C is for Cookie

Youtube is one of the coolest things about the interweb.  We have used it so much to entertain the Cheese.  We've gone through several fads, beginning with the great Snuggle Puppy video that she's dug on since she was about 9 months.  Then there was Davy Jones' Personal Penguin.  Lately these two oldies, but goodies haven't been cuttin' it on the entertainment front.  Lynnie started pulling up these classic Sesame Street shorts - including Jon-Jon counting.  Everyone loves Cookie Monster, but the Cheese takes it to levels bordering on obsession.  She is the Cookie Monster groupie.

Phone

Technology is what really moves the Cheese.  Some kids like music, some kids like a favorite toy, but the Cheese is all about technology.  Anything with buttons and lights will cause her to drop what she's doing and go in hot pursuit.  I recently got a new cell phone which has become part of our bedtime routine.  Every night, either before or after her bath, she spends some time on the potty WITH my cell phone.  She holds on so tightly to that thing, I don't worry about her dropping it in there.  She has some great conversations on it, too. 

Moo Baa LaLaLa!

When the Cheese was but a wee lass of 4 or 5 months, Lynnie started reading her stories.  The Cheese loved this, especially after bath time.  We would all go into her room, and Lynnie would get her all ready for bed while I laid next to her on the floor and distracted her with the same stories night after night.   

Here she is enjoying some cereal and reciting on of her favorites with her mom.  This is Moo Baa LaLaLa.  It's highly entertaining.  

  

Waking Up

Waking up isn't always easy.  The Cheese, however, has no problems with starting a new day/continuing her day after catching some zzzz's.  She just pops up like toast, starts talking, and gets right in there.  I wish I was like her!

You can pick out somethings that she says.  I think she talks about momma, her "biddy" - that would be her blanket, and the potty.  

Basket-Head

The Cheese has found a favorite new past time, taking things out of containers and putting them back in.  She does this with everything.  She took all of her bath toys and threw them out of the tub, one by one.  The other day, she got a hold of a basket with blankets in it.  She took all the blankets out, then walked around the living room schlepping this basket around with her.  She walked it over to Lynnie and, I'm not sure how, but this is what happened.

The Cheese and Lynn sat there for a while.  When Julia gets under the basket, she points to her fingers and talks - a lot.  I tried to get it on video, but as usual I was a bit too late, as the Cheese was starting to wind down.  

Bawl!

The other day, Lynnie came home from a shopping run with this giant ball.  The Cheese pretty much flipped her lid.  She loves chasing the ball, especially after it bounces off her head.  I know it's weird, but she really likes saying, "BONK."  Today, Lynnie put peas on her plate.  She had seen these in their natural state before, but tonight after rolling them around in her fingers for about 10 minutes, it finally hit her what these things on her plate were.  "BAWL!"  I don't know why, but when she says ball, she totally sounds like a New Yorker.

  

Answering the Eternal Question: Who DID Let The Dogs Out?

I know it has been a very long time since our last post.  We are settling in here in Virginia and are really enjoying our new life out here.  On Valentine's Day, Julia got a card from Bubbee that played music.  Julia is used to the more sultry tunes of The Wiggles, Aretha Franklin, and Johnny Cash.  So, when Who Let the Dogs Out screamed at her from the nice doggy pictures on the card, she got a little scared.  It's kind of funny because she makes the same face as the monkey on her favorite hoody.  But you can't believe what a difference a day makes.  Check it out.

Thankfully, after a few days Julia's techno-curiosity got the best of her.  She finally found out that this cool lookin' computer chip thing was making the card sing.  Thankfully, this discovery is what finally stopped the song.  There are still nights, when I am laying in bed, falling asleep in our quiet house, and I can still hear, "WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? WOOF WOOF WOOF!!" banging around in my head.  Aaah.  Good times.