilarious!

Also this night, I asked the family if we could play a quick game, sort of a test to see if Diella would pass.... we all sat in a circle around her, and asked her "Where's ___?" and went through each person, Ahna, Papa, Dada, Aunt Alethea, Uncle Jer, Jasmine, Caeden, Jeff, Colton, & Mommy.... the first half of us she got quickly & easily, then I think she got bored with it, cuz the last few, she'd look over at that person and sort of identify them with her eyes, but not walk over to them... so we knew she knew, but she was just done answering such Simple questions! hehehe

I've told you all how she rolls her toes, well she still does, but we've noticed that she often does it when we say hello to her, almost like she's waving with her feet, its so funny! And she does it alot! Even one morning when I got her from her crib, laying on her back, she sticks one foot in the air & rolls those little toes at me, like a little foot greeting, silly girl!

And Diella is saying MommIE.... still Mama too, but yesterday she couldnt stop repeating, Mommie, mommie, mommie.... I think it was just more fun for her to say, that she discovered how to do it, rather than just saying my name just beacuse... but it was still great to hear!!!

Oh yea, and she says Buh Bye!!!! Yaaaaaay!!! :)

Short One

When I take Diella in front of a full length mirror, I ask her, who is that? She'll just smile, but then I say go give her a kiss, and she'll kiss herself :) hehe... now she does it almost every time she sees a mirror, lol, I hope I havent created a monster!

I Love this about Diella.... she is part girly girl & part tom boy... she loves to play with cars & trucks & ride the tractor... but she also loves to put on bracelets & necklaces & fancy shoes! I'm so glad she likes both!!

Ahna is trying to teach Diella how to take a bow... she did it once, and she's almost got it down, but we'll get the hang of it... its cute!

And lately, (oh I GOTTA get a pic of this!)... if she's really upset or really happy, she puts both hands on her face... like all dramatically, if she's crying, like "Oh no!" hands on face... or like giddy happy, hands on face, like Eeeee!!

There are a bunch of things we're working on, that I'll let you know when we've accomplished them... like the sign for Amen.... like colors, face parts, more animal sounds, lots of things!.... Oh yea!!... she learned in one try (and has done this consistently ever since) how to do pinchers with her hands when we ask her 'what does a crab do?' Its cute!

I did a little mini photoshoot with her this morning, and these 4 are just a few of the best that I took, there are a few more on MySpace of course, and I wanna do more!!! People keep telling me to enter them into contests, and I'm starting to think that this little gorgeous girl could win some stuff with that pretty little face of hers!!!