No More Excuses

I stopped exercising very soon after I got pregnant with Chloe.  Randy and I even cancelled our gym membership shortly after Chloe was born.  Our excuse?  Her name starts with C and she's almost 20 months old.  She takes up all of our time so we can't go to the gym anymore.  It's time for Randy and I to stop making excuses and start doing something about our physical health.

Last week Randy bought a weight set and bench.  Today we bought a barely-used treadmill from a family friend.  With our home gym in place, we can now exercise at home. The excuse of not having time to go to the gym is no longer valid.  The plan is for us to hit this home gym each night after Chloe goes to bed.  For the past week Randy has been active on the weight bench.  Tonight I started running on the treadmill.  I feel really good after 36 minutes of combined running and incline walking.  Lets hope that we can keep up this healthy routine.

Good Baby

Chloe was a very good baby this entire weekend.  She ate when she was supposed to eat.  She slept when she was supposed to sleep.  She played nicely.  She listened to everything (almost) we said.  She said "please" and "thank you" without prompting.  She was happy.  She was silly.  Every second with her was enjoyable.  I hope this continues forever and ever and ever.  But of course we all know that would be too good to be true.  She's a kid, and like all other kids she will act up every now and then.  I'll take the good side of her whenever I can and I'll savor every moment.

@ Deer Hollow Farm

Words Chloe Can Say

Going back to the 18-month development questionnaire we answered during Chloe's 18-month check up, when I answered "yes" to the question "Can she speak 8-40 words?", I really didn't know the exact number of words Chloe can speak.  I never took a tally.  That question stirred my curiosity so I went ahead and made a list of words Chloe can say.  I have the list below.

The parentheses are the way she says the words.  I probably missed a word here and there.  As you can see, her vocabulary is 100+ words.  And it's still growing since she picks up new words almost every day.

1. Airplane (airpane) 
2. All done 
3. Apple 
4. Auntie (Yee Yee, Cantonese 姨姨) 
5. Baby 
6. Backpack (bokpok) 
7. Ball 
8. Balloon (moom) 
9. Banana (nana) 
10. Bath (bak bak - as in Cantonese 洗白白) 
11. Bear 
12. Beep beep (when driving her car) 
13. Bib 
14. Bird 
15. Book 
16. Bread (bao bao - Cantonese 包包) 
17. Brother (gor gor - Cantonese 哥哥) 
18. Bubble 
19. Bye bye 
20. Car 
21. Cheese (deese)
22. Chicken (gai gai - Cantonese 鸡鸡) 
23. Clean up (neen nup) 
24. Copper (bopper) 
25. Corn (gorn) 
26. Crying (Nying) 
27. Daddy 
28. Doggie (Wo wo) 
29. Duck
30. Eat (mum mum - Cantonese) 
31. Elephant (elfant) 
32. Eyes 
33. Face (mien mien - Cantonese 面面) 
34. Feet (guek guek - Cantonese 脚脚) 
35. Fish (yue yue - Cantonese 鱼鱼) 
36. Flower (fower) 
37. Full (bao bao - Cantonese 饱饱 ) 
38. Giraffe (Uh-raf) 
39. Give (bay - Cantonese 俾) 
40. Grandma (Ma Ma - Cantonese 嫲嫲) 
41. Grandma (Por Por - Cantonese 婆婆) 
42. Grandpa (Gung Gung - Cantonese 公公) 
43. Grandpa (Yeh Yeh - Cantonese 爷爷) 
44. Hand (han) 
45. Hat (mo mo - Cantonese 帽帽) 
46. Hello (ah-low)
47. Help 
48. Hi 
49. Home 
50. Horse (ma ma - Cantonese 马马) 
51. Hug 
52. Jacket 
53. Jook jook 
54. Kiss 
55. Let's Go (let go)
56. Lie down (fun dai, Cantonese 瞓低) 
57. Light (dung dung, Cantonese 灯灯) 
58. Lyon (Nyon) 
59. Milk  
60. Milk (nai nai - Cantonese 奶奶)
61. Mini (as in Minnie Mouse)
62. Mommy
63. Monkey 
64. More 
65. Night night 
66. No 
67. No more 
68. Nose (bay bay - Cantonese 鼻鼻) 
69. Okay (oday) 
70. Open (Omeem) 
71. Pig 
72. Please (Peez) 
73. Po Po (Cantonese 抱抱) 
74. Poo poo (boo boo)
75. Pop (bop) 
76. Pound (as in fist pound, but she says mound) 
77. Rabbit (wabbit)
78. Rusty (Uddy)
79. Scrub (gub or cub)
80. See you (as in I see you) 
81. Sheep (beep) 
82. Shoes (dues) 
83. Sit (tor tor, as in Cantonese 坐低)
84. Sister (deh deh, as in Cantonese 姐姐)
85. Spoon (moom)
86. Socks (mut mut - Cantonese 袜袜)
87. Star
88. Sun
89. Teapot (beebot)
90. Teeth (nga nga - Cantonese 牙牙)
91. Thank Q (thank you)
92. Tired
93. Tummy
94. Turtle (Turto)
95. TV
96. Uh oh
97. Uncle
98. Uncle (Kau Foo - Cantonese 舅父)
99. Wash (as in wash hands)
100. Water
101. Whale
102. What's That (what dat)
103. Where are you?  (vier you)
104. Words (dee dee, as in Cantonese 字字)
105. Yay
106. Yeah
107. Yogurt
108. Yummy
109. Zebra (beba)