Well it has been almost a year! I am sorry, but I am not even sure people even look at this, but oh well. I am an avid journal keeper for both me and I have a Stella journal too where I keep track of her growth and new things she learns so thus the reason I dont blog very much.
Well to get you up to speed the past year, Stella broke her leg last fall by thinking she could walk down the stairs at 10 months old and rolled down the stairs. She just "fractured her tibia" in her right leg, but it was more like a dent in her bone. She was suppose to have her cast on for 4 weeks but at 3 weeks she pulled her cast off in the store with my mother in law. She had a huge blister on her heel and so she wanted to take it off. We went back to the orthopedic Dr and he said her leg was good to go. She pulled it off right in time for her 1st birthday party on December 3rd. My parents flew out for it and we had a big candy party. It was a blast and she got so spoiled.
I started a new job last September working with inmates in Salt Lake growing in the greenhouse and a big garden in the summer. I love it and love teaching those guys to hopefully help them when they get out.
Well the main reason why I wanted to blog is because I just had to share with you how much I absolutely love and swear by the kid show Signing Time.
Well to get you up to speed the past year, Stella broke her leg last fall by thinking she could walk down the stairs at 10 months old and rolled down the stairs. She just "fractured her tibia" in her right leg, but it was more like a dent in her bone. She was suppose to have her cast on for 4 weeks but at 3 weeks she pulled her cast off in the store with my mother in law. She had a huge blister on her heel and so she wanted to take it off. We went back to the orthopedic Dr and he said her leg was good to go. She pulled it off right in time for her 1st birthday party on December 3rd. My parents flew out for it and we had a big candy party. It was a blast and she got so spoiled.
I started a new job last September working with inmates in Salt Lake growing in the greenhouse and a big garden in the summer. I love it and love teaching those guys to hopefully help them when they get out.
Well the main reason why I wanted to blog is because I just had to share with you how much I absolutely love and swear by the kid show Signing Time.
I have learned ASL over the years from having deaf aunts as well as taking some courses in college. I have always wanted to teach my kids sign language and I have loved letting Stella watch it. It has been so fun for just the past 3 weeks to watch it click in her head and she now copies, signs, and she knows what she actually is signing. I ask her "whats the sign for milk, please, thank you, more, cookie, food, drink, signing time" and she will sign what I ask. She has been watching it pretty much since birth, but it has been so fun to watch her actually learn and use it even before she can talk. Stella is only 14 months and is learning so much from these DVD's. I think it is so fun for them to watch and for Drew and I to be able to communicate with her. She is such a character and LOVES her signing time and throws temper tantrums when I dont put it on when she asks for it. I just thought I would share with you, hopefully my friends that have little kids and babies, the success that I have had with these DVD's.
Well I will leave you with the latest family picture we had done back in November.
Well I will leave you with the latest family picture we had done back in November.
Much love,
The Warwoods
The Warwoods
