O-R-E-O

As Dakota was devouring a Mint Oreo today, she suddenly looked down at it with intense concentration and spelled "O-R-E-O". LOL She noticed the writing on the cookie. Well, she can't quite read yet, but she can spell!

KO-DA

Dakota calls herself "Ida". So we've been trying to teach her to say "KO-da". She can say it, but still says Ida most the time. Today, I said, "Say, KO-da" and she said, "KO-Ida!" :) Well, we tried... hahaha

Singing

This week, Dakota started singing a lot more than usual. She knows the words to a lot of songs that I didn't know she knew! She can sing along with a lot of songs in her movies... They go something like this:


"EEEEEEEEEEEEEE o bum-bum-bum-ba waaaay" (In the Jungle)

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaa me-e" (You've got a Friend in Me)

"Bi Baaa Booooo" (Bippity boppity boo)

"Sing, sing gaaaaay-le" (Sing Sweet Night'n'gale)

"Yooooou knoooooow" (That's How You Know)


She can also name almost every character in all her movies. I was pretty impressed.

Kiss

Dakota has been very should I say *obsessed* with kissing lately. She points out whenever people/animals are kissing in a movie and she has her toys fake kiss each other all the time. Lately, when she decides we're worthy of a kiss, she'll say "kiss, kiss..." and then grab us by our hair and lay one on our lips! ;) We think its pretty funny but we better watch out when the boys start coming around!

Myyyne

Dakota's been walking around for the last week or so, saying Myyyne... not to be confused with 'mine'. It is pronounced differently. I couldn't figure out what she was saying. Today, she said, "Myyyne, Myyyne?" over and over... I didn't know what she was asking for. Then she said, "Myyyyne. Show." I still didn't know. Then she started chanting, "Sim-muh, Sim-muh.." OHHHH! SIM-BA! LION show? "Okaaay!!!" Now I get it... She wanted to watch Lion King. :)

Bite

Yesterday, Dakota walked up to me, put her partly eaten whole apple in my face and said, "Mamma's bite!" She let me take a bite.

Jesus

I have been praying and singing primary songs to Dakota since she was very small but only recently (around Christmas) tried to teach her about Jesus specifically. We have a Nativity video she loves to watch and I did not realize how much she had learned from it and how much she'd been paying attention to what I teach her. I collected random pictures of Christ that are just a couple inches big, that I put in her church bag that I thought would be good to entertain her during Sacrament meeting and remind her of why we are there. While at church today, she pulled them out for the first time and started going thru them. I asked her "Who is that?" on each one and she would reply "Jesus". Then she pulled one out that is a picture of Mary kneeling at Christ's feet after the resurrection. Again, I asked her, "Who is that?".... she pointed to the woman and said "Mary". Then she pointed to Christ and said, "Jesus" . I couldn't believe it! I had no idea she knew who Mary was. It is so amazing what these children's spirits know and can teach them at such a young age.

Hi Ho

Lately we have been watching Snow White... Today I caught Dakota singing... "Hi. Ho. Hi. Ho. GO-ooooh"

Translation= Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to work we go!

I thought it was cute :)