The Oster Five

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Bethany's Language Development

The chord to hook up our new camera to our computer is in St. Louis (totally my fault for leaving it!), so there are no wonderful pics of us with our beautifully big snowman in STL to share and no pics of today's snow here in GA to show either. They will come soon!

But I can share the latest words that Bethany has been using. Her vocabulary is definitely increasing daily, and though I still have to translate a little for her, she is doing pretty well.

Here's a short list of the words I can think of right now:

Omi--Naomi

Jay juh--Jacob

Yous--Shoes

Knows--Snow

Die Dee--Diaper

Joo or Joos--Juice

Bookuh (with a very German gutteral "k" sound)--Book

Potty--One of her favorites. She asks to go potty and wants to sit on the toilet fully clothed and then wipe with lots of toilet paper. Yesterday when Nate got home from work she asked if he needed to go potty ("Potty daddy?") and when he answered in the positive, she asked if she could tag along ("Wi you potty?").

Baby--Still a favorite word and toy. She LOVES to carry baby and find baby a blanket ("bankeh") and changed baby's die dee and give baby joo, etc.

Basically she can say anything she wants to and most of the time it comes out recognizable. The only word I can't figure out is "yowee." At first I thought she was saying "yellow," but that doesn't really fit in most contexts. She talks about "yowee" mostly when she is reading a "bookuh." Does anyone have any clues??

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Christmas at Grandpa and Grandma's

Yeah for more presents in STL! (And Merry Christmas again, everyone!)

Naomi got an American Girl Doll that looks like her.

Jacob got Transformers, a motorcycle, and lots more!

Grandpa and Bethany checking each other out.

Jon spent quite a while changing Optimus Prime into a truck.

And the day after we got there, we got another present...snow!!

Good thing everyone got winter boots from Grandma! We had a great time playing in the snow!

with Grandma Street

exercising with Olivia and Abby--yes, ALL of the kids were exercising!

Christmas at Home

Aren't they cute?

Family Pic, Christmas Day 2009

Jacob woke up before Naomi and was told, "You can open your gifts when Naomi wakes up." When Naomi stumbled sleepily through the doorway, Jacob began heartily ripping into his first gift. He had one opened before we even knew what was going on!

Naomi said her favorite gift was her hair dryer and make up mirror!

Jacob's "big" gifts were a marshmallow shooter and a bunch of boy dress up.

Bethany sporting her new Tinker Bell costume and showing off her Noah's Ark blocks.

Lest you think Bethany is always smiling, here she is after we took took the (half-eaten) bag of gold fish away. If she could, Bethany would tell you that the gold fish in her stocking were her FAVORITE gift at home!