Oh Baby....Os?

Things will be changing around here, and we can't wait!

I'm due at the beginning of December, so around 14 weeks or so now.  I'm over the morning sickness, but boy was that a doozy with the smells of Kathmandu.  My 8:00 (ok, sometimes 7:30) bedtime is a sign of my fatigue, but I'm no longer working from the couch in my office so that says something.  We have been going to the western clinic for prenatal care but plan to have the baby in Thailand.  We had an ultrasound at the last appointment, saw baby moving around and all looked good.  We'll have a few appointments while we're in the states too, hopefully finding out the sex!

In other news, we come home in 5 days!  We're very excited to see everyone!

18 months

Where did our baby go????

Likes:
Dancing
Doing monkey, crab, mouse and giraffe walks she learned in singing class
Daddy
Being outside
Swimming
Wearing a hat and sunglasses (after months and months of fighting her to wear a hat!)
Reading
Identifying to owner of items (ex points or picks up Jeremiah's phone "daddy, daddy, daddy")
Finding bugs
Climbing

Dislikes:
Sleeves covering her hands or pants covering her feet
When Jeremiah and I touch

12 teeth with 1 more poking through

Words:
Daddy/Dada
Mommy/Mama
Jyoti (her nanny)
Didi (Nepali address for an older female "older sister")
Dai (Nepali address for an older male "older brother")
Up (uppa)
Please (pease)
No (in English and Nepali - nai)
Sit (in Nepali - busa)
Ria (always Ria Ria)
Peter (Peta)
Nana
Come (in Nepali - ow)
Cat (meow)
More
All done (awl da)
Big (bi)
Turtle
Ball
Book
Backpack (ba pak)
Shoes/socks/sleep all "sssss"
Night night (nigh nigh)
Pee pee
Bug (bee)
Bye bye
Hello
Hi

Signs:
Water
Giraffe
Please
Sorry
Felix (her friend)
Cat
Aunt
Uncle
More
Cold
Big
Come
Where
Hurt
Frog
Swimming
Diaper
Bug
Chair
All done
Monkey

Playground

School has a preschool playground that we often visit on the weekends.  Tegan is getting braver and braver and trying out the equipment after being satisfied with just the sand and buckets for awhile.  And boy does it take every fiber of my being to not hold her every step of the way through that play structure!

Photo dump

Too much cuteness has happened and not enough time to blog it all, so here are some of my favorites lately:

Eating flour

Helping make cookies

Skyping

Wait for me dad!

Seriously contemplating climbing the play structure

Her own little couch on the floor

Signing "thank you" (at Namo Buddha)

Yay for food!

Flower girl

16 months

Likes:
Climbing
Her doll, giraffe, cat and bunny
Making her dolls and animals sign words and pretending to feed them
Peek-a-boo
Going for walks
Pancakes
Dancing
Birds
Talking - both real words and babble
Computers
Her friend Felix, who we came up with a sign for and realized how often she thinks of him
Balls
Throwing garbage away
Pretending to do something (like share food or give you a kiss) and then turn and run away laughing


Dislikes:
Diaper changes
Staying inside too long

Walking

Tegan loves to go outside ("ow, ow" which also somewhat confusingly means "come, come" in Nepali) and walk holding 1 or 2 people's hands, depending on what is available.

15 months

Likes:

Saying "uh-oh"

Crossing her feet when sitting

Sitting in laps

"S" and vowel words (shoes, socks, sleep, arm, owl, out, up)

Showing off her tummy

Animals

Food being on the table for her to pick up, not being fed to her

Baths and playing with water

Being outside

Other kids - doesn't really matter the age

Her backpack - wearing it and saying "backpack"

Jumping (her heels leave the ground but toes stay firmly planted, it's very cute)

Looking at herself in the mirror

Playing hide and seek and peek-a-boo around the furniture

Holding a finger of 2 people while she walks; today she had mine and grabbed a lady who was selling stuff at the market

Dislikes:

Getting teeth (4 new ones either cut through or are just about to including 2 molars!)

Getting her hands too dirty

Being held on walks

Clips or headbands in her hair