Seventeen Months

The Nugget is 17 mos. and is finally saying "boob"! It's been her favorite thing since taking a breath, and until now has never asked for it by name. It's the sweetest sounding "boob" I have ever heard, too.
I would have thought "boob" would have been up there on this list of firsts... "uh-oh", "help", even full sentences came first.
I guess what's the point when we had a nonverbal agreement that she can have "boob" whenever she desires.
I must admit hearing her little sweet voice coo "boob" has me excited about nursing, again.

Viva la BOOB!

** I just wanted to update, it is more of a little "boop" than "boob"... and now that she knows how to say it, she is wanting it all of the time. "boop, boop, boop"***

Lazy Summer Days

(clockwise from left)
Irina, Shakti, and Bea

I am beginning to see the light...

at the end of the diapering tunnel.

I wash a couple of diapers (apprx. half a pail) weekly. Beatrix has a couple of accidents during the days and is wearing a diaper at night for sleeping. She will even initiate her own use of the small potty, and then come get me to show her awesome achievement.
Irina, too, is using the potty on her own initiation and having fewer accidents. They are both taking their pants off when the pottying urge comes to them.
It's very exciting for me to think that within a few months I may not have dirty diapers to change and wash on a daily basis.

Baby's First Burn & Haircut

Memorial Weekend 2010, the family took a little camping trip. Beatrix loved every minute of it (except the ant bites). She swam all day and played all night with a few close friends.
She learned how to blow a whistle that was gifted to her and wears it pretty much all day at home.
The only casualties were her long tresses of hair, by the first night they were tangled and dreaded into one dreadlock on the back of her head. She is enjoying her new chic haircut!

(notice the whistle around her neck)

As you can see we have been quite busy since my previous post...
We celebrated Beatrix's first birthday with family and pizza on St Valentine's Day. A week later we moved to our new house only a block away from the house Beatrix was born in. The neighborhood is great and the neighbor's have been welcoming. We went straight to work planting a kitchen garden in the big backyard as soon as we moved in. Easter brought us 4 chicks and they are living in their new house built by Christian from left over scraps from our neighbor's sculpture the Cathedral of Junk.
Beatrix enjoys the new yard and loves her chickens. She will make the ASL sign and say something that sounds a lot like chicken along with a "bok bok".

Happy New Year!

I can't believe the invitations for Beatrix's first birthday party went out today. The year has gone by at the speed of light....
We had a great holiday season with a lot of family.
Thanksgiving we spent the afternoon with Nana, Aunt Lisa and the cousins in Glen Rose, TX. It was a pleasant road trip on a beautiful day.
Christmas was a non-stop family, food and gifts. Santa visited grammy's house and left a load for the little one.
We rang in the New Year with Nana over a pot of black eye peas and cabbage.
The Bea thoroughly enjoyed herself!

She has been completely mobile for about a month now. Walking, running, twirling, and now climbing. She is really picking up her signs, and can sign about 5 signs give or take.
We had a rough patch with the potty for the last five months. She had been putting her focus on getting up and moving; but, now that she has conquered that, she has taken interest in her potty. She has even sat on it and did a poop on her own!

8 month old bike wrench

She eats, she sleeps, she walks and she talks!