Father's Day

Scott got a banana cream pie (his favorite) for Father's Day.

He got help blowing out the candles.

C. is getting very good at eating with a spoon and a fork.

Scott is the best daddy in the world. Celeste is his little princess and he adores her. He plays with her, makes her laugh, reads to her, teaches her things like counting, and to hold her nose and say "Eeewww!" when she sees a skunk. He sings to her, ballroom dances with her, and wrestles with her. He changes diapers, and gets up in the night when Celeste needs a drink of water. He stays with her in nursery so she won't be sad. (The honey-moon is over for nursery.)

Celeste gets excited to see Scott when he comes home from work. She missed him when he went fishing the other weekend and kept looking all over the house for him. Recently Celeste has started a new game where she says to Scott, "Mama!", and he says:"No, I'm Daddy." and then she says: "Mama!", and he says: "Daddy", and she says:"Mama", and he says "Daddy." and on and on and on. And she thinks it's so funny. Since Scott enjoys debating, I told him that finally he would have someone to debate with.

Egin Lake

Ready for adventure. She liked exploring the sandy hills.


Can't wait to get in that water.


The water was nice and warm and shallow.


Girl toes. C. enjoyed getting her nails painted for the first time yesterday.

Looking for tadpoles.

Getting braver.

Drying off in the warm sand.

A few other people were there.

Some people on horses rode across the lake.

Contrary to popular belief, there is a spot at the St Anthony sand dunes where you can go without being run over by an ATV. Celeste and I found it. It's a little lake in the sand that didn't get deeper than knee high. Since Scott was fishing we thought we'd have a girl adventure. We caught tadpoles in the lake. I was excited to see one of my maps hanging on the BlM kiosk there.

Kids say the cutest things

Celeste was feeding her cabbage patch kid dinner at the table. She held a green bean up to the doll's mouth, then she'd eat it herself. After several beans were given to the doll and then eaten, she said to the doll: "Oh, nooo! It's too hot, honey."

Celeste was looking at a picture book about frogs. It is full of colorful photos. A section of the book is on preditors, and shows a racoon catching a frog. I usually say, look at the cute racoon. But this time she was reading the book to me. When we got to this page she pointed to the frog and said. "Oh, no! He's in trouble!" Maybe daddy reads this book differently.

For the most part I don't understand what she says. It will be a year or two before she has full control of her lips and tongue, but here are a few of the things she says all the time:

Hi
Hello
Bye
Mama
Daddy
Mo [more]
Eat [I'm hungry or thirsty.]
Tuh [I’m stuck, please help me down / This container is stuck, please open it.]
Weeeee [I want to go to the park.]
Baby
BeeBee [binky]
Oh, Wow! [I see something really interesting!]
Hot [Something is hot/warm.]
Outside
Goh [goat]
Boh [bear]
Nake [snake]
Yeah
Night, Night. [That animal or person is sleeping.]
Juice
Nana [banana]
Cheese
Eeewwww [I see a picture of a skunk.]
Uh, Oh! [Something was dropped/the movie is over.]
No! [I want it. / I don't want it.]
Oh, no!
Amen
Ball
Boon [balloon]
Moo [moon]

Celeste's Sign language:
Thank you.
Eat
More
Hot
Airplane
Bird
Movie (impersonates cookie monster)

Celeste's Animal sounds:
Nay - Horse
Mooo - Cow
Bah - Sheep
Eee, Eeee – Eagle
Whistling - Song Bird
Spitting - Camel
Sssss - Snake
Arff arff (loudly)-Dog
Noooo – [meow] Cat
Oooh oooh ooh - Monkey
Awwwoooooh! - Wolf
Snorting - Pig
AhhhEeehahh – (uses arm as trunk) Elephant
Hoo hoo - Owl

Other sounds:
Beep beep [car horn]
Hooowoooh [Train]
Mmmm Mmmmm [Noise made when playing with her toy cars]

Songs she does some of the actions and some singing for:
Wheels on the bus
Old McDonald had farm
5 little monkeys jumping on bed
Popcorn popping
My hands
ABC song

Sunday Afternoon Walk to the Temple Visitor Center

Celeste is one of the flowers.


"We match"



C. enjoyed going up and down the stairs more than anything.

Praying

Admiring the statue of Christ

Checking out the high tech touch screen

me

C. pointing at the angel Moroni statue

Silly stink bug

Heart of flowers