words

this is just a random post listing some of my favorite "words" because i don't want to forget them...



c:



wowwow - fan (13 months)

uppity - upstairs (15 months)

banoonoo - balloon (18 months)

keekar - screwdriver (20 months)

onage - orange (up to about 2)

cuckeek - cupcake (around age 2)

gotfor - forgot (almost 3)

flastop - blast off (almost 3)

hittopos - hippopotamus (almost 3)

a is much more of an action man and doesn't seem to have the vocabulary that i remember from c at around the same age. he does have a few words that he says "correctly" but here are some of his funnies. (most of these are current or the past couple of months):



wawa (it sounds like "agua") - water
ba-bees - blackberries (his FAVORITE fruit)
dah - dog
nonor - conor (his FAVORITE person)
ba-pa - backpack
ahhh maa - ah man (from dora the explorer)
behd - bread
boon - balloon
pease - please (said with a sweet smile and clapping of the hands)

the end of an era

i'm so sad. i just finished nursing a for the last time. he's 16 months old today, and i'm going on a girls' weekend to the beach next weekend. dh and i decided it was time.

c kinda self-weaned at 15 months (with a little help from the irish inlaws - but that's a story for another time). and i always sort of assumed that a would self-wean by now. but he's nowhere close.

i feel like i'm taking something special and important away from him. and also from myself. i have been pregnant or nursing (or both) for the past 46 months. it's such a part of my life, who i am, and i'm desperately sad that this chapter is closing forever.