Dinoroar

Well, here’s the dinosaur project I mentioned in my last craft related post. I combined the car caddy tutorial with the dino playmat found here. This was just a little more labor intensive than the car one, but still a fairly quick and easy project. The main difficulty was keeping Adam away from it when I was working on it. He really likes the dinosaurs on the back and the numbers on the front. I definitely need to make him one too.

I’m really not sure how it’s going to hold up since the felt pieces cross the fold line. Hopefully it’s not an issue, you can sort of see the creases though already. The velcro and belting went on much easier this time. Especially once I realized the easiest way to keep the belting from fraying on the end was to burn it with a lighter.

Fun fabric on the back, no? It’s been in my stash forever and I have no idea where it came from. Adam loves it though, he carried around a piece of it for a while earlier and kept showing me the dinos and roaring at them. Hopefully the birthday girl (another big dino fan) likes it too.

I’m not touching you

Yesterday I was sitting down and Adam was sort of sitting/leaning on my stomach. The baby was going nuts – kicking like crazy. I told Dave, thinking it was a cute story.  His response: “Great, the baby’s not even born yet and the kids are already fighting”.

Ha ha.

I prefer to think that Ducky was just saying hello to his (or her) big brother.

The things you say

At Adam’s checkup earlier this week the doctor asked me how many words he says. I honestly had no idea, but guessed “at least fifteen”. When I got home I started a list. This is what I’ve come up with so far:

  1. Mama
  2. Mom Mom (Grandma)
  3. Dah Dee (Daddy)
  4. Hat
  5. Shoos (Shoes)
  6. Bye Bye
  7. PLEEEE (Please)
  8. Wah wah (Water)
  9. Stay CEE (Stacy)
  10. Rob
  11. Papa
  12. Grandpa (close to how he says “Papa” but different)
  13. Uh Oh
  14. Oh No
  15. Nigh Nigh (Night Night)
  16. Hi
  17. DINE SAUR(dinosaur – always said in a growling voice)
  18. Chee! (Cheese)
  19. Na nas (Bananas – this does not refer to the fruit, but rather “going bananas”)
  20. I-no-no (I don’t know – said as one big word and normally accompanied by him putting his hands palms up and shrugging)
  21. George
  22. Eyes
  23. Choo choo
  24. Ba ba (Belly/button – they are interchangeable to him)
  25. Ah-num (Adam)
  26. No no no
  27. Bah (Ball)
  28. Bah Bee (Baby)
  29. Dat da (Doggy – this was his first word)
  30. Ah no (Thank you – not sure how this translates, but it’s his version)

A little more than 15 – and I am sure I’m missing a couple.