perez family

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Jason's Vocab Explosion

These words and combinations of these words, like, "Out kitty!" and "dirty bum" to name a few.

Various animal words (as well as other animal sounds): woof woof, bah bah, nay nay, moo moo, duh duh...duh duh (a shark), hop hop

tie, bee, two, eight, now, hi, wow, toe, eye, bum, wee wee, knee, oma, opa, baby (calls himself baby), momma, dadda, hat, hot (sometimes hat & hot sound the same, but he knows the difference), on, off, out, no, yeah, dino, up, down, oh boy, oh my!, Noah

Nephi - (nee-pie)
more - (mo!)
bike - (bipe)
ball - (ba-w)
pillow - (pi-wo)
kitty - (diddy)
toy - (doy)
hand - (han) or more like "on" w/ an "h"
back - (ba)
neck - (ne)
nose - (no)
elbow - (e-bo)
bib - (bih)
potato, tomato - sound the same, but he knows the difference
pepper - (pep-o)
milk - (ma)
apple - (app-o)
peas - (pea)
banana - (nana) or (manana) and sometimes (ba-nana)
cheese - (tsz)
dirty - (do-dee)
table - (tay-bo)
bottle - (bah-bo)
bowl - (bow), pronounced like a hair bow
plate - (pay)
mosquito - (o-dee-doe)
turtle - (toe-doe)
owl - (ow-o)
more - (mo)
please - (pee)
hello - (he-wo??) He only says "hello" if he holding something up to his ear, and then says it like a question
both - (bo-d)
oopsie - (oop-y) Possibly my favorite
three - (dee)
five - (fie)
nine - (ny)
ow (or ow-wa as I say) - (ow-wa)
yellow - (ye-wo)
blue - (boo)
purple - (pu-po) This is his word for grapes
all done - (ah done)
bottle - (baa-bo)
diaper - (dy-po)
poop - (poo poo)
tooting/toots - (doot)
potty - (poddy)
sneeze - (neee)
zebra - (za-za)
rhino - (i-no) So cute 'cause it sounds like he's saying "I know"
hipo - (ippo)
umbrella - (a-la-la)
vroom vroom - (va va)
vacuum - (deee!!) Who knows why
pretty - (piddy)
towel - (tow-wo)
turning - (do-nee)
water - (wa-wa)
sneeze - (neee)
ring - (een)
snow - (sss no)
book - says it like book, without the "k"
broom - (booom!! booom!!)
Ava, Emma, Abby (sorry, the boys' names are harder for him, but we'll work on it ;)

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

We're Potty Training!

Jason's choice, not mine. I figured we'd wait till he was older, since I've heard boys aren't usually ready till they're 3. And he's not even 2 yet. But I attribute it to a few things:

1. I read an article in "Parenting" magazine about a lady who did what she called "Potty Training Boot Camp" where the kids ran around naked in the back yard all day. Long story short, one of the things I got from the article was that every time she'd take them to their little potty chair or to the actual potty or every time they went elsewhere, she'd say "Poop goes in the potty" or "Pee goes in the potty." (I tried the actual Boot Camp part of it once. It ended when Jason stabbed himself in down there with a stick and bled.) Anyway, I started saying that every time I could tell he was pooping.

2. When changing his diaper, I'd show him the poop. So he learned what poop was and also learned what/where the potty was.

3. I brought up his potty chair a month or so ago and put it in the bathroom. At first I just let him sit on it. But I never ever let him play with it. It's brightly colored plastic, so it looks like one of his toys, but I don't want him to ever play with it when there really IS something in there. *yuck*

4. I always keep the bathroom door closed because I don't want him playing with the toilet paper or the plunger or the toilet bowl scrubber. So when he does get to go in the bathroom, it's a real treat (at least for him). And I sometimes (not often though) let him watch when I go to the bathroom. (All moms do that, right?)

Then recently with all those things (but especially I think because of #1 &2), he started really wanting to go to the potty room. So we now go through all the steps: turn on the light, pull down the pants, pull down the diaper, sit on his potty chair, I ask if he can poop, he tries, then we put everything back on, he flushes the real toilet (probably his favorite part), and we wash our hands (his other favorite part). One of these days, I expect something will actually come out when he tries. And I'm pretty impressed that he's doing this without me forcing him to. :)

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Halloween Carnival & Trunk or Treat

I have a new calling - I'm in the Primary Presidency. (For those unfamiliar with Mormon lingo, that means I'm in charge of certain aspects of our local church children's organization [18 mo-12 yrs]. Me and three other women.) I have mixed feelings about this new calling. Foremost, I really miss teaching the 7 & 8 year old sunday school class. I love those kids!! Man I miss teaching them. Teaching in any form is my possibly one of my favorite things. Luckily, I'll still get to teach every once in a while with my new calling, just on a slightly bigger scale. Also, I feel totally inadequate and overwhelmed. But I suppose those are normal feelings for almost any new calling.

Anyway, we have the Primary Program coming up (where the children sing and speak and sing and speak for the hour of our local church's main meeting) as well as the Halloween Carnival & Trunk or Treat. [Big things, lots to do.] For the Halloween activity, I've put together some cute signs and flyers that I want to share :).

Flyers/Invites:

Obviously I still need to fill in the address part.
Highlighted so I don't forget.

For the pictures behind the words: pictures from google image searches. Then in Picasa, I used the "Glow" Effect, which made them gray. Then in Word, I inserted a picture. Right clicked on the picture, and under Text Wrapping, chose "Behind Text", then moved it to where I wanted it and made it the right size.

Lanyards (we'll hang these around the kids necks and then when they go to the various activity stations, we'll punch a whole next to that one, so we know where they've been already and what they should go to next):

Don't know why those are blacked out...

Signs for the room doors:

To be made in the shape of a ghost.

Opted for a non-spooky font so they won't
think it's a scary halloween movie.

Face Painting Ideas (for the kids to pick from):

The blacked out one was a witch's hat.

I got all of these by doing google searches for things like "halloween skeleton outline". And some were solid black (like that witch on the broom) so instead of using tons of black ink to print them out, I used Picasa and then clicked on the "Edit in Picnik" option. From there, under "Effects" I chose "Invert" and then "Pencil Sketch".