Dancing

Dancing at Grandma and Grandpa's

Dancing at Granny's

Granny's

I drew pictures of "dogs" and "elmo" on my way to granny's

Summer helped me open my presents

Surrounded by toys

Merry Christmas!

Making cookies for Santa

He knows when you are sleeping....

I've got this present-opening game all figured out

Dancing dancing dancing -- video to come later

A train!

Introducing my great grandma to Elmo

Merry Christmas!

Making biscotti

I mixed up all the ingredients for biscotti - we used my great great grandmother's recipe -- she's from Italy

Added some more flour

After baking, I decorated them

yum yum yum

San Diego Botanical Gardens

V is for Vivi (and a plant named Verbana)

Playing an xylophone made of stones

Play piano

Boats

This one is blue

Baby dinosaur

tortoise

Best tree house ever

Out of space

I've used up my limit on photos. Until I have time to delete some old posts or decide to upgrade my storage, I'll be posting photos at ....


http://www.tumblr.com/blog/agrandadventure

This was where the original blog way back when Vivi was smaller than a blueberry.

EDIT: Well apparently, I'm able to use this blog again. See the link above for most of the December posts. 

Weekend

I had a very busy weekend. In addition to Thanksgiving dinner and making ornaments (the previous two posts, I ...

Shared my toys with "Boppa"(Grandpa)

Rode on the carousel again

Put myself in a box

Climbed a ladder (Mommy was not very pleased with this accomplishment)

Sat in a drawer

Built a tower of elephants

Had a chat with Darth Vader

Played with Legos some more.

Making salt dough ornaments

First we mix up the ingredients

Then we roll the dough and cut out shapes

Look - stars!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Working on my costume

With my cousins

Legos

Playing with my Lego zoo

I built a car for my monkey

Accomplishments

WORDS (60): Vivi says the following words regularly:
Animals: Monkey (AhAh), Duck, Dog, Cow, Elephant (pppphh), Lion (roar), cat (meow), bear, fish, snake (ssssss).
Names: Mama, Dada, Elmo, Jenny, Gina, Barbara, Enara, Aina, (teachers/students in her class - note does not say Vivi yet)
Foods: Cheese, milk, water (agua), pasta, orange, banana, apple
Body parts/clothes: Eye, teeth, hat, shoes 
Other Nouns: swings, trees, truck, rock
Verbs/actions: I walk, up down, nurse, tickle tickle, row row row (sing), sit.
Other: more, all done, help, outside, yes, no, mine, ow, hi, wow, night night, blue, yellow, two, gee (letter), hot, right there, what's that?, off, uh-oh, hot

COLORS: Identifies the following colors pretty well: Yellow, Blue, Red, Green, and sometimes orange.

LETTERS: Recognizes a few letters (I had no idea until I asked her to find some letters today): A, O, L, V. (she calls letters collectively "gee")

NUMBERS: Can hand me 1 vs 2 blocks (three is more than two - a lot more than 2). Pretends to count when asked "how many X are there?"

GROSS MOTOR: walks, runs, marches, walks on knees, somersaults, walks backwards, spins.

DRAWING: draws circlish and linish shapes (calls them all "Elmo"), fills the whole space of the page/chalkboard,

BUILDING: stacks blocks 6 high

Nov 15

I helped Mommy make crepes for breakfast.

Honing my observation skills.

Tell me a story

Entertaining Vivi in the car almost always consists of singing -- a lot. Yesterday, I tried a new tactic.

Mommy: Vivi, can you tell me a story?
Vivi: Yeah!
Mommy: Who is the story about?
Vivi: Elmo!
Mommy: Elmo? Anyone else?
Vivi: AhAh (Monkey)
Mommy: Elmo and Monkey. Okay. What did they do?
Vivi: Up down up down up down (rode the carousel)
Mommy: And then what?
Vivi: Up down up down up down (rode the carousel)
Mommy: Ohh... Can you tell me another story?
Vivi: Yeah!
Mommy: Who is this story about?
Vivi: Elmo AhAh
Mommy: Elmo and Monkey? what did they do?
Vivi: Up down up down up down (rode the carousel)....

The carousel

Up and down, up and down, up and down...

44 days and counting...

Ho ho ho ...

Ribbon

Decorations

Somersaults --- on the hard floor.