Happy Holidays!

Here are some photo's from Christmas this year. Hope you all had a good holiday!

Burpin' the baby.

Words

Katie's been using sign language since she was 9 mo. old. While she did stop signing while she learned to walk, she made up for it right after. She now picks up signs very quickly and even makes up her own. (It can be a little challenging trying to find out what some of the made up ones mean.) I've been trying to compile a list of the words she can sign...but there are new ones all the time. I'm gonna try again, here we go:

Ball, bird, water, horse, fish,
more, eat, banana, turtle, peas,
sheep, dog, cat, change, diaper,
up, cracker, book, sleepy, bath,
toothbrush, hairbrush, shoes, flower, airplane,
daddy, pig, dirty, baby, bubbles,
dinosaur, bean, milk, teeth, go,
bunny, and bellybutton

She is also starting to say words, although her pronunciation is not quite perfect most of the time. Here are the words she can say:

Bubbles, dada, mama, cracker (Ka Ker), hi,
bellybutton (bell bun), yes (yep), no (nope), go, water (wah wah),
book (booo), and Bum Paste (bu pahss)
**You can thank Johnny for that last one.**

She is also great with exclamations. "oh!" "oops!" "ahh!" and "un-oh" are her very favorites, and she uses them frequently.

I see some peas.

Our year in pictures

Katie's New Hat

I crocheted this cute hat for Katie...she hates it. Good thing it has a chin strap...harder for her to rip off her head. I had to distract her by letting the dog attack her ball just so I could snap these photo's. *sigh* she is so unappreciative. ;)

A walk in the Gardens

Johnny and I took Katie to The Japanese Gardens...the very place that Johnny proposed to me. :) Katie had so much fun looking at the koi and signing "fish". So cute! She was amazed at the peacocks and kept saying "peh'COCK" LOL. Here are some pictures:

Signing "fish"

She wanted to climb of this bridge and into the water SO badly!

Pointing out the "peh'COCKS" in case we missed them.

What is Katie pointing out now?
More "peh'COCKS" of course!

A Pinky sized bridge for peaking over.

We had to drag her away from this bridge...she would have spent all day climbing up it if we had let her.