Better pronunciation
"Osh" is now "off."
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December 29, 2001
New York City
Savannah made her first trip to the city tonight. She did great. We wrapped up in the stroller, and she was happy to stay there, no fussing to get out except when we entered the resaurant. She likes people and lights and noise and cars. We drove as close as we could to Ground Zero. Besides the flood lights, there was the biggest crane I've ever seen as well as a mist of dust in the flood lights and a mound of rubble, quite smaller than it had been I'm sure. Savannah couldn't have seen it, much less understood what it was. It was too cold to get out and walk down. Brad's parents want to go. They may come at the end of next summer. Perhaps visitors can get closer to the site. Savannah will be three then and may even have the memory later in life.
December 28, 2001
New favorite number
Savannah's favorite number is no longer "sedenteen" She loves canned peach slices, and always asks for five.
December 24, 2001
Her full name
Savannah pronounces her full name "Mianna Vanna Choate" which is supposed to be Mia Savannah Choate.
December 21, 2001
Just us 2
Savannah did so well today. We left her with a friend and her children while we went to NYC with another couple. We saw Lord of the Rings, good movie, very well done, ate at Virgil's BBQ and watched the zamboni going back and forth on the ice at Rockefeller Center. It was a fun, refreshing day. We left Savannah this long one other time. She handled it well then, but it was a year ago and I wondered how she would do since she's so much more aware of me and Daddy and her whereabouts. We picked her up at her adopted grandparents' house, (They kept her too to shorten the other babysitter's day.) and she nonchallantly looked up from her dinner plate and acknowleged me as if I'd just gotten up from a nap. It was good for her. Tomorrow we're taking advantage of a babysitting service at the church building.
December 19, 2001
Another wardrobe
Some time ago, I realized something fantastic. When Savannah's big enough, I could have another wardrobe! I just hope I don't hate her taste in clothes.
December 18, 2001
Update on her new bed
It took Savannah three hours to go to sleep in her new grown up bed that first night. This is the fourth night, and she's slowly getting better. Last night I found her, in the same corner she'd fallen asleep, but she had done a 180. So far no falls. She has cushions there just in case.
No Siddy Biddy
Brad likes to tease Savannah by calling her a silly billy. She's going through a phase where she disagrees with him a lot. She says "No siddy biddy." If he calls her Daddy's girl, she says, "No girl. Baby." She doesn't like silly girl, but agrees with silly baby.
December 15, 2001
Bad songs
I used to sing made up songs to Savannah. I still do occasionally. Now, she prefers that I sing the jingles from her favorite cartoons, mainly Dora the Explorer and Blues' Clues. But the other night while I was rocking her, I made a new one up which obviously sounded made up. She raised her head up and said, "I n't like dat."
Grown up bed
Savannah moved into a real bed tonight. Brad's grandfather, Papa Burton, made it a few years ago, and Brad slept on it as a teenager. It's a half bed with three drawers underneath. Her room is almost finished, another coat on the trim, the doors still to paint and her side table to paint. I have my eye on a yellow rug at Home Depot. She still wasn't asleep 10 minutes ago. She was really happy about her new bed this evening, and asked if she could sleep in it. She wasn't too happy after lying there for 20 minutes. We put cushions down just in case. We've considered a side rail, but it seems to me she'll still know subconsiously that she's protected. She's woken up dry for several days in a row. Maybe we won't have to buy the pull-ups soon!
December 3, 2001
Missing Daddy
Today while I was painting the chair rail for Savannah's new room, she sat in a chair looking toward the door saying, "Come in Daddy. Sit Daddy. Daddy no erk (work)."
December 2, 2001
Savannah's pronunciation
empity, piciture, i keem (ice cream), iddy biddy (little bitty), boo boos (Blue'e Clues), cudor (color), shoes osh (shoes off)
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