Old McDonald Had a Farm

I thought I'd share with you this cute little video clip of Gabe doing his animal sounds! This is one of the cutest things he does right now; especially the kitty cat. He does this little high pitched "meow" that is the cutest thing you have ever heard! He actually knows lots of animal sounds and lots of different words. He amazes me everyday with something new that he shows me he knows. Yesterday morning I left my pjs in the bathroom after my shower and apparently daddy had handed then to him and told him to "take these to mama" and he did! He brought them right to me in the bedroon where I was getting dressed. He takes instructions well (most of the time!) and is always willing to help out when you ask him. First I am going to share the video clip with you, then, if for nobody but myself, I am going to try and make a list of all of the words that I can think of that he can say...

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So now for the words...
Mama
Dada
kitty
tract-tor (which includes tractors, trucks, anything with wheels basically)
bubbles (he is obsessed with bubbles, baths, water in general...)
apple
juice
milk
banana
eat
snack
cookie
movie
hot
hat
foot
eye
mouth
nose
uh oh
moon
bird
bobo (for Hobo - the dog)
gee (for Maggie - the other dog)
wee (what he calls his silkie)
pie-ci or sometimes just pie or by (what he calls his paci)
bye bye
More added 1-19-07...
Pooh Bear
Light
Night (for good night)
shoe
rock (he loves to rock in his little chair!)
And I'm sure there are more! I'll come back and add them as I think of them!

Oh, and he's started giving kisses! He gives these big huge slobbery open mouthed ones too. He comes at you like he is going to eat your nose right off your face (and he did actually bite me on the cheek last night) but it's still so sweet. Makes a mama's heart melt!

Happy New Year!

So welcome to 2007. We had a rough ending to 2006 but things seem to be getting back to normal. Poor Gabe developed an ear infection just before Thanksgiving and it's seemed to hang around. The week before Christmas when we were back at the drs for one of our many rechecks, we discovered that Gabe had a wheeze in his chest so we started breathing treatments. By the next day I had decided to take him back because his breathing had gotten so labored. He was put on a steriod and we upped the frequency of his treatments to every 4 hours. Oh, and after Christmas Daddy and I both came down with some kind of achey fever flu like something. So THAT part was just not fun.

But Christmas was wonderful! Gabe got a ton a stuff and he is just getting big enough to enjoy it all. He woke us up at 6:30 am on Christmas morning, just like an anxious little boy is supposed to. Guess he knows more about it than he is letting on!

We spent Christmas Eve with Grammy and Pop and Aunt April and Uncle Ty and Jessie and Eli. We opened all sorts of neat gifts, from fun little wooden puzzles, which Gabe loves, to a fancy leather recliner, just the right size for a little 16 month old feller.

Santa Claus did make an appearance on Christmas morning bringing a DVD player so Gabe can watch his favorite Baby Einstein movies on the go, a cool 18 wheeler, and even a little minature guitar. He likes to sit in his recliner and play his guitar, just like Daddy.

On Wednesday we headed to Nana and Pa's to spend Christmas with them and Aunt Mary and Uncle Jason, Jamie and JB, and Grandma. Gabe had a blast playing with Jamie and JB. There was one night when I thought it would be next to impossible to get him to go to bed because he was so wound up after chasing Jamie all over the house! He really had a great time with his cousins.

Here are a few pictures so you can see how wonderful our Christmas was! We all hope you had a perfectly wonderful one too!

Dontcha just love the jammies!?!?

Just like Daddy...

In my hat that Pa gave me...

And then...