Fernversations: summer edition

I wanted to officially wrap up this little hiatus with a fun little "Fernversations" post. She's talking so much, now, you guys. Actual CONVERSATIONS. It's nuts. and she's saying the FUNNIEST most ridiculous things. Here are a few things she threw at me this summer.

Photo by Hibben Photography

::While playing hide and seek::

Fern: "momma! hide too!"

me (crawling under the covers with Fern & Tristan) "okay! but who's going to find us if we're all hiding??"

Fern: (whispers in a super creepy voice) "chhhiiiicken pot pieeeeee"


::popcorn popping in the mircorwave::
me: "mmmmmm. what's that smell!?"
Fern: "choooooooocolate" (Frozen reference)
me: "nooooo.... not chocolate! guess again!"
Fern: "pooooooooooop".
::face palm::

After painting her toenails earlier that day:
Fern lays on her belly in the living room floor cupping my toes (in desperate need of a pedicure) and says "WOOOOOOOOOOW. BEAAAUUTIFUL MOMMA!"

In my room putting on my makeup
Fern: "tum on mama. Play Fern!" (everything is in 3rd person these days)
Me: "oh, baby.. in a minute. I'm putting my makeup on. would you like some of your lip gloss?
Fern: "fern's turn"
--fern puts on her chapstick, turns to the mirror smacking her lips--
Fern: "FANTASTIC!"

Lately Fern likes to come up and put me in choke holds when I'm sitting on the floor.
Me: ack! Fern! Please don't do that baby, that really hurts my neck.
Fern: sorry buddy. sorry dude.


Fern's favorites: (quotations = as answered by Fern)

Favorite food: "Fern eats chicken pot pie".. it's true. she does.
Favorite toy: "... ummm.. chicken pot pie. "
Favorite word: (do I even have to ask? ) Lately it's been, you guessed it, "chicken pot pie" or "fantastic"
Favorite item of clothing: a dress. any dress, every dress. She also loves tying her blanket around her shoulders and referring to herself as "Princess Elsa Fern".
Favorite movie/show: Dora anything, "stickey mouse", and Charlottes Web. (which I'm so so tired of)
Favorite place to visit: The "libary".
Best Friend: "pay Lila" - translation: "play with Lila". It's true. Lila is a sweet little girl in her class. I dont know if she actually plays with Lila that much, but I always ask her what she did at school that day, and she always answers "Pay Lila". Unless Lila is some kind of MDO scam artist conning my child out of her piggy bank pennies.. You never know. It's the sweet ones you gotta watch out for.
Favorite book: "chick-boom-boom". Which translates to "Chicka-chicka-boom-boom" Which is the only book so far that we've received from our book swap- but it was so worth it because she LOVES it.
Favorite game: "hide and seek". She's the worst at hiding and we get such a kick out of it. But then when it's her turn to seek, she totally fake seeks like we do.. looking in laundry baskets saying "momma in here?... nooooooooo" until she finds us. Hilarious.


Noteable moments:

My most favorite thing that I hope nobody ever corrects her on ever, is the way she calls Mickey Mouse "Stickey Mouse".

Fern's MDO teacher has been teaching her salsa, and she's pretty good at it. note: yet another thing she does not get from her mother: coordination.

Anytime she can segway into talking about her "elbone" (elbow), she does. You'd be surprised at how well she makes it work.

Fernversations

Last time I posted about the little "isms" of Fern it was only the small list of words she was getting comfortable saying. Now, she says EVERYTHING. She repeats it all. She's starting to string words together and make little phrases and it's just so darn cute.

A few as of late:

good boy- ooboy
King sit - teen sit!
it's okay- sokay
oh boy! 
oh no! - oh noooooooooo!
there it is - eh-itis
i love you- effooo
Bubble Guppies- buppies
Paw Patrol- paw-tol
please stop- pees top! (with both hands out in front)
chicken and french fries (which she wants for lunch EVERY DAY) - uckin and feshfies
snow monster- no-muster
cute, momma, cute- tute momma, tute.
momma, Fern's happy- momma fuwn appy!
**Fern is said without the "r"
i tooted- this one of course, she says just like it sounds- so everyone knows what's going on anytime we're in public. It's often prefaced with a loud gasp, or "uh oh!" *half the time it's not just a toot.
If there is two of anything (for example- cups) she recites  "momma tup, fuwn tup"


These are just a few, I can't wait until she actually starts stringing together sentences. This girl is such a comedian.

Read more "Fernversations" here

Fernversations 1.0

 February 2014 | 21 months 

This little chump has grown quite an extensive vocabulary. THIS stage. This. is what I've been waiting for. I love her little voice and the things she says. The way she pronounces words, and I'm the only one who knows what in the world she's saying. I can't wait until she can form sentences and tell us her thoughts. <3 sweet little dumplin'. Here are some of her favorite words and their pronunciations. 

momma

daddy da-ee

grandma mah-ma

grandpa umpah

Morgan moogie (accompanied by a tilt of her head side to side. every time)

Ashley atchie

Alfie afie

Tianna nana

Mimsy mimee

Christie chistee

Rusty usty

okay otay!

here we go eego!

slide side

park pok

treat teat

snack nak

poop -

toot -

book buk

please peeeeeeeeeeeaase

thank you tankoo

oh no -

uh oh -

Dora - 

arriba (spanish for up) eeba!

abrir (spanish for open) ahbay

off ots

pizza tseetsah

chicken bok bok bok bok (acompanied by "the chicken dance)

fruit fewt

King nee

Caddy taddy

Waylon maymen

Bubble Guppies  buppies

Molly mahee

Nonnie -

milk muk

juice jewsh

cupcake - tuptake

Those are just some of the every day translations, but this girl- she's starting to repeat every little thing. It's so hilarious. She knows all of her body parts, she can count to three, and she's learning her colors. She knows orange, blue, black, purple, pink. She can tell you almost every animal and what they say (my favorite is the elephant). 

She prefers salt to sweet, unless it's her fruit snacks. She'd eat pizza for every meal if I let her, and when it's time for bed she gets excited (usually). We give her her blanket and bunny that she sleeps with, and she's usually so excited because she knows it's bedtime, she'll give off this tired giggle that just melts me to puddles. 

She loves books. We read "goodnight moon" and "the monster book" (<- not the official name ) several times a day. In close company is her "moby dick ocean primer" book and "you're my little cupcake". 

She's very cautious, but courageous at the same time. She likes to keep close to me until she's very comfortable, but once she is she'll run off by herself and do whatever she wants. Loud noises, and animals she doesn't know make her very timid and cautious. She's still not a big fan of most men. Except her daddy, and she's warming up to my grandpa.. but he knows how to make the chicken train go- so.. he's got that on his side. 

I can't believe how much she's growing. 

I need to keep doing little updates like this here and there to track the progress. It's just amazing how much and how quickly they take things in at this age. I'm totally in awe. 

I don't want her to grow up too fast though. 

Stay little, Fernie... <3

(this is my 100th blog post, by the way)