The writings of Raymond and Kandace Brigleb, in Portland, Oregon
© The Brigleb Family Blog 2010
Zoë seems to be picking up words more and more quickly all the time. Here’s what we’ve heard from her so far… and what we think they mean, if it’s not already clear!
Babu. Ball or bubble
Baba. Bottle, or Mommy
Mama
Dada. Daddy
Yay. Happy
La la la la la. Part of song
Ya ya. Grandma, roughly
Bye bye.
Hi!
Dis. This
Dat. That, also cat
Duck.
Doze. Nose
Uh-oh!
Nigh-nigh. Goodnight
Num num. Yum
Baby.
Puppy.
Notably absent: please, thank you, sir.
Zoë is speeding up with her mad linguistic skills. She’s currently obsessed with saying bye-bye (ba-bayeeeeee) which shouldn’t be confused with another favorite, ba-ba. She’s also learned her first body part, nose, or in Zoë speak, doooose. This is always accompanied by a point at your nose (careful lest that finger end up straight up your nostril – she gets a tiny baby thrill out of that).
Saturdays are big days around here. No work or school, so we get to hang out family style and enjoy lovely Portland. We spent this morning at the park (check out the slide video here) and then this afternoon swimming. Zoë’s swimming teacher said that she’s such a good swimmer that “she’s going to go a long way.” Future Olympian, anyone! Here we are working on our back floats.
Late last year, my mom loaned me a bunch of her old pictures to scan in. I’ll be posting them here as time goes by, they’re going onto Flickr as we speak. This is the first batch – they are all from long before I was born. I mean, there are pictures of my grandmother in here from when she was a little girl!
While we came home early from a delightful dinner with friends, we hear Grandma was whooping it up until the wee hours in Vegas (I just love this picture). Happy to Near to you all!
We went to the Zoo tonight, to see the lights. If you haven’t seen the pictures on Facebook, you can see them here.
Kandace and Zoë at the Zoo Lights 2009
Short and sweet!
On Thanksgiving Day, we were able to take a picture of Zoë with her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother!
Unfortunately, there were several other people with cameras, so in none of my pictures is everyone looking at my camera! Oops!
Kandace, Zoë, and Tiffany on the swings this morning. Filmed with my iPhone.
Zoë has learned to reach out with one arm. She pet our Nico, our kitty, for the first time this morning. I hope Nico and Poppy are ready for the next few years of “petting”!
Only one week behind schedule, here’s a video from last weekend. I probably don’t need to mention it, but be sure to visit our MobileMe gallery. There you will see much higher quality versions of everything. Most relevant: a much higher quality version of this video.
Photos will probably be up soon as well.