Chatty Cathy!

I can almost see the little fireworks happening in the speech-language part of Sloan's brain right now - it's crazy! In the last week she has starting picking things up really quickly!

As of now she is saying...

-baaaaa - when you ask her what a lamb/sheep says

-moooo - or some form of that when you ask her what a cow says

-mowmow - when you ask her what a kitty cat says

-woofwoof - when you ask her what a doggy/Toby says

-zoomzoom - when you ask her what a car says, or point to a picture of a car/truck

-dada - when you point to a picture of Daddy/when he comes home

-mama - finally!!!!!

She is also consistently signing 'milk' (has been for a looooong time), 'please', and she has just started 'more' and 'thank-you'. We started out using the ASL sign for these things, but Sloan has kind of adapted them to her own version! Her milk sign looks more like she is asking for money, and her thank-you is more a brush to her chest!

I'm still trying to get a good video of her chatting away...apparently the camera is too distracting!

For now...some cute pictures...

Hamming it up in the bath:

Spring!!!

Helping Daddy with his trade school homework!

xo JBM

Making Memories

We weren't able to afford to take a tropical vacation this year, or even go out west like we had hoped, but we are trying to do lots of little things to make some fun memories with Sloan. Last weekend we went to Southampton for a little day trip and checked out the flea market and had a nice lunch out (see my last lunch date wordless wednesday post). This weekend it was the Saugeen Conservation Maple Syrup Festival! It was great! What a nice way to spend an afternoon! And quite a workout with the GIANT hill to climb! Lucky for me, Matt pushed the stroller up it! We started out with a hot chocolate, pancake and sausage lunch, and then Sloan got her first taste of maple taffy (bubbling hot fresh syrup poured on the snow and rolled up on a popsicle stick). I was going to share mine with her, but she slurpped the whole thing up quite fast! So delicious and lots of fun memories of doing that as a child at school! Then Sloan got to take her first pony ride! SO cute! She loved it! She was smiling the whole time (except for the part when she was covering her nose...apparently horse poop isn't her favorite smell!) and trying to pet the pony. For $4 it seemed like a loooong ride - I was getting dizzy! Then, we were off to the animal barn (which was actually more of a shed), to see lots of animals to feel sorry for... What's in here???

Adorable little pigglets...with holes punched in their ears! What!? WHY?!

Sloan got to hold the cutest little bunny!

She was VERY gently petting him (I guess the many times a day that I say 'gentle hands' around Toby and Bane is sinking in!), until I asked her to give him a kiss...I guess she thought it would be easier to bring him to her mouth rather than the other way around! Oops!

What's next???

Tiny, adorable goats!

Next, Sloan and Matt got to go in a giant pen and feed some already very full animals! Oh, hello Mr. Something with Horns!

All-in-all it was a great day! Lots of fresh air and sunshine...and memories!

Sloan showing off her pearly whites (which got extra scrubbing after the taffy today!):

xo JBM

Wordless Wednesday: Nap Time!

xo JBM

Wordless Wednesday: Lunch Dates

There.

After sitting at the computer all day at work, the last thing I feel like doing is sitting down to write a blog post. But I have lots to blog about and LOTS of pictures I could be posting. I would much rather spend the few hours we have before bed time playing with Sloan! So we do, and nothing gets posted!

Here is an adorable video of Sloan feeding Toby breakfast - she has figured out how to open the big container we keep his food in...he isn't ignoring her so much these days now!

Untitled from Joelene Murphy on Vimeo.

Off to Nana's house we go...


xo JBM

Pictures!

I'm so far behind on posts...but here are some pics from our visit with the Mordaunt family...

Sloan and Nana made eggsalad for lunch together:

Which Ella enjoyed:

Elsie, Adam and Ella made us dinner one night (yum!):

Ella took a break for some blanket-forting with Sloan and Nana:

And then of course some sleeping-bag-riding:

Freddie slept through it all:

In Matt's arms...

Yes, Freddie and Sloan are months, and months apart, but only 2 pounds apart:

Sloan wore and antique nightgown for our sleepover:
And Ella was just plain cute!

We really enjoyed our visit!

xo JBM

One small step for Noodle...

Well, here it is...Sloan is walking! She took her first unassisted step on November 1st and has been taking a step or two here and there...mainly when she wants to get to Toby or Bane without scaring them off with her wildly fast crawling! I finally pulled out the tripod tonight and was able to get some video without Sloan grabbing the camera right away, but it's awfully dark! I'll set it up again tomorrow to see if I can get a better video...but enjoy this for now!

xo JBM