Monday, February 16, 2009

Language Update...

New words and signs in purple at the end of the lists. Oh, and I added a new section - Yoga Kai Does!:

Words Kai Speaks (roughly in order)

  • Dada
  • Mama
  • Nurse
  • Truck
  • Up
  • Hat
  • Banana
  • That
  • Bees
  • Book
  • Back
  • Bye (actually, "Buh-Bye")
  • Ball
  • Out
  • Bath
  • Baby
  • Toast
  • This
  • Bob
  • David
  • Lampa (Sanskrit for "jump")
  • Apple (Cracks me up, because he always says, "bapple")
  • Bread
  • Monkey (monkey noises, that is)
  • Puppy
  • Belly Button
  • Bear
  • Backward (he hears it a lot "backward, go down backward, Kai!")
  • Help
  • Meow (when he sees a cat)
  • Bird
  • Brush
  • Butterfly
  • Diaper
  • Blueberry
  • Down Dog (Dow-Dah!)
  • Broom
  • Hoop
  • Block
  • Poop

Words Kai Signs

  • Nurse/Milk
  • All Done
  • Up
  • Down
  • Again
  • More
  • Yay! (okay, this is just clapping, but I think it counts)
  • Bye
  • Me
  • Rainbow (appears in his bedtime book)
  • Water
  • Door (Kai invented this one himself - he points to the door and makes a motion like he's twisting the doorknob)
  • Eat/Food
  • Diaper
  • Tickle
  • Sleep
  • Apple
  • Help (just learned today!)
  • Puppy
  • Bird
  • Brush/Comb
  • Butterfly
  • Pain
  • Banana

Yoga Kai Does
  • Down Dog
  • So Big (reaches arms up, then touches ground)
  • Star (Holds arms out to and stands wide, rocking back and forth to "Twinkle, Twinkle")
  • Ba La La (Alternating hand drumming)
  • Half Moon (Tot version - raises one arm up over head when he hears, "Up, up, and away, half moon)
  • Twistee (twists side to side when we sing "Twistee")
  • The beginning and end of Baby Planet
  • Kicky Cobra
  • Butterfly
  • Something I don't teach in classes, but he sees me do at home myself - he actually does the first few asanas of a sun salutation, with hands in prayer/Namaste position...so cute!

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Car Seat PSA

Think being a year old and 20 lbs. makes it safe for your child to forward face in a car seat? This can be a deadly misconception. If you're a parent and this comes as news to you, please, please watch this video, and read more over at my other blog.