March, 2010

Think she's starting to envy Byron because he has a big bed and she has a cot. She often climbs into bed for fun.
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Pretending to be a dusty book :D

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Curly

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Takes a bit of effort to temporarily tame the curls

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Feb

Getting a tow

Mackas!

Cuddle Baby!

Wearing her 1st birthday present (still too big!)

In the trailer :)

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Jasmine this month:

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Had an ear infection (we assume). Was upset and vomiting in the night, then couldn't balance for a few days! Kind of funny to watch (poor little girl!)

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"Reads" books to Zachary. Asks for books to be read to her a lot.

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Spotted carefully walking down the back steps, forwards without using her hands.

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Climbing up ladders and going down slides confidently.

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She's really starting to get her point across this month, with her increasing ability to string things together, such as...

favorite nursery rhyme: "A tishoo A tishoo All fall down!"

"Hahaha! Funny!"

"By Hit!" (crying on Daddy's shoulder and telling on Byron)

"Cuddle baby!" (holding out arms)

"See? A fly!"

"Want a hat!"

January, 2010

I've been a bit slack this month, sleeping lots, having babies and not taking enough photos. I only have a couple from January, and most of them seem to be of Byron and Jasmine together. I didn't even write down (or pay much attention to) the funny things they said, but I'll be better next month ;)

Summer in the sandpit

Carding wool for Mummy

Visiting new baby brother, Zachary

Getting a cuddle from Byron

Sitting under the kitchen table.

December, 2009

Chocolate pudding...
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Nappy cream... yum?
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Christmas "stocking" full of little toys.

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"In the Night Garden" inflatable chair, from Byron.

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Woolly winter hat by Mummy.

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Jasmine this month:

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Vocab up to about 200 words.

Started walking around on toes, sometimes.
Learned to jump.

November, 2009

What's the cheeky chick up to this month? Well, she's up and dancing with Playschool a lot more, copying the actions and dancing much more than her big brother does even now. She especially loves "In the Night Garden" and a You Tube video of Beaker (from the Muppets) singing "Ode to Joy".
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She can entertain herself for ages playing with somebody's boots or her hairclip, and if you take her to MacDonalds she'll go up and down the slide. She's up to 120-odd words, and is stringing a few together, like "More Grapes!" or "read a book".
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She still loves all the soft toys, and cuddles and kisses them all day, and sleeps with Pluto or Lion or Roo. She can click her fingers and "High Five". She'll tap on the kitchen table, calling for "Tea?" (in a "where are you?" sort of voice). She also likes to sit on my knee and push her hand into mine, so I'll hold it Ü
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Blue eyes and pigtails...

Hey, it's good yogurt. Want some?

Keeping her hair out of her eyes is a bit tricky. Pigtails work well for a while.

The back of her head; she's sitting on my knee reading a book. When it's wet in the bath it reaches the middle of her shoulderblades... for a few seconds Ü

She likes to "read", though it doesn't make much difference if the book is upside down.

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October 2009

Playing with Poppy (the doll Mummy knitted her)

Climbing up onto the window ledge now... anything to get closer to those fascinating flies!



Birthday present (rocking horse) that she's finally mastered her fear of, now that she can climb on and off without falling over Ü

After a faceplant in her brother's mudpit.

I can climb up onto the kitchen chairs... um... but help me down!

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It's vocabulary time! Now that Jasmine's a few days off being 16 months old, her list of words is well over 70 (not including animal sounds). She's figured it out, as Byron did; suddenly... AHA! Talking gets me stuff!

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She also tears around the place in Byron's old spiderman shoes, leaning forward, arms back, like a jet. She makes her toys kiss each other, and growls at Byron if he's trying to intimidate her. She climbs onto her rocking horse, but makes car sounds. She spins until she falls over, dizzy. She also did eventually learn to climb down off the kitchen chairs (and, of course, further up onto the kitchen table!)

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Sept 09

This month Jasmine is improving her climbing skills (though she fell off the stairs once) in an attempt to keep up with her big brother, vertically. Climbing into the big pot is only a little challenge...


What a bargain, for $15.50!

At the playground

Good old two minute noodles Ü Check out the plait...

Oops... the mud got me! (Mummy might have been laughing as she took this, having seen her faceplant in the "sand"pit...)

She talks all the time, but mostly babble. She seems to know what she's saying, though. She even talks in her sleep (and kisses things: mmmmmah!). Her favorite hobbies are putting things into people's shoes, kissing her toys, following Byron, and dancing to good music. (She worked out with one toy that if you open it quickly three times you can skip the "talking" and get back to the song.) She knows that if she drinks fast she can often get some of Byron's (by stealing or looking pitifully thirsty), and she's completely fascinated with babies. She gets offended if I try and hold her milk bottle (she can do it herself, thanks) and follows instructions (as it suits her Ü). She asks for things (toast, 'num', up) and has a waiting tolerance of about 2 seconds! She recognizes pictures in her books, especially animals, and knows a bunch of animal sounds (chickens, duck, cows, sheep, lions, tigers, cats, dogs...) She's getting the hang of heaps of little words (here's what I can remember in addition to what I've listed other months):

buhsh (brush, n & v)

toas (toast)

uff (up)

dow (down)

Yes! (with a nod Ü)

puss (push)

buss (bounce)

yoosh (shoes)
doe! (don't)

no (usually while she's doing something naughty, like stealing the remote)

num! (yum/let me have your food/I'm hungry!)

oh dear (when she drops something)

Dais (Daisy the sheep)

Bah (Barley the sheep)

Bay (baby)

so by the time she's 2-and-a-half she'll probably be talking as much as her big brother is now. Imagine that... two of them...!

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