Our Little Love Bugs!

Here is a snapshot of our littlest Love Bugs!

These photos were taken July 6, 2013. 

A Day of Words!

Amaris has been home from China 14 months. She came home at the end of June 2012.

I decided to follow her and her sister Gabriella around with a notepad of paper and document some of those cute words and phrases I hear each day. She does speak in sentences, and we do encourage her to repeat things the correct way... but, if I could bottle some of these words up, I would. 

In no particular order... these are some of the "cute" things she is saying right now... 

• "No, Zes!" (she doesn't want me to say No to her, she wants me to say Yes!... and she may repeat this 6-8 times)

• "Fow-fer!!!" (I want a giant "flower" on my head, not a bow!)

• "Nebermind" or "Nemermind" ("Nevermind"... one of my favorite Amarisms')

• "Saw-wee!" ("Sorry")

• Me swim soup! (This is my swim suit)

• Whatsa more is? (She was looking for "5 hidden 'w' letters" in her homework and couldn't find the last one)

• No find it! (She couldn't find the last hidden 'w')

• No I see it! (I don't see the hidden 'w')

• Mommy, I see it! Me see it! (I see the hidden 'w')

• This it is! (She found the last hidden 'w')

• There it is! I too made it! (She sees our church and squeals in delight that we made it.)

• "Brie, watch!" ("Gabriella, watch me!")

• "Baba, what IS that?" (doesn't matter what he is doing... she just wants to know about everything!)

• "Ut-oh!" 

• "Me no like it!" or "No me like it!" ("I don't like it!"... she is generally referring to her smoothie in the morning)

• "OKAY MOM!" (this is used for LOTS of things... and both words are generally emphasized!)

• "Otto-cado" (Look at the "helicopter" in the air)

• "Me ready to go" (I am ready to go!)

• "jwah-meez" (jammies/pajamas)

• Me good helper! (I'm a good helper! She generally says this after carrying a plate to the counter, getting something for someone, or doing something nice)

• "Mama, me true loves kiss!" (Mama is my true loves kiss, Baba is your true loves kiss Brie; this phrase comes from one of our favorite movies: Enchanted)

• "Oh yeah!" (Like in, "Amaris... what are you supposed to be doing right now?"... she is EASILY distracted). 

• Me miss my sister! (I miss my sister Gabriella!)

• Me do that? (Can I do that?)

• I did it!