21 months and rockin’ her moccasins… small style
Lily turned 21 months old on sunday.
Seriously, I cannot believe she will be 2 years old in 3 months.
She is quite the busy and talkative little chick these days. (Will and I are in constant disbelief of all the words she says daily both in English and Portuguese)
Aside from all the words she knows, she is starting to put 4 and more words together in order to create sentences.
She will say things like:
“mommy. sit. book. reading” (mommy let’s read a book)
“piu piu. wings. fly” (birds fly with wings)
She has quite the Portenglish vocabulary going on. lol
She knows practically all the colors now and compares them to her favorite Sesame Street characters.
She will say:
“pink. purple. Abby”
“orange. Ernie”
“lellow. Bert”
“brown. Snuffy”
“Elmo.” (red)
“gueen. Oscas”
She continues to love books the most but also really enjoys her crayons, markers and coloring books.
We think she’s a keeper. 😉
As always linking to Morgan, the hostess of Small Style.
top- Old Navy. shorts- babyGap. sandals- Salt Water
top- Old Navy. shorts- babyGap. moccasins- Minnetonka
erica @ expatriababy
August 11, 2011 @ 11:49 am
Darling mocks! I love them!
So, speaking of multi-lingual babies: Stella is being brought up in a multi-lingual environment (English-speaking Muma, Swiss-German Papi, Japanese friends). Did you notice any delay in the onset of language milestones? Do you employ any strategies to encourage her to talk or otherwise engage in the non-dominant language?
Claudia
August 11, 2011 @ 1:40 pm
@Erica,
We did notice a bit of a delay but now she has excelled! She speaks a lot more than some of her only English speaking friends. You have inspired me to write a post about it for tomorrow because I find it so challenging since I am the only one speaking portuguese to Lily.
erica @ expatriababy
August 11, 2011 @ 1:45 pm
Cool! I’ll come back tomorrow to read what you’ve written. Obvs it’s a subject close to my heart. Maybe I’ll write a lil something about it as well & do a bit of research – I wonder how to best encourage Stella’s Swiss-German, since she doesn’t get much input from anyone other than her father, who works crazy long hours.
Mel
August 11, 2011 @ 12:56 pm
Wow.. I guess our girls are close in age… Azriel is Oct.29th.. when’s Lily? :o) She is clearly a genius too… I love that outfit, and the ‘slide show’ effect is beauties!
Mel
http://www.needleandnestdesign.blogspot.com
Claudia
August 11, 2011 @ 1:38 pm
@Mel,
Lily was born Nov 07 2009. They are close!! 🙂
Tiffany
August 11, 2011 @ 2:48 pm
They grow way to fast! She is a doll as always. How do you make sure to speak both languages to her? Does she confuse words? We are a bilingual home as well!!
Claudia
August 11, 2011 @ 2:52 pm
@Tiffany,
it’s hard but I speak only Portuguese and Will, my husband speaks English. i will be writing a post about it tomorrow, make sure to in! 😉
Baby Shopaholic
August 11, 2011 @ 3:07 pm
Love the moccasins! need to get P some.
april
August 11, 2011 @ 4:00 pm
dude she has STYLE!!! I love the sandals and mexican shirt….beautiful!
xoxo
Claudia
August 11, 2011 @ 7:20 pm
@April,
thank you. 🙂
yoly
August 11, 2011 @ 5:56 pm
Claudia…seriously you must stop this cuteness with Lily. I love all her little outfits and so happy to know that she loves to learn. When my Lily was your Lily’s age I would write the name of a word I wanted her to learn in an index card and tape it to the object…Like for example (Sofa) tape it and sound it out with her, tell her each letter of the word and also in Portuguese. Sure my house looked really messy, but my baby was learning and that’s all that mattered 🙂
Claudia
August 11, 2011 @ 7:19 pm
@Yoly,
that’s a great idea! we that with words. she knows that mommy starts with m and pai starts with p, nose with n… she is getting it. 🙂
Debbie
August 11, 2011 @ 7:08 pm
I feel like a bad mom … my girls only speak English! 🙁 Are they going to feel left behind because they only speak one language? What should I do? … sos!
Claudia
August 11, 2011 @ 7:17 pm
@Debbie,
you are anything BUT a bad mom!! Lily only speaks another language because i’m portuguese. i guess if you want them to learn another language, you can get some videos?
shanda clark
August 11, 2011 @ 8:58 pm
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Claudia
August 12, 2011 @ 11:35 am
@Shanda,
thank you for being a new follower! 🙂
Sara Sophia
August 12, 2011 @ 2:03 am
It doesn’t ever get better than Minnetonka 🙂
Adorable.
Claudia
August 12, 2011 @ 11:35 am
@Sara,
right? love Minnetonkas!
Morgan
August 12, 2011 @ 4:26 am
Oh Lily, you are such a doll! Finley is doing so many of the same things (minus the Portuguese) and their so close in age….I wish we lived closer, so they could have a playdate. How fun would that be? Oh, and I LOOOVE the moccs!
Claudia
August 12, 2011 @ 11:34 am
@Morgan,
that would be so much fun if our little ones (and us) could have a play date. 🙂
Mary McAnally
August 12, 2011 @ 1:39 pm
beautiful… love it…
Claudia
August 12, 2011 @ 6:00 pm
@Mary,
thank you. 🙂