Holiday Yearling

December is a big month. Scarlett turns one and we turn our eyes to the holidays and to family. We had a great holiday-themed birthday party for Scarlett.


Her production vocabulary (words she says) is over a dozen words: Noh! (No--- which is getting used with increasing frequency), Toh Dah (Toby Dog), Quo (Crow), Dow (Down), DaDa (Da-da), Mah (Mom), Blue (Blue berries), O-pah (Open), Wow (wow in a whisper, which is very cute), ohhhh (oh, with an inflection in the middle for when she is surprised), gua-gua (spanish for woof-woof, she makes when Toby barks), Puh (Puff- - a baby treat she likes), Bah-Bah (Bottle) and while not a word, she's started going mmmm for a kiss (the mmmmm sound like the sound right before a kiss, but tries to take a bite because she can't pucker quite yet). Of course, she's makes dozens of other sounds in what seem like long sentences--- we just have no idea what she's saying.

She's doing all kinds of neat things like fake choking to get attention, and fake laughs to crack herself up, initiating playing peek-a-boo by lifting and holding blankets over her head, then pulling it down and laughing, and she totally loves baths. She's fully mobile; running even... but managed to fall and get a minor black eye right before her visit to santa (which went surprisingly well... actually, she was very serious... but at least she didn't cry).

Around this age, kids enter something called the mine phase, where they start getting possessive. While she's still happy to try and feed us while eating, she does try to do everything she can to hold as many things in each hand as she can. She's also figuring out she can stack items in other items to carry more--- it is the genesis of the purse! She also loves to put caps back on bottles and cans... not sure what that means, but she loves it.

She ended up being the only girl available at church for the Christmas nativity scene, so she played the youngest virgin Mary of all time.


Her eyes are still blue and her hair is still blonde, and she's starting to get the cutest blonde curls---