See Joshi wearing his Papa's shoes, only 22 cm too large : )
Montag, 21. November 2011
Mittwoch, 26. Oktober 2011
No`s and cars
Dear Joshi,
You continue to talk up a storm and now you have added the clear head shake for "NO". Now that you can use that clearly and with intent you use it for everything. You have been very sick this last week and everything from drinking to eating to going to bed has been a NO from you. When you don't like the taste of something or if you don't want to do an activity like brush your teeth, ride your bobby car - you say immediately DONE in a clear and matter-of-fact tone. It is so cute.
You have also continue to be obessessed with cars, proving yourself to be all boy, you get out of bed in the morning and the first thing you look for your car. You have lots of cars to play with that you have borrowed from your brother Leo. Your favorite is and ML Class Mercedes in silver. You carry this around from room to room and drive it on the window sills. The long window sill in the living room has turned into an Autobahn, with all of your cars. You get quite mad when the cars fall off the Autobahn when driving them.
Love your, Mama
You continue to talk up a storm and now you have added the clear head shake for "NO". Now that you can use that clearly and with intent you use it for everything. You have been very sick this last week and everything from drinking to eating to going to bed has been a NO from you. When you don't like the taste of something or if you don't want to do an activity like brush your teeth, ride your bobby car - you say immediately DONE in a clear and matter-of-fact tone. It is so cute.
You have also continue to be obessessed with cars, proving yourself to be all boy, you get out of bed in the morning and the first thing you look for your car. You have lots of cars to play with that you have borrowed from your brother Leo. Your favorite is and ML Class Mercedes in silver. You carry this around from room to room and drive it on the window sills. The long window sill in the living room has turned into an Autobahn, with all of your cars. You get quite mad when the cars fall off the Autobahn when driving them.
Love your, Mama
Montag, 17. Oktober 2011
18 months and counting
Joshi is just over 18 months old and he can do just about everything that mama can do except for go to the toilet. Hopefully that will come soon and we can save on diapers and that headache : ) I did cloth diaper him for 6 months (from 6 mos to 12 mos) but he has back in disposables since I have been back to work.
He can say even more words than before including:
Buddha, Oma, grandma, crane, zipper, button, fan, home (pronounced hmmm), JYM (pronounced: Emmm). Fan is often accompanied by the sound vvvvvvvvvv and a hand motion going back and forth. This is his interpretation of the sound the basement fan makes. He is obsessed with the fan. He went to hang up laundry with mama one day about a week ago and discovered the fan and has talking about it ever since. It has been the first thing he talks about when he opens his eyes in the morning and first thing he thinks about when we are coming or going. Joshi always wants to make a stop down in the basement to visit the fan. To turn it on and off and on and off. I think there is a combination of fascination and a bit of fear which is fueling this obsession. The other word Joshi says a lot lately is "other side" (pronounced o'er sigh....) Joshi uses this to communicate when during breast feeding he is done with one side and ready for the other. It has morphed however into a word that means he wants to breast feed. I now have him on a schedule and weaned him off of night feedings and day feedings: Now we have feeding at early morning waking, in the early evening after work and once more as part of the bedtime routine. Since this partial weening Joshi has been cautious to ask at other times, cause he knows what the answer will be - now he has settled for constant fondling which irritates his mama to no end especially when in public. He has added to sign for music to his repertoire.
Joshi is still calling Leo papa....we are waiting for him to be able to say Leo.
In the park, you have your own private island, I like to call it. It is a little grassy area in the sandpit play ground with bushes, a tree stump and some rocks. You love to play here, while all the other kids are on the slides and swings and jungle gym - you are hanging out on your private island, getting close to nature and climbing the rocks. No other kid enters your territory, none of them take the slightest interest!
He can say even more words than before including:
Buddha, Oma, grandma, crane, zipper, button, fan, home (pronounced hmmm), JYM (pronounced: Emmm). Fan is often accompanied by the sound vvvvvvvvvv and a hand motion going back and forth. This is his interpretation of the sound the basement fan makes. He is obsessed with the fan. He went to hang up laundry with mama one day about a week ago and discovered the fan and has talking about it ever since. It has been the first thing he talks about when he opens his eyes in the morning and first thing he thinks about when we are coming or going. Joshi always wants to make a stop down in the basement to visit the fan. To turn it on and off and on and off. I think there is a combination of fascination and a bit of fear which is fueling this obsession. The other word Joshi says a lot lately is "other side" (pronounced o'er sigh....) Joshi uses this to communicate when during breast feeding he is done with one side and ready for the other. It has morphed however into a word that means he wants to breast feed. I now have him on a schedule and weaned him off of night feedings and day feedings: Now we have feeding at early morning waking, in the early evening after work and once more as part of the bedtime routine. Since this partial weening Joshi has been cautious to ask at other times, cause he knows what the answer will be - now he has settled for constant fondling which irritates his mama to no end especially when in public. He has added to sign for music to his repertoire.
Joshi is still calling Leo papa....we are waiting for him to be able to say Leo.
In the park, you have your own private island, I like to call it. It is a little grassy area in the sandpit play ground with bushes, a tree stump and some rocks. You love to play here, while all the other kids are on the slides and swings and jungle gym - you are hanging out on your private island, getting close to nature and climbing the rocks. No other kid enters your territory, none of them take the slightest interest!
Sonntag, 18. September 2011
Chatterbox
Since we have been back from the US, Joshi has really started talking:
Here is vocab at 17 months:
high chair
dinner
cracker (one of his first words!)
yogurt: acun
vacuum: acun
water: acun
chicken (chickachickachicka)
tickle
eyes
chin
cheek
car
siren
outside
diaper
Sarah
up
down
done
for Kitty cat he makes a clicking sound (like when you call a cat to you) and for Cheese he makes a "th" hissing sound - he is making up his own language.
Sign language:
milk, diaper, more, tree, bird, sky, airplane, please
We had a wonderful trip to the States. Joshi was so easy and he fell in love with everyone and everyone with him. He was such an easy traveller despite being all over the place, a nine hour flight.....he slept in the stroller the entire six hour delay in Philadelphia due to our cancelled flight and then in the flight to Detroit in my arms. He did amazingly well with the time change going over and with all the car travel. We were near Flint at Gigi's, then in a cabin in the woods (with Grandma Cindy and the Coutures) up near Harbor Springs. Joshi and Leo swam in Lake Michigan and loved playing on the sandy beaches of Petoskey State Park. We were then up on Mackinac Island for two nights with Mom and Olivia and whole rest of the gang staying in the Grand Hotel. We all had to get spiffed up for the evening dress code there. It was fun. We did a bike tour around the Island (Joshi was in the Croozer, but fell asleep for most of the ride) and went for a swim in the Grand Hotel Pool afterwards. That night we had dinner reservations "In the Woods" and took a horse drawn carriage into the center of the Island. Next day we took of to the UP to Whitefish Bay, dipped our feet in Lake Superior and headed on to Taquamenon Falls. It was brilliant. We saw the lower falls first and then the upper falls. There we had dinner at the Brewery there afterwards. After our time up North we headed down state again to stay with Grandpa Chaz and Gramma Jeanne. Leo got to ride Jeanne's horse and in the evening Gramma Sherrit and Jim came over as well for dinner. It was great tanking up on family. Afterwards we went on to Ann Arbor for a few hours and the Hands On Museum and saw the house and neighborhood where your mama grew up. We were then back to GiGi's for a night, we had pizza and spent the next day shopping and putting up towel racks for GiGi. For the rest of the time we spent at Grandma Cindy and Grandpa John's house with a day tour to Downtown Detroit (WSU, Belle Isle, Ghetto...)
GiGi couldn't stop talking about how smart Joshi is.....he is going to be one brilliant child, she kept saying. Grandma Cindy and Grandpa John kept talking about what a truly happy kid he is. He chattered away at John when we stayed with them explaining stuff with all seriousness in his own little chatter. So cute! He was quite taken with his Grandpa Chaz as well, fascinated somehow, like he understood this is family, these people belong to me!
Here is vocab at 17 months:
high chair
dinner
cracker (one of his first words!)
yogurt: acun
vacuum: acun
water: acun
chicken (chickachickachicka)
tickle
eyes
chin
cheek
car
siren
outside
diaper
Sarah
up
down
done
for Kitty cat he makes a clicking sound (like when you call a cat to you) and for Cheese he makes a "th" hissing sound - he is making up his own language.
Sign language:
milk, diaper, more, tree, bird, sky, airplane, please
We had a wonderful trip to the States. Joshi was so easy and he fell in love with everyone and everyone with him. He was such an easy traveller despite being all over the place, a nine hour flight.....he slept in the stroller the entire six hour delay in Philadelphia due to our cancelled flight and then in the flight to Detroit in my arms. He did amazingly well with the time change going over and with all the car travel. We were near Flint at Gigi's, then in a cabin in the woods (with Grandma Cindy and the Coutures) up near Harbor Springs. Joshi and Leo swam in Lake Michigan and loved playing on the sandy beaches of Petoskey State Park. We were then up on Mackinac Island for two nights with Mom and Olivia and whole rest of the gang staying in the Grand Hotel. We all had to get spiffed up for the evening dress code there. It was fun. We did a bike tour around the Island (Joshi was in the Croozer, but fell asleep for most of the ride) and went for a swim in the Grand Hotel Pool afterwards. That night we had dinner reservations "In the Woods" and took a horse drawn carriage into the center of the Island. Next day we took of to the UP to Whitefish Bay, dipped our feet in Lake Superior and headed on to Taquamenon Falls. It was brilliant. We saw the lower falls first and then the upper falls. There we had dinner at the Brewery there afterwards. After our time up North we headed down state again to stay with Grandpa Chaz and Gramma Jeanne. Leo got to ride Jeanne's horse and in the evening Gramma Sherrit and Jim came over as well for dinner. It was great tanking up on family. Afterwards we went on to Ann Arbor for a few hours and the Hands On Museum and saw the house and neighborhood where your mama grew up. We were then back to GiGi's for a night, we had pizza and spent the next day shopping and putting up towel racks for GiGi. For the rest of the time we spent at Grandma Cindy and Grandpa John's house with a day tour to Downtown Detroit (WSU, Belle Isle, Ghetto...)
GiGi couldn't stop talking about how smart Joshi is.....he is going to be one brilliant child, she kept saying. Grandma Cindy and Grandpa John kept talking about what a truly happy kid he is. He chattered away at John when we stayed with them explaining stuff with all seriousness in his own little chatter. So cute! He was quite taken with his Grandpa Chaz as well, fascinated somehow, like he understood this is family, these people belong to me!
Mittwoch, 27. Juli 2011
mama, papa, cat treats and crane tv
This last week or so Joshi has been regularly saying mama and papa, constantly actually. Papa was more popular, he would say it all day long - now mama is becoming more popular. It is nice when he says mama and it is not attached to a complaint.
Joshi knows where the cat treats are and he can access the cupboard, lately he has started opening it and pulling out the treats, and then walking around the apartment "clicking" to call the cat. When the cat comes he brings the treats to mama or papa to open and then he gives one to the cat. Hope this doesn't lead to a fat cat.
The building across from us in the courtyard is being renovated and there is a big crane which can be seen from our kitchen window. Joshi is in love with it and it is the first thing he checks in the morning when we come into the kitchen. What is the crane doing? I set him up with breakfast in his high chair with a view of the crane, I call it crane tv. He eats and watches the crane and lets me know every time it moves.
Joshi knows where the cat treats are and he can access the cupboard, lately he has started opening it and pulling out the treats, and then walking around the apartment "clicking" to call the cat. When the cat comes he brings the treats to mama or papa to open and then he gives one to the cat. Hope this doesn't lead to a fat cat.
The building across from us in the courtyard is being renovated and there is a big crane which can be seen from our kitchen window. Joshi is in love with it and it is the first thing he checks in the morning when we come into the kitchen. What is the crane doing? I set him up with breakfast in his high chair with a view of the crane, I call it crane tv. He eats and watches the crane and lets me know every time it moves.
Dienstag, 28. Juni 2011
My Baldy
Brave boy who loves bath time and the pool - no fear of water - not much fear of anything, except for dead leaves, the sound of sirens, the cat's mouse toy (it looks so real), and being separated from mommy (totally normal).
Only walking a few months, and now he's off running - like fast! And last week he started spinning in circles, and laughing about the sensation. He even does it in on command. Mama turns in circles, he watches with fascination and then mama stops and says "now you do it", and he complies
Big little boy who loves to have his tasks, at the office it is bringing the printed off sheets to whoever printed. At home it is bringing the bunny rabbit his carrots and the kitty cat his treats and takes vacuuming very seriously too of course.
Little boy is still being nursed like a champ, but also now eating real solids, pretty much whatever we eat, especially if it is spicy: like rucola pesto, spagehtti bolognese with garlic and italian spices, garlic in general. Cheese, glorious cheese! Especially goat's cheese. And plain yogurt is still number one.
Little Mr. coordinated with an amazing sense of rhythm, dances to the sound of anything, sometimes even to the sound of nothing, hears his own music. Just discovered spinning in circles, flaps his arms like wings and stamps his feet when excited, or throws his arms down straight with fists and straightens his whole body like a lightning rod.
Litte love bug, loves to hug and gives kisses. If mama is squatting he comes running and bops and hugs her from behind! Love bug kisses pictures of animals and favorite things in his picture books, nearly every page he finds something to kiss. Love bug loves kissing mama too, all big open mouthed kisses :)))
Only walking a few months, and now he's off running - like fast! And last week he started spinning in circles, and laughing about the sensation. He even does it in on command. Mama turns in circles, he watches with fascination and then mama stops and says "now you do it", and he complies
Big little boy who loves to have his tasks, at the office it is bringing the printed off sheets to whoever printed. At home it is bringing the bunny rabbit his carrots and the kitty cat his treats and takes vacuuming very seriously too of course.
Little boy is still being nursed like a champ, but also now eating real solids, pretty much whatever we eat, especially if it is spicy: like rucola pesto, spagehtti bolognese with garlic and italian spices, garlic in general. Cheese, glorious cheese! Especially goat's cheese. And plain yogurt is still number one.
Little Mr. coordinated with an amazing sense of rhythm, dances to the sound of anything, sometimes even to the sound of nothing, hears his own music. Just discovered spinning in circles, flaps his arms like wings and stamps his feet when excited, or throws his arms down straight with fists and straightens his whole body like a lightning rod.
Litte love bug, loves to hug and gives kisses. If mama is squatting he comes running and bops and hugs her from behind! Love bug kisses pictures of animals and favorite things in his picture books, nearly every page he finds something to kiss. Love bug loves kissing mama too, all big open mouthed kisses :)))
Montag, 20. Juni 2011
Street Life Festival
We went to the Street Life Festival in Munich where Stabil was playing (musician friends of Christian). Here are some photos snapped by their photographer.
We went to the Street Life Festival in Munich where Stabil was playing (musician friends of Christian). Here are some photos snapped by their photographer.
We went to the Street Life Festival in Munich where Stabil was playing (musician friends of Christian). Here are some photos snapped by their photographer.
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