Day: January 6, 2007

Guess what…

A riddle, what is this? You soak in it, splash around and play in it with a rubber ducky. You can also drink from it, preferrably milk, or soymilk. It also flies through the air going twiet twiet twiet. And finally, its the place one uses as a toilet?

It’s a Badi. That’s what it sounds like to us at least. “Badi” is german babytalk for a bath. “Botti” is a bottle. “Boadi” is a birdie, most likely followed by twiet twiet. And “Potty” is a very urgent matter, and better not misunderstood and discussed for a long time (yes Leilani finally reports having to pee too!! Sometimes). Unfortunately I’m not a good role model for keeping “P” and “B” appart, or “T” and “D”, or “V” and “W” and the “R” is swallowed into an “A” like sound.

Beer and Bear is another one. I’m actually not that happy she says beer at all, but it sure is funny. She saw someone drinking from a beer like bottle at the airport and went “BEEEER!!!”

Also “Wischi” (wipe one’s mouth, german babytalk) and “Fishi” are hard to tell appart by sound, but mostly the context makes it clear.

Other recent words are “Buch” (german book) “Sitzi” (german sit), “Momo” (monkey), “Apple” (any remotely round fruit) “Hei-Hei” (german Night-night), “Ducky” “Jesus”, “Sus” (shoes), “leaf”, “Apa” (open), “Moon” and her new favorite “No”. There are also a few new animals sounds, she does the elephant better than I do, and says Mooo for the cow,

It seems she tacks on an “i” at the end of a lot of words, which I heard a lot of german speaking babies do, and I wonder if I inadvertantly encourage this.

Christmas in Austin

Andy and I decided we’d post at least three articles about Austin, we had such a great vacation and so much fun, not to mention too many photos to put into one article.

We tried to go to midnight mass on the 24th, Rosemary sang in the choir, and Leilani made noise in the back. I took her to see all the pictures, and she learned to say Jesus… she really likes him because he is a baby on all the pictures and nativity displays, and it helped that his name sounds like cheese which is one of her favorite words (whenever the refrigerator door is openend, or a camera points at her). Anyway, I got tired of walking her around and looking at pictures, and she was tired period. Andy took us home then.

In front of the church:
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Inside the church:
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Nativity scene:
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Flowers in front of the altar:
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David, Rosemary, Jim and Andy:
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We opened the presents on the 25th. Leilani helped us unwrap the gifts (“apa, apa” for open) and enjoyed gifts as well as all the attention and the wrapping paper.

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Look what I found in the stocking:
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Leilani actually enjoys being decorated:
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David gave Leilani the spacebear – she likes it a lot.
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