In honor of the season, I would like to invite you to my new/other blog. I started it more than a month ago but I have only told my family about it. The theme is “Counting my blessings” and I post things I am thankful for or sometimes things the kids do that I want to remember. If you would like to check it out here is the link: http://rememberingblessings.blogspot.com/
We had a fun Halloween. I hope you all did, too. Here are some of my favorite pictures of the kids in their costumes. I will post some more fun ones on my other blog.
I asked Hyrum more than a month before Halloween what he wanted to be and he knew right away. He wanted to be a scarecrow so he could “scare away all the birds” and be “really scary.” He got the idea from Bob the Builder and his only requirement was a long pointy nose like Spud the Scarecrow. So I made one for him. It was orange even though it looks yellow in this picture.
At the end of the night Adam told him he was the “best scarecrow” and Hyrum said, “I don’t want to be the best scarecrow. I want to be the scariest scarecrow!”
And introducing the terror of the seas… the dread Pirate Annie!
Wouldn’t this picture be so neat with her standing on a cliff over looking the ocean?
And here is my favorite picture of the day.
Annie surprises me every day with her new words and phrases. She is 17 (close to 18) months and I think she says somewhere between 50 and 100 words. Her pronunciation is often not very good, but she will usually try to say anything we ask her to. I’ve been meaning to do a post like this for months. So sorry if it is long, but I’m catching up a bit. Here are some of Annie’s latest words and phrases:
When we tell her not to do something or to do something she doesn’t want to do, she often responds with “why?” I think she learned it from Hyrum and I’m still not sure if she knows what it means.
She showed me a tail that had broken off of a toy cat and said, “meow bwoke.”
She wants to be able to do up her own seat belt on her high chair and sometimes even her car seat. A couple days ago when I was doing up her seat belt she said, “Let me do it!”
Probably the longest combination of words she has come up with is “baw-ul dweek moke all gone” (bottle drink milk all gone) which doesn’t exactly make sense, but got the point across anyway.
After she had gotten tired of eating frozen veggies (she likes the frozen mix still frozen), she was squishing the peas one by one with her finger and saying “doowish.”
She was excited to find a new package of diapers and said “Annie bappers!” Then she picked them up and said “bappers hewee” (diapers heavy).
“Swee-oot gone” It took me a minute to figure out what she was saying, but then a realized she was looking for her swim suit.
When she hears anything that she thinks sounds like the garage door opening or the front door unlocking she says “daddy home!” And she runs excitedly toward the door. But then as soon as the door opens and Adam walks in (if it really was him), she turns around and runs away. It seems like either she wants him to follow her or she doesn’t want him to know how excited she is.
Here are some of my favorite words she says now: 
- Hi-um (Hyrum)
- mama
- da-ee or daddy
- baby
- “unch” (lunch) and “nack” (snack—what she calls a granola bar)
- happy (I’m not sure if she knows what it means but it is cute when she randomly says it)
- “wash hans” or “hans duh-ee” (hands dirty– she does not like dirty hands), ees (please)
- “hankoo” or “dindoo” (thank you)
- okay or more often “okaaeee” (“Do you want some more milk?” “Okaaaee”)
- bed hime (bedtime)
I love watching her learn and grow! She is still my little snuggle buddy and loves to give me hugs and be held. She loves playing with Hyrum, doing what Hyrum does, reading books on our laps, playing with dolls and toys and exploring but staying close to mommy.
So Tonight during his prayer he said "Bless Mommy that she can be good tomorrow." I guess we need all the help we can get.
