Buddha’s Vocab

Posted by tata on Friday Nov 28, 2008 Under Kids and Family, Video

As I mentioned in my last post, Buddha’s vocabulary is really growing. He’s also really good at identifying body parts, the most recent he’s learned being his eyebrows. The video is hilarious; he cracks us up wiggling them up and down.

He’s a thrill to watch these days. He’s trying to count and can say “one,” “two,” and “three” but he tends to get fixated on one of those while counting. Lately, it’s three. He doesn’t seem to favor any color, but he will group things by color (particularly those gears from Gramma and Grampa). He adores his sister and will mimic her every move - sometimes not so great! He’s going to sleep more swiftly these days, even requesting “night-night” as early as 6:30pm! He only nurses for about 45 minutes a day now, typically divided into 3 sessions (morning, night and occasionally at nap time). When he’s finished nursing before bed, he reaches for the crib and says “night-night.” He likes his hand to be held as he’s falling asleep, though. And yes, we indulge him. After all, it’s sweet and before long, we’ll embarrass him. He likes to brush his teeth (and everything else with the toothbrush). He drives us crazy by pouring out the water from his cup (which is a big boy cup) onto the floor or couch or table and slurp the water up, yes, even from the rug. He loves the telephone and pushing the buttons, although he tends to play shy when there is actually someone on it trying to talk to him. He loves going out. He is very insistent at times about it, too. He’ll demand his sweater, socks and shoes and then start repeating “bye-bye!” in a very stern voice. He’s obsessed with the light switches in the house. If we’d let him, he’d dismantle everything in the entire house and then throw it. My little quarterback-in-training!

So here’s a list we’ve compiled of words he knows. It is most certainly an incomplete list.

People
Mama
Daddy
Joy
Honey!
Hi Buddy! (it’s what he calls my brother, Big Rob)
Oma

Food
cup (sounds like “guck”)
milk (sounds like “mup”)
water (sounds like “wah-wah”)
eat
bites
fries
more
hot
bowl (sounds like “bow”)
fork (there is no way I could figure out how to write what this sounds like!)

Greetings/Manners
hello
hi
hey
bye
night-night
please
thank you
excuse me (sounds like “mech may”)
bless you

Body Parts
eyes
ears
nose
teeth (sounds like “teese”)
arms
elbow (sounds like “belbow”)
knee
piggies
toes
shoe (sounds like “hues”)
sock (sounds like “ock”)

Miscellaneous
up
down (sounds like “dow”)
on
off
sit
light
ball
book (sounds like “bup”)
baby
kitty
fish
glasses
clothes (sounds like “coze”)
home
bath
want
mine
rock (sounds like “ock”)
blocks (sounds like “bops”)
NO!

Phrases
What?
Boo!
You!
Alright!
C’mon
Again!
Whoa!
Ow!
Ew!
I got you!
I got it!
Ah, man!
Where’d it go?
There it is!
All done!
All gone!

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Buddha in Motion

Posted by tata on Sunday Nov 2, 2008 Under Video

Some new videos of Buddha for your viewing pleasure!

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Common Ground

Posted by tata on Monday Oct 6, 2008 Under Events, Video

After Joy’s party-at-the-park on Saturday, Big Rob accompanied us back to our place. He kicked it there with us until it was time for the show. I got very short notice that Common Ground was reuniting for a show on October 4th and my generous brother agreed to hang out with my kids so Husband and I could go. YAY!

He had a great time dancing with the baby and it was pretty funny. Love the Grateful Dead and my weirdo family heart

AbsinthHow the Butterflies DancedAfter getting Buddha to sleep and the girls settled in quietly (so’s not to wake the sleep babe), Big Rob shared his bottle with us. Mom brought the bottle back from Germany for him.

Husband had one shot and I had two shots of Absinth. Good gravy, but is it potent! And surprisingly tasty. It looks and tastes like NyQuil, only more robust and… for lack of a better word, hot.

I love the caption on the back of the bottle. It says “…und ich sah, wie die Schmetterlinge tanzten” which means “…and I saw, how the butterflies dance.”

By the time we were halfway to the show, I had a pretty strong, but very clean buzz.

We got to Headliners Music Hall just as Common Ground took the stage. I was so excited to be seeing them play again! They split about 4 years ago, but I hadn’t seen them play since 2002 when they opened for none other than Vanilla Ice. Unfortunately, we got there late and I only saw one song that night. Worse still, my friend insisted we stay and watch Vanilla Ice! I stayed in touch with the band via their message board, but eventually the forum became a ghost town.

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