Dagney's New Words

This week, Dagney has learned 3 new words: "bath," "down," and "hot." She learned "hot" the hard way. She's had an awareness of what the word means for a while now-- when her food is hot, she blows on it, and we've been telling her, "It's too hot" so she'll put it together. The other day, she was sitting on Sam's lap when I put dinner on the table, and the first thing she did was put her whole hand on a chicken breast right out of the oven. She pulled her hand back, looked surprised, and said, "'ot." Then, yesterday, she touched a candle on the table and cried. After making sure she was ok, I decided to distract her with a game of ball. We played about 30 minutes and then she went back to the table and pointed at the candle. I said, "No, no. Remember? It's pretty, but it hurts." She looked at me and still pointing at the candle, she yelled, "Hot!"

We're trying to teach her "Trick-or-treat" before Halloween, but so far we've had limited success. The best we've gotten is "Tic-a-ttt." We've even been bribing her with candy. She tries so hard, but all she gets out is "Tic-a-ttt." I'm a room mom for her class at daycare, so I'm planning a Halloween party for the toddlers. It's gonna be awesome! So far, I'm planning on making butternut squash mac and cheese, pumpkin apple muffins, and chocolate rice krispy treats. I'm also putting together some little treat bags for her classmates. Based on the fact that none of her classmates ever dress up for the little school occasions (fairytale day, circus day, etc), I'm anticipating very little participation/help, and I refuse to let babies have a lame Halloween. Thus, this operation will be codenamed "Combat lame parents." I mean, how much effort does it really take to make something awesome for a 1-year old?

In other news, Dagney has finally discovered the giant giraffe that has been painted on her bedroom wall since before she was born. She taunts him, pointing and laughing and babbling things that I can't understand. Last night, when we left her bedroom, she waved at it and said, "Bye bye." Maybe she recognizes a giraffe now that we've been to the zoo? I don't know what's going through her head, but I guess it never hurts to have an extra friend.

Dagney's new old friend