scarlett sophia: 10/01/2006

Oct 29: Pumpkin walk

It is a really big pumpkin, I swear. But the biggest news coming out of our little pumpkin is she took her first two steps today. She won't be running around trick or treating by Halloween, but she's almost really a bi-ped.

Current favorite food: Cheese & grapes

New word: Chee (cheese)

Tooth count: 5 (both lower middles, fang, and middle 2 tops)

Least favorite thing: time change

Newest fashion accessory: hair barrettes

Our kitty pride:

Furmandridges carving pumpkins:

Snaggletooth preview

Ready to pounce! Seriously, how cute is she???!!!

It has been a rough week for Arley--- she is getting her third tooth in and it has apparently been a very painful process for her--- her top right tooth is coming in but about 1-2cm over from where you'd expect it--- so, either she is getting her second incisor in before her first large incisor, a not-totally-rare situation called cross-cutting, or her main incisor (big front tooth) is coming in way off center... so no wonder it is so painful. We might have to start calling her fang from now on... so the kitty halloween costume is pretty fitting.

The last week Scarlett made it to her first football game in a newly renovated Stanford stadium.

She also loves playing in water.. .here she plays in the hose and doesn't mind getting soaked.. .and yes, her eyes are still azure blue.

Oct 10: D is for... Everything

Arley is doing great. Her vocabulary is up to 6 words regularly.... maybe not words in the Queen's English, but words two Cognitive Psychologist parents can pick out: Mama, Daddy, doggy/diggy (doggy), dat (that), duck (rubber duck), and durrel (squirrel - her favorite thing to watch run around our yard; the letters 'sqr' are about the hardest 3 letter to pronouce to start a word for children, so she just uses the d sound) . She has said boo-boo clear as day after she pointed to a mark and Laura said boo-boo, but she hasn't said it again since.

She loves pointing, and still totally loves books.... clearly something she gets from her mom, because I didn't know books were good for anything other than jumps for hot wheels until I was in grad school. I've never seen a screaming child be calmed so quickly by opening a book... but it works for her... and she loves to point at the different characters.

So since I started drafting this blog last week, Arley has added to her one-use vocabularly--- words she's said perfectly, but only used once include:
Mom (a new variation on Mama)
Dad (a new variation on daddy)

Hoodies are in--- I just learned a hoodie is hooded sweat shirt... but they're in I hear--- and Scarlett like them:

Here's a great picture of Arley and dad... her shirt from Grandma is very fitting --- in case you can't read it, it says "little terror":