List of Words

Mommy is trying to keep track of the words Kaya is using, so here goes:

-Cat, Dog, Bear, Mouse, Moose "Moo", "Baa", "Neigh". And Bug (For the lady bug book)
- Water, Walrus, Rabbit, Moon (for the book Goodnight Moon), and Book.
- Elmo, Mama, Dada, and No.
- Shoes
-"Dis" and Dat.
- Kaya
- Hi, Bye, and Night-night
- Work - because Mommy is always telling her that this is where Dada is! (and it's true..)
- Mess - anytime she drops something on the floor, it's uh oh. mess. uh oh. Kaya is OCD about cleaning just like her relatives!!
- Nose
- Mouth
- Eye
-Bird

First Sentences

Over the last week, Kaya has said two "sentences"! Okay, so they are both short, but we're very proud anyway.
She pointed to the flower on her shirt and said "Dis a flower".
And she also said "I don't know" many times. Given that her favorite word lately is "no" we don't really know if she knows what she's saying - probably not!! but it's cute!!

Tickle Me Elmo - banished

Kaya LOVES Elmo. But the Tickle Me Elmo has proven to be too much for her with his loud, crazy antics. She's afraid of him. So Daddy had to hide him in Mommy's closet - up on the shelf, facing the back wall, for awhile. One night Mommy was sick of Kaya trying to pull diapers out of the diaper pail, so she put Elmo on top to guard it for awhile. And that worked! But later that night, Kaya picked up Elmo and pointed to the bedroom door. Then she went to the closet and tried to open that door. Then she basically 'told' Mommy to put elmo back up on the shelf!

so that's where Elmo stays now. But Kaya likes to visit him several times a day and say Elmo night-night. Just to make sure he's ok. :)

Actual Snow

It snowed for real finally - over 6 inches - and Kaya loved going outside to play in it! Even at 8pm, she kept saying hat, hat hat to Daddy, who finally got her the hat and then figured out that she was trying to tell us she wanted to go outside! So they went out and walked around in the snow for awhile. Kaya loved it - even though she had to wear her snowsuit (which was super cute, by the way). The next morning, Mommy pulled Kaya all around on the sled in the backyard and around the house, and Kaya loved that too. Mommy took lots of pictures.