September 14th Filaisms

When Isabel and I got to Fila's this morning, Phoenix was already there and playing on a blanket in the living room. Fila put Isabel down on the blanket and said that they "play" together very well. Here they are (please excuse the crappy quality of the next few photos - they were taken with my BlackBerry):




We were talking about how Phoenix is already crawling (they're only 2 weeks apart in age) because he's so skinny and Fila said that Isabel "está estacionada porque tiene colota de negra!" (translation: Isabel is parked because she has a big booty like a black woman!) Oh my, Fila. ;)

Isabel gets tired of being on her tummy so Fila sits her up with pillows around her in case she tips over. She's much steadier sitting by herself in the past week, but still falls backwards or sideways sometimes. Anyway, when Isabel is lying back on the pillows, Fila says she's "relajando como un gringo pensionado!" (translation: relaxing like a retired white person!) Here is my little gringa pensionada:




Check it out! My girl loves DP as much as her mama!

German and Clicking

This morning, Isabel woke up at 4:30 for her third midnight snack. This is not unusual. She likes having her third midnight snack about this time. What was unusual is that she woke up fully and decided she was ready to play. I reminded her about 637 times that it was sleepytime and not yet time to get up and play, but she insisted that I was wrong about that and then she began to beat me up. First she kicked me repeatedly in the gut. Then she honked my nose several times and pulled my lower lip up over my head. She poked around in my mouth checking the fit of my night guard and after she was satisfied that it still fit, pulled my top lip down over my chin.

Once she was sure that I was fully awake, she began speaking to me rather loudly in German. She had a lot of "ichhhhh"s (that means 'I' for those of you who don't speak German) in her sentences, but I couldn't understand the rest of what she was saying. I told her I wasn't deaf, I just didn't understand what she was saying, but she kept on yakking away at a decibel level designed to make my parents (who do speak German) hear her in Kansas. I guess I'm going to have to dust off my German so that I can understand my child.

Now, I know my little girl is talented, but I had no idea she could speak Xhosa (pronounced click-koüsa for those of you not fluent in African clicking languages) as well until this morning! She started clicking away like she was a member of the Zulu tribe in KwaZulu-Natal. Then she interspersed some German with her Xhosa, so I'm not sure who she was talking to at that point. i don't suppose many Zulu also speak German. Apparently it's her own made-up language. Perhaps she has an imaginary German-Zulu friend. That's probably it. Eventually she gave up and went back to sleep.........just as it was time for me to get up. Sooo, I've been up since 4:30 AM. Greeat. Should hit me like a ton of bricks just after lunch. I may have to amend my one-caffeine-drink-a-day to two today, she said with toothpicks propping up her eyelids.

Filaisms, continued and photo updates on waving.

Yes, I have more Filaisms. I think I might have one for every day of the week. I used to forget many of them, so now I've taken steps to remedy that. I'm putting a small notebook in my car so that as soon as I escape from Fila's conversational clutches, I can jot down her latest tidbit for your reading pleasure.

Ok, so today's Filaism:

She was talking about how she thinks Isabel is not wanting to drink quite as much of her milk as before because now she is eating 'el Gerbers' (said with a very heavy accent)....think, 'el Gerrrrrrberrrrrrrs'(aka baby food). Fila said that on Monday, Isabel ate el Gerrrrrberrrrrs around lunchtime, and then a few hours later was drinking her bottle. While drinking her bottle, "se repitio como un borracho, como un 'wino'!" (translation: she burped like a drunkard, like a wino!) The funniest part was that Fila gave me a demonstration of that burp. "Uuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp!" I so wish I could've recorded it and posted it here. I almost fell on the floor laughing!

So last night I was telling Bryan how Fila is teaching Isabel to wave. I told him that Isabel waved down low and kind of off to the side yesterday. I was holding her, so I started saying, "Adioooooooos" to her and waving at her to see if she would do it back so that Bryan could see. Ha. She looked at me witheringly as if to say, "Mom, we both know good and well that neither of us is leaving the house tonight. I do NOT feel like waving at you right now. I'm not some monkey in a circus, after all." This morning I told Fila that Isabel refused to wave at us last night, so she started Adiosing Isabel again and waving at her. Isabel again lifted her hand a bit by her side and moved it in the waving motion! See?


Then Fila lifted Isabel's hand so that it looked more like a wave:


Now why will she do it for Fila, but not for her parents?!! We'll keep working on that. Here's one more pic of my cutie, just for good measure.


Walking? Well, not quite. But standing pretty well on those sturdy legs of hers!

Filaisms, Part 593

This morning when I took Isabel to Fila's, she showed me that Isabel can wave when Fila says, "Adioooos!" and waves at her! Isabel didn't lift her hand up to the normal height that people use when waving, but she did move her hand back and forth kind of on the side. Wow! I didn't know she could do that! I'll try to get a photo of her doing it to post on here.

Then Fila showed me that she has also been practicing, "Geemifigh" with Isabel. Now for those of you not fluent in heavy-Spanish-accents-in-English like I am, geemifigh means 'Give me five!' Isabel is still working on her geemifigh skills though. I also want to teach her the fist bump so that she can fist bump with her 2-year-old cousin, Isaac. He's a fist-bump expert.

Firsts.

Isabel had a big day of firsts yesterday (Labor Day). We were invited to a swim party at Andria (yoga mama) and Leighton's (yoga baby) house. Isabel was VERY brave and dunked her head under the water twice! (1st First) Actually, she didn't know it was coming either time, but after a bit of coughing, she recovered quickly. :) She LOVED the water this time. This is only her second time swimming in her young life. She had fun kicking and splashing the water with her hands.





Isabel also had her first kiss yesterday:

Charley just leaned over and planted one on her. Yeah, he wasn't too subtle, but he's still learning. I think it was his first kiss, too. ;) Isabel's first kiss was with a younger man....he's just 6 months while Isabel is a whole 2 weeks older! Anyway, good thing I know and like his parents. ;)

More photos.

Uncle Chris was making her laugh!




"Mama keeps making me wear giant flowers on my head."




Her favorite activity...jumping in her jumperoo




Carrot mustache

First tooth

Yesterday I posted that Isabel got her first tooth last Sunday. Here it is:


I took about 783 photos before I finally got one where you can actually sort of see the tiny little tooth! Isabel was a good sport though. Plus, she got pureed carrots for her efforts, and she likes those.