Standing... a new way to root!

Moya is now standing and kinda cruising around. This she has found makes for a new fun way to root in her toy bins. So cute seeing her little butt in the air as she digs and flings toys!

I Got It!!

So I've had my computer on the edge of the sofa and my wacom plugged in. Moya has had her eye on it for days. You could just see her thinking "ooooh I want to pull that cord do bad!!!"

She finally did it today! I look over and she is just paused with it in hand looking at me, literally waiting for me to see her. Once she catches my eye she waves it in the air and giggled manically. :) Amazingly I grabbed my camera and got a picture of it. :) Little stinker!

Purring Is Funny

Moya was giving Isis some love and Isis started purring. Moya laid down on her and would listen and then just start laughing! Apparently a kitty purring is very funny. But oh man was it CUTE to watch them cuddle. I tried to get a video of her giggling but she kept getting distracted by the camera. Still... so sweet. These two are very cute together. Isis knows Moya is my kitten and is so tolerant. She also loves the pets. And Moya is really pretty gentle for a baby.

First 20 Words!

1. Dada
2. Mama (although she rarely will say it!) :)
3. Gaga
4. Uh-oh
5. Bubbles
6. Eat
7. No
8. Meow (Moow)
9. That (Dat)
10. Hi
11. Hello (Herow)
12. Thank you (dank oooh)
13. Hi Baby (Ha Beh Beh)
14. Big Bird (Be Bur)
15. Night Night (nigh nigh)
16. Wow!
17. Bubblebee (bu bu beeh)
18. Belle
19. Bye bye
20. One (wuh)

Moya started saying "night night" mostly from her Tad toy that's on her changing table. She likes it's night-night music and it says after you push the button "One minute till night night." So she will push it and then say "nigh nigh." Now she says it when we go to bed or also just when leaving the room. :) She gets that it's a 'goodbye' word just hasn't exactly gotten it that it is only really for nighttime.

"Wow" I'm not sure where she got but she says it all the time and at the right times! The other day Gaga replaced dying batteries in the glowing Pooh bear toy and handed it to Moya and showed it was working better and Moya said "WOW! Dank ooo" (thank you). :)

Bumblebee she says only when we do the Bumblebee song "If I were a bumblebee I'd bor a hole in this pine tree!"... or as I sing it "... this belly!" and tickle her belly. Well the other day she was doing the motions we do with the song and saying "bummbu bee" I got it and did the song. She giggled and kept saying bumblebee.

She also says Belle's name now. It sounds kinda like "Bawle" but we know she means Belle. A few weeks ago she woke up and I went to get her. I brought her into the living room and the moment she saw Belle she pointed at her and said her name! She says it fairly often now.

Bye bye she just up and started saying. :)

One is the newest word. She loves to put toys in buckets or some container and then dump them out. Well in the bath when she puts the toys in the bucket I count to her as she does. So the other day she put a toy in and said clearly "Wuun!" Alysa said she also does that at her house when they practice counting. :)

It seems like there are more words she is saying but those are the ones I can think of right now.

Morning Root

When I sleep with Moya on the mattress on her floor the first thing she does when she wakes in the morning is crawl over to her toy shelves and open them up and start rooting through them.

This particular morning she had gotten to them before I had time to get in there after hearing her awake over the monitor. She's quick!

Watching Belle's Aikido Class

Moya came with Belle and I to Aikido class today. She loves watching Belle but was being too loud so I took her into the waiting area. She found a box of toys and merrily went about flinging them everywhere. Tossing is her hobby! She also found an Elmo which of course made her happy.

Elmo

I have never seen a kid so into Sesame Street and even more so into Elmo!

She LOVES Elmo. She'll be watching Sesame Street but usually is playing and doing other things while it is on. But the minute she hears that Elmo's World music come on she snaps to the screen and squeals with laughter and delight. Sometimes she'll even say "Wow!" and then she will start to sing along with the intro song.

She also really likes Mr. Noodle. When he comes on she smiles and waves and him and blows him kisses. Either she likes him or feels really sorry for him and is trying to make him feel better for always getting things wrong. :)

It is so cute to watch.

I found an old Dancing Elmo toy of Belle's. She never was really into it much so it was still in almost brand new quality. Moya loves it and he is now been blessed with mouth fulls of crackers she has tried to force feed him. :)
I can't say I was a big Elmo fan prior to Moya but I cannot deny a fondness for the little Muppet now. How could I not when he makes her smile so. :)

Nod

Moya understands the nodding of the head for yes and shaking it for no. I had started recording her here because she was being so cute with her bucket of water in the bath. But I also got her nod on video!

The Great Race

We have this big fold out gate in the living room that we use to fence off an area for Moya so she can play happily on the floor. And for the most part she is happy to root in her toys and play and roll around and eat crumbs of discarded cookies she's tossed around off the floor. But her ultimate goal is to wait until we leave the gate open a crack and then she makes a break for it! She will do her army crawl just as fast as she can to get out and then head down the hall or into the dinning room. And she is lightning fast too!

She also doesn't need much room to wiggle past the gate. The other day my left the gated area to get something out of the kitchen. In the time it took my mom to walk from the living room to the kitchen (which is like 10 feet) Moya had zoomed over to the gate, worked it the rest of the way open and was in the dinning room splashing her hand in the cat's water dish!! I mean she did all that in probably 10 seconds! I've seen her do it too. Just today I was trying to fix something on the gate and she was over on the opposite side of it and just my touching the gate she thought I was going to open it and within 2 seconds she was right there trying to escape. It's freaky how fast she is. And it's probably one of the reasons why she's not walking... why walk when you can telaport!?

Belle is also very helpful in keeping guard of Moya. If she manages to get past the gate when we are in the kitchen or something Belle will tackle Moya while yelling "She's ESCAPING!!!" :)

Pretty Baby

I make really pretty baby girls. :)

Sleep Struggles

Moya periodically will just refuse to sleep. Most of the time she's a good sleeper but every once in awhile no matter how dead dog tired she is she just won't!

Last night was one of those nights. She was sleepy and I tried for an hour to get her to go to sleep. She would fall asleep in my arms but then wake up and cry or do so the moment I laid her down. If I tried just laying her down awake she would sit up and cry.

I finally just took her into the living room with Brad and I for awhile. She was perfectly happy to sit in Daddy's lap and watch A-Ha's "Take on Me" video over and over again on his iphone.

The worst part is that you'd think once she did fall asleep she'd sleep well and long. Nope! When she has one of these episodes she will finally go to sleep (after a fight) but then will wake early and doze and then finally get up after only a few hours. Like last night... she finally went to sleep some time after midnight, then started waking and dozing around 5am. That went on until 6:30. She then went back to sleep but woke up for good at 7:30.

Hoping she does better tonight. Typically she doesn't do it two nights in a row so I am crossing my fingers. Yes it is tough on me but I feel worse for her!

Magic Trick

So the other night in the bath I did a silly magic trick I showed a toy and then tried to do a little slight of hand and tossed the toy behind my back. I figured, she's a baby she'll be impressed. :) HA! Fat chance! She took a toy and did the magic trick right back at me! Complete with throwing it behind her and doing the tada/where'd it go hand jesters! I just busted up laughing.

We got her to sorta do it again tonight for the camera. She was very tired as it was almost bed time so it wasn't her most energetic magic show. :) But she did it! And it is as cute as can be!! The best part of the video in my opinion however is the very end. Daddy asks her to blow Mommy a kiss and instead she just lunges for me and crawled up into my arms and gave me a kiss and a hug. Melt my heart!

Zoo

We took the girls to Cougar Mountain Zoo today. Belle had gone to this zoo on a fieldtrip once and had been wanting to take us ever sense.

It is a small zoo but really cool! You get to see the animals up close. The tigers were awesome.

Was a good time. :)

Puppet

Moya had been doing a cute funny puppet show on her own but of course the moment I get the camera she stops. Belle however took it up ane played with Moya with it. :)

Bath Phobia

Moya was sick first part of April. On the night she vomited I had to give her a quick second bath.. for obvious reasons. At the time I thought nothing of it but apparently it scared her! For weeks afterwards every time I took her into the bathroom for her bath she was start crying hysterically! :( This was really devastating because her bath time is our special time. Our normal routine is to go in and she shuts the door and we both say "Uh-oh!" and I'd finish by saying "uh-oh it's Moya/Mommy time!" And she'd smile and giggle. We have such fun with her bath times! It was so sad that now it was a trauma for her!

The first few times after the vomit episode I had to REALLY work at it to keep her entertained in the bath and our baths were very short. After a week or so it got to the point that once I got her in and got her laughing she would be fine as long as I kept her engaged. Then after another week or so she would only cry while I got her in but then was fine. But now... YAY!! No tears at all!! We are back to liking our bath and the phobia is over. Now it is smiles and "uh-oh" and all good. sigh.... so relieved. And next time she vomits I'm going to keep this in mind. Even if it means sitting with a smelly baby I'm going to wait until she's calm before bathing her.

Kisses

This is just to sweet to say. Probably one of the cutest pictures I've ever taken of the two together. And look at those cheeks! They really look like sisters here.

I just love my little girls so much.

Morrissey

Moya likes Morrissey and Ah-ha's Morten Harket. When I am getting Belle to bed at night she and daddy listen to music via the Xbox. It shows still pictures of the bands while playing their music. She will boogie the most to Morrissey and Ah-ha and lights up when she sees them... Morten she particularly seems to like. :)

Moya "Reading"

We keep trying to get a good video of her doing this but it is so cute. She will grab a book and "read." So sweet!

MOOOWAH! and standing!

Standing and ferociously giving kisses! Kinda scary in a cute way!