More Everyday!

These are pix of Diella being silly! she's so good at that, I'll tel ya. She walked in with the pants on her head & just stood there until I laughed. Was hilarious! Then she's playing the drums, as she loves to do. The one in her high chair is also her just tryin to make me laugh :) ... and that other one is from tonight. She asked her dad if he would take her for a walk (around the house of course, its still too cold for outside here)... and so she put on her boots & hat & off they went.... so cute!

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Usually, when Diella is done reading a book, she closes it & says 'all done' but all of a sudden the other day she says "A end!" (the end)... and I dont think I ever said that... and so I asked Ahna to see if Diella had picked it up from her, nope! Silly girl! Dont you wonder where they pick stuff up from? So neat!

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ok, so as I said, she's been jumping for almost 2 months now.... well she has taken it to a new level... she likes to jump OFF of things... first it was just from her dad's back (while he's laying on his tummy) to the floor, then it was off the seat of her rocket, about eh a foot off the ground... then the other day, she crawled onto the seat of the glider (rocking chair) in her room & jumped to the floor! I was surprised, cuz the seat glides! Its not even a solid ground to jump from! ... sometimes she would hafta fall to her hands to catch her balance, other times she would 'stick it' ... and then 2 days ago, she got onto the couch in the living room (probly almost 2 feet) & looked as though she was gonna jump... I just stayed close, curious to what she would do... sure enough, there she went! She had so much momentum, that she had no choice but to catch herself on her hands as she propelled forward, then of course her face continues to the floor! It hurt a little, I bet, but she didnt seem upset... cuz of course 2 mins later, she tries it again... and, hehe, same result, so a 2nd face-plant, sigh* She hasnt tried it since, so I think she might wait to attempt that death-defying stunt again, hehe

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She can finally count to five on her own, and knows most of her numbers by sight, still confuses 5 & 6 I think.... and not much progress with colors either (although I only blogged what, 2 weeks ago?)... knows purple & orange... sometimes gets red, blue & pink right... still working on em..

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Some of the things she says alot are "Watch!" when she wants us to watch her (so, *cough* all the time, hehe)... but she says it like Botch (like watch with a B sound at the beginning)... there are some words that start with S that she leaves the S off, like snack is nack... but then randomly once in a while she'll ADD an S to words that dont need it, hehe... like she's been saying the word 'more' for I dunno how long, then all of sudden lately, it has turned to mores, hehe.. soometimes she says more, sometimes mores... silly girl... She also says 'there it is!" all the time! (sounds like 'de diz') whenever she finds something. And She Always says Woah, and its adorable! She'll spin in a circle (jus bein hyper), and go "woooooah" you should hear the inflection in the voice, different ways she says it, SOOO Cute! ... oh and then once the other day, she left the room to get something & said "B Back" (cuz I do that all the time when I leave a room, tell her i'll be right back)... and she did, she came right back, hehe.... she's also starting to catch onto the names of the rooms, cuz I'll ask her where something is & she'll point & say "boooom" (room) and go get it from that room, or I'll tell her to go get something from the whatever room & she always gets the right one!

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My last blog said how she loves saying the letter L now, cuz she finally can do it correctly, and how she calls herself "Ella" ... well we go over writing & spelling her name alot & she loves that... so we'll do one letter at a time & then I say 'what does that spell?' and she goes "Ella!!!" ... sometimes I ask her to try & spell it & say 'what comes first?' ... only once or twice she started with D, and I think only once she did D & I & E... but I think that was luck, cuz she usually says A or L first, hehe

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ok, now a few fun things.... We've been getting her to practice saying the names we've picked out for the new baby... she's really good at them! :) (Sayda & Ethan)... only Ethan sounds like E-tin, but the 'th' sound is hard, cmon! ... hehe, I just wonder if she'll call the new baby by both names, since we've been teaching her both & not just one, hehe

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I also said in my last blog how she picked up a few signs from this new video she has, on her own, without my help... it was just 2 or 3 new signs, but after a few more times watching it... this girl has learned 14 new signs, by herself from this video! They are tree, flower, cup, bowl, refrigerator, ball, bear, bed, swing, chair, table, mirror, computer, & book! I mean, she hasnt perfected them... alot of them are tricky with the finger movements, but she knows what she's signing & does them on command, its pretty incredible!

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My last blog said how she's close to getting her own pants on... well the other day, she came SO close with not only her pants, but her shirt too! Dressed herself about, eh, lets say 90% on her own... I only tugged on the material maybe once for each, the shirt & the pants, the rest was all her! She did great! .... Other thing she did almost all by herself the same day was... (oh man, it jus freaks me out thinking about it...)... get out of her crib!!! I didnt expect this til she was at least 2 years old! this girl is a climber! (got out of the pack'n'play the other day at grammie's house, so they said I dont need to bring it anymore, hehe, sigh*)... she calls me & I go in to get her from her nap & she's laying across the railing on her belly, hanging onto the corner, held her hand out & said help... i said 'no, silly, you gotta figure this out' ... so I finally held her hand to get back IN the crib, then I put the side down to get her out... she yelled at me & goes "No! Up!" ... lol, so I put the side back up & she attempts it again! Same thing, laying on the edge, hanging onto the corner, then her feet begin to dangle over the side (I'm staying very close, ready to help, but curious to see how far she'll get on her own)... so she finally lets go & I catch her on the way down... she lands fine getting off our bed & my parents' bed, which are both pretty high, but I was more concerned with her hitting her chin than falling to her butt... so I think it might be a matter of days (MAYBE a week or two) til she can do it herself completely! Noooo!!!

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like a few times she has called picture of people Mama, Ahna, or Papa... like once she called a pic of Cinderella- mama, and the guy in the yellow hat on Curious George, she calls papa, and once a girl in a magazine was Ahna... at first, I thought she was thinking Cinderlla was me & that guy was was her Papa & that woman was her Ahna... but then we realized she's saying that girl is A mama, and that guy is A papa... like today in the waiting room, she pointed to a lady & said mama, and to a guy & said papa... so they're not specifically HER mama or papa, but someone's mama or papa, hehe, aw

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ok, at the end of "Evan Almighty" the song "Everybody Dance Now" plays... and I had Caeden & Jeff over this day... so the 3 of us get up to dance to it & Diella just squeals with excitement & joins right it! Then its over & of course she says "Genn!" so we play it again, and again, and again... she could not get enough, it was hilarious! Then today in the car, I played "Jump, Jive, & Wail"... same story, she asked me to play it over & over... good songs choices, Diella! :-D

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And the BEST story... Often times when we're just sitting, relaxing on the couch at night before bed, I will stroke her hair or just run my fingers along her arm of back, she has always loved this, she calls it 'ticka ticka' (like tickle)... but then the other night, after I played with her hair for a lil bit, I put a pillow on her lap & laid my head down on her lap, so she gently stroked My hair!!! Not only that, after a minute, I lifted my head and she said "Down" & pointed down to the pillow... so I lay my head back down & she continued! It was a Very Special Moment for me!