{"id":802,"date":"2006-09-03T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tessa.datdec.com\/wordpress\/?p=802"},"modified":"2006-09-03T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-03T19:56:00","slug":"words-words-and-more-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Words, words, and more words"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past week or so, Lex’s vocabulary
\n has gotten great. He started using multiple phonemes and
\n repeating, or trying to repeat, words we say. He says “house”
\n and “mouse” and “milk” and “socks” and “snack” (“nack” really),
\n but his new favorite word, and activity, is “books.” He says
\n the word perfectly and he’s become quite the avid reader. Well,
\n listener anyway, as he forces us to read hundreds of books a
\n day to him. “Baby Donald Goes to Playland” appears to be his
\n favorite and it’s an absolutely horrible Disney book. But he
\n loves it, so we read it about 20 times a day. Sometimes he’ll
\n bring me a book, say “book”, then drop it on the floor so he
\n can make the sign, then pick it back up and hand it to me :)
\n Very smart baby. And silly. Today he came up to me, book in
\n hand, and said “dogs.” I was confused and almost corrected him,
\n but then I noticed the book he had was “Doggies”<\/a> by Sandra Boynton. My
\n favorite is “Hey! Wake Up!”<\/a> also by Sandra
\n Boynton. On the page that says “Shout out loud, GOOD MORNING
\n SUN, HAPPY MORNING EVERYONE” I shout it out loud and Lex laughs
\n and laughs. He now expects it and as soon as we turn to the
\n page he whips his head around to look at me :) <\/p>\n

Anyway, lots going on these days. We spent
\n about 5 hours in Home Depot yesterday trying to order cabinets.
\n It was pretty much a nightmare. We were too disorganzied (the
\n three of us and Alan’s parents) and didn’t quite know what we
\n wanted, I had a few false assumptions that I didn’t state
\n clearly so no one was able to correct, and our sales lady was
\n less than helpful. So it was long and annoying. But we do owe a
\n big thanks to Grandpa Don for being such a great babysitter! We
\n ended up with a quote for $8200 *choke* and went home to
\n regroup and put the baby to bed. After dinner and some online
\n research we saw the error in our ways. We were being quoted
\n full custom cabinetry and that’s not exactly what we had the
\n budget for. We ended up going back and buying about half of
\n what we need in prefab cabinets that you can buy right off the
\n shelf. Lower quality (yes, I’ll admit it), but more inline with
\n the wallet. So, by 10:00pm (we closed Home Depot!!) we finally
\n made some progress. Don’t worry, Grandpa was babysitting the
\n sleeping boy at home. We didn’t keep either of them up that
\n late! :) <\/p>\n

Today we did some online
\n research at Consumer Reports and went to Sears with a list of
\n appliances we needed, hoping for a Labor Day sale. Turns out
\n they don’t have a Labor Day sale (well, they have a standard
\n sale that lasts for a few weeks, but nothing specific) and,
\n more importantly, they didn’t have anything we needed! Another
\n wasted trip! At least Lex had fun climbing on the treadmills,
\n riding the lawn mowers, and “helping” other customers with
\n their shopping. <\/p>\n

So here we are,
\n shopping online. Why do we bother leaving the house anyway?
\n :)<\/p>\n

On a bright note, we went to the
\n house yesterday to do measurements (another aggrivation at Home
\n Depot) and met the current owners (ok) and one of our
\n soon-to-be neighbors. He was very nice and has two Golden
\n Retrievers. Lex was in heaven. I told the guy that it would be
\n very hard to keep Lex out of his yard. He laughed and said his
\n boys are both grown and there are no grandkids yet, so he’d
\n love company from a friendly baby. The dogs even let Lex sit on
\n them! All will be good once the remodeling is done and we’re
\n living in our new house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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