Hey Car

In our new house we live right off a busy street and the only thing separating us from the traffic is our fence. But you can hear them zooming by when we are outside. I opened the door for Dakota to go out back to play and she heard a car zooming by... she leaned her head out the door and yelled, "Hey! Car!" Just made me laugh.

Oakley Laughs

A few weeks ago, we were on our way to a friend's wedding reception in Provo. We drove by some run down apartments and I said, "Those look pretty ghetto... although I guess if you're a Poor Poor college student..." and I was interrupted by a loud burst of giggling. I guess he though "poor poor" was funny.. I said it a few more times to him and each time he bursted out laughing. First time we've really got him giggling. We were all laughing at how cute it was.

Also in the car, on our way home from Boise for my mom's wedding, I sat in the back for a while to calm him down and started pretending like I was going eat him with 'yummy' noises. He also erupted with laughter and we were able to get a little on video from Doug's phone.

He is a smiley happy guys most the time and pretty easy these days to make him laugh. Good natured boy.

Talking, Talking

Dakota probably learns 5-10 new words each day and is growing smarter by the minute. She picks up on things we didn't even know of.

For instance, the other night, we were having rice with our dinner and there was soy sauce. She wanted some like daddy, so we put a little on her plate. She wanted to do it herself, and ended up with a large puddle of it on her plate. So the next time she reached for it, I took it off the table and put it back in the fridge. She squealed, "MY Sye Sauce!!" We didn't even know she knew that was what its called. We laughed pretty hard as she said it over and over.

We also tried to teach her the difference recently between "hot" and "spicy". Last night she ate a fried jalepeno and got upset and we asked her if it was too spicy... her reply, "Okay, PI-cey". Yes it was!

Lion King

Dakota LOVES Disney's The Lion King. Its her latest favorite and we watch it frequently. I didn't know she knew it so well but we have the soundtrack and were listening to it in the car. The underscore to the part where Simba is waiting for his dad and the stampede comes was on, and Dakota shouts out, "OH NO! SIMBA!!!" I was pretty surprised that she could make that connection just from listening to the music. Also, during Hakuna Matata when Simba goes from a cub to a grown lion, at the exact right time, she exclaimed, "BIG Simba!"

She also sings along with most of the songs. Our favorite...

"O JUST. can't WAIIIT! be KI-ING!"