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Week 230: Pool, Words, and Yes June 25, 2008
As you can probably see from the pictures, we had a pool-filled weekend thanks to Ger's godparents. Samantha continues her psychotic disregard for the danger of water when gathered in massive quantities, and has as her new thing jumping into the pool. But actually with the life vest on she's able to keep upright and her head above water, so she just takes constant surveilance if not contact.
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Mandy also enjoyed the pool, and even got into the whole jumping in act. She'd stand at the edge of the pool looking at Ger or me with our arms raised up in preparation for saving her life, then yell "Jump! Jump!" before just kind of ...leaning and falling forward. Often she even went into the pool. Then she'd want to do it again.
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Speaking of Mandy and speaking, I did a little experiment this weekend where I wrote down in a notebook every word she said. Here's where we ended up:
Mommy, cup, sister, Sammy, cat, car, Daddy, eat, please, milk, outside, chair, table, peas, TV, potty, bath, bed, teeth, no, down, home, go, Papa, doggie, swing, hat, sock, baby, book, bird, cow, star, read, poo-poo, shower, Mandy, ball, truck, bowl, napkin, bunny, stair, step, up, uh-oh, cheese, cracker, snack, hand, hair, and play.
And the weird thing is that she said all of these words at once on Friday night and then didn't say anything else the whole weekend. Curiously missing from that list, you may have noticed, is the word "Yes" or any variant thereof. Despite having learned to use "no" whenever something displeases here, Mandy has never said "yes," electing instead to nod vigorously. I'm giving her until next week.
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