Heading into 1 and a 1/2!

She isn't quite there yet! October 30th will be her true one and a half birthday! But I haven't done a River update in quiet a while. It's long overdue so we'll do it now.

Since I got a third job, things got very crazy there for a minute. Once I stopped working on weekends things have been MUCH better! This weekend was really great. Wednesday we are planning to take her to her first Balloon Fiesta! Exciting.


River's words (new from the last list):

Milk
Elmo
Abby
Apple
beans
beads
shoes
eye
nose
no
duck
nonni
juice
house
snack
up and down
moon
wow
beep
mine
uncle
ball
bull
baby
walk
more
toes
bath
Bee/bees (she saw one outside)
Ra (rabbit)
butt
knee
Yuck (this has been a favorite lately)
Nasty (this one too for some reason. I think she finds it funny)
Meat
daddy
book
mice
nice

Phrases:
Hi mommy/ hi daddy
No mommy/ no daddy
Oh nonni!
It's a.......

How she identifies things she doesn't have words for:
Rawr! (Lion/tiger/bear)
Nay nay (horse)
Oo! Oo! Oo! Ah ah! (monkey)
Hoo Hoo! (owl)
Meow meow (cat)
Woof (dog)
beep beep (walking backward
Mah (nursing)
Brrrrummmmm (car/truck/motorcycle)
Airplane noise w/arms either flailing or motioning like a flying airplane (airplane)
num num (food)

What River has been:
Somersaulting
Dancing ;)
Keeping a beat
Coloring
Running a lot!

River has been working really REALLY hard on:
Jumping (she can finally jump! 10/15/12)

River is very helpful with:
Sweeping
Taking things to the trash

River doesn't know it but is looking forward to:
Getting new shoes
Snow/tobogganing
Being a bee for Halloween

Misc.:
We were driving down Montgomery turning onto the street next to my parents' house and I asked her where we were. She responded, "Nonni!!!"