Genius Baby February 21, 2009

This morning when we dropped Ariyana off at school, her teacher told us she was a baby genius. She got all excited and told us that Ariyana is so smart and she amazes her. She said they were playing a matching game that had 2 pairs of dogs and 2 pairs of cats. The object of the game was to match the pairs together. Her teacher said it took her a minute to figure out what to do but once she did she matched all 4 pairs together. Her teacher was very impressed that she could do that at her age, the other kids in the class could not.

Then this afternoon when I picked her up, her other teacher was telling me that the other parents all comment on how much Ariyana talks. Apparently she tells all the kids and parents bye when they leave in the afternoon (she is usually the last one to leave). Her teacher said she is also a good cleaner. Today she told Ariyana to put the blocks away and Ariyana did it…..and sometimes she has a cloth and is helping clean the door when I get there. She said Ariyana is very good at listening to directions, when she wants to. She is really becoming a little girl now and not just a baby………It is really cool!!!

Oh yeah and here is a funny story………..yesterday in the car on our way home, I kept hearing “mmmmmmaa” coming from the back seat. I looked back there and Ariyana was back there with her shoes and socks off, her foot up to her mouth, kissing her toes. It was so funny, she would lower her foot, then grab it and kiss it again. She is SO crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Her favorite thing to do in the car is take her shoes and socks off. She usually has at least one shoe off before we get out of the daycare parking lot. And sometimes she can’t get her socks all the way off so she screams and you have to help her………..this child has such a foot fetish!!!!!!!!!!!! She was sucking her toe the other day too.

FIRST WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 November 17, 2008

All day long on Sunday, we would say “hi” to Ariyana and she would say it back….and we were just so excited that she was saying that.  Well then after Zach gave her a bath, he was putting on her pjs on the changing table and he was saying “baby” to her over and over again.  We have been trying to get her to say baby for a little while now but with no success.  Well then out of nowhere she says “baby.”  Zach got so excited, I could hear him yelling in the kitchen.  He kept saying, “she said baby, she said baby.”  I told him that was awesome and I wanted to hear her say it to.  He brought her down in the living room and she was playing on her rocking snail and Zach was sitting in front of her saying baby over and over.  Well she said it again and again and again.  I ran and got the camera……so excited that she had said her first word besides hi.  I thought for sure she wouldn’t say it again since I got the camera.  But to my surprise, she said it again TWICE while the video was rolling!!!!!  The first one wasn’t that clear on video, but the second one was AWESOME and below you can hear it.