A week with Bree. This week, Bree is turning 19 months. She has added to her verbal repertoire:
“dawggeesh!” which for some reason sounds rather Indian to me but refers to her doggie pacifier.
“moo!” for moon
“djuce” for juice
2 word sentences, such as “Bao-bao, mahmee mahmee!” and “peetty wah wah” (pretty wah wah (doll in Chinese))
Bree still drinks warm milk in a bottle, preferably with me or Jan holding the bottle. She leans back against us with elbows splayed wide and inhales up to 9 oz at a time. What a contrast to Anya or Liya who by this time were drinking from a sippy cup all the time! In terms of eating though, Bree is a pro with the fork. She has yet to discover, however, that food stays on a spoon much better when the spoon is right side up!
We took away her dawggeesh except for nap and nighttimes on Thursday. She moped around the house, alternatively searching for and mourning her loss and pointing insistently at the drawer where we keep her extra dawggeesh’s and exclaiming. She has gotten better the past few days, though like an addict, she could easily slide back.
Speaking of addictions, Bree has discovered M & M’s. Appropriately, she demands them by saying, “mmMMMMM!!!! mmmmMMMMM!!!”
Signing off til next time…
Sky day at Stevens Pass. Jan, Anya, and Liya went up to Stevens for a day of skiing. The girls had Jan tell them a story for more than an hour on the way up, so they never even fired up one of the movies they’d brought. We got all our rentals surprisingly quickly, so we were on the mountain by 10:30. We started on the Daisy Chair. Anya showed her propensity to go off little jumps or detour trails on the side of the run. Liya did great keeping up with her older sister. After a couple of runs on Daisy, we moved over to the Hogsback Chair for some blue runs. We took a break for lunch, then back out. The girls wanted to try using poles, so we picked up some rental poles for them, then headed up Hogsback. Anya really wanted to follow a narrow trail through some trees, and against his better judgment Jan agreed. We ended up halfway down Parachute, a black diamond run. Anya made it down some moguls with no incident, and Liya did pretty well too, falling only once. We went back down another blue run, then Liya finally fell on a somewhat steep part of a blue run. She was very tired, and basically done for the day, although she asked to go down one more run on Daisy. Anya dropped one of her poles on the way up, but we managed to pick it up on our run back down. On the car ride home, the girls made Jan continue the story from the morning for another hour.