Where's your nose?

Kate's been learning her body parts. She can point to her nose, mouth, eyes, belly button, head, feet, toes, and sometimes her ears (though she easily confuses ears and eyes). Here she is pointing to her eyes - ouch!

Added to her word list this week has been "mah-w mah-w" (meow meow) - the sound that a kitty cat makes. She loves helping out in the kitchen - taking things out and putting things away. She's able to bring her mom things from around the house more and more, when asked.

She even gives the cutest little kisses (no open mouth kissing anymore!)




The weather has gotten really hot again around here. We took a long drive last weekend to Ventura, where Kate enjoyed stomping and touching the sand. When we left the house, the temp read 99 degrees. By the time we reached the beach, it was 72 degrees, so taking a drive to the beach really does help us to cool off. We also found some playgrounds for Kate to climb and we did a little of window shopping.





And for those of you who have insisted on pictures of Kate's first tooth (her top left), here it is. The only time we can get a good look at it is when we turn her upside down and tickle her - so...

Communication

Kate's been talking up a storm. Not talking as in stringing nouns and verbs together into a sentence talking, but finding new ways to get her message across.

She can carry an entire monologue in grunts.

She points up into the sky and grunts whenever an airplane flies overhead.
She squatted down in the backyard, did the sign for "toilet" and piddled on the lawn.
She says "gen" when she wants something opened ("pen").
She says "goo gooo" when she want to watch Blue's Clues on TV.
I swear that I heard her say what sounded like "Whatcha doin' Mommy?" when she opened the door to where I was.
She said "cool!" when she caused a toy to zoom by her.
She comes to have her diaper changed about half of the time when I ask her.
She will fetch an object for us if she knows what it is and can see it.

It's hot (and I'm not wearing pants)

Temperatures have been soaring here in Southern California. Most days are in the upper 90's and low 100's. Evenings haven't been cooling off much either. It's too hot to go to the park with Kate, and the car gets sooo hot from standing that we're not running many errands during the day either.

We've set up a baby pool in our backyard for Kate to splash around in - which is good, since she still doesn't like her baths. The nice thing about having a pool in the backyard -- playing without clothes on!