Translation...

At 14 months, there are times that one of my children looks at me, utters a syllable or two, and I know exactly what he or she is saying. Other times, it takes some thought and translation. Here are some words that my kids can say, other than Mama and Dada.

Sebastien:
amma: Grandma
buppa: Grandpa
dahpah: diaper
kah-ko: cracker
coh-coh: cookie
bah: boo (as in peekaboo)
baw: ball
bah-bo: bubble
uh-oh
nana: banana
neewwww: no
toe: toast

Eden:
ahhhp: up
ahhhn: on
eeeee: Eat (accompanied by the sign for eat)
mo: more
papi: paci (pacifier)
uppa: Grandpa
mmma: Grandma
hieee: hi
bebe: baby
nana: banana

Then there are things that I THINK they are saying, namely, names. We look at the pictures on our refrigerator a lot, and sometimes it sounds like they are trying to say the names. Like, we point to Abby, and Sebastien says: Ahb. Or, when I am getting them up in the morning and they get a good look at each other in the daylight, I often will hear Eden say something like "Boppy" which I think is an attempt at Bashy (one of our nicknames for Sebastien.) And Bash will reply with "Deda," which could be Eden?

Finally, there are animal sounds. I am not even going to attempt at trying to get across what these adorable sounds are like, but my kids are learning to make sounds from cows, monkeys, owls, dogs, sheep and elephants. They also do a lizard impression now, in which they stick out their tongue, which is hilarious.

Anyway the point is, they are making progress with this talking thing, and it is SO fun to hear them learn their new words and put them together to get what they want.




p.s. Thank you Sarah for the kick in the pants; I will try to blog more often. :)

Facebook, Blogs, Flicker...

I have this blog that I rarely update because I often feel like I don't have a "theme" to post pictures under, or anything really interesting to say. Plus I often find myself doubting that anyone really even reads it anymore.

As far as Facebook goes, I post pictures almost weekly, sometimes more. I LOVE posting pictures to Facebook. It's great. I realize that were this a pre-Facebook era, I would probably be that mom who stops people on the street to show them wallet size photos and maybe even a big brag book of my kids. Instead, all my Facebook friends have to put up with seeing "Caryn added photos to 'Summer.'"

Then, recently, as I was looking through the channels on my AT&T U-verse, I discovered that if I download pictures to Flickr, I can view them on my TV! (FUN!) So I opened a Flickr account. I was putting pictures on, and Flickr gave me a disturbing warning. Something along the lines of: "You're trying to post X amount of pictures - that exeeds your maximum for the month." (The MONTH???)

Well, I quickly said, "Ok, Flickr, nevermind...." but backed slowly away from the MacBook in the realization that in just two short days, I was attempting to download more pictures than most people do in a month.

So, I don't know if there's a clinical word for it, I'll have to check the DSM... But here and now, I'm admitting that I have a problem. I'm not sure I'm ready to do anything about it yet. (I'm in the contemplation stage, not the action stage.)

But aren't my kids SO cute?