On Tuesday evening, after all of Mio and Dan’s hard work making their snowman, we went out for a little family froyo date before dinner. 🙂
Family Froyo Date
Mio
Mio’s First Snowman
Following this winter’s first snowfall on Sunday, we got about five more inches of snow on Tuesday morning! Dan worked a partial day from home, and in the afternoon, we got to have some fun playing out in the snow in the backyard. (Mio’s preschool was cancelled both Monday and Tuesday, so she got to stay home too.)
“Fox, Mio… FOX!”
We spotted a fox frolicking around in our backyard from the window this morning, and we tried to show Mio. Much to our chagrin, whenever Mio says the word “fox,” it comes out sounding more like a four-letter word that also starts with “f”… Oh dear.
She also often has the same problem with the word “frog”… hopefully she’ll start pronouncing them a little more accurately soon! We can’t help but cringe when she excitedly yells “fox” or “frog” in the middle of the grocery store or in a restaurant… (It has happened, and it has drawn stares.)
First Snowfall
It snowed for the first time this winter season on Sunday! Mio got to go outside and play in the snow for a little bit with Daddy…
“Bacon!”
Mio is definitely hitting the “verbal explosion” stage these days, and is picking up and repeating several new words every week! As is expected, though, she’ll sometimes mispronounce words or confuse them with other words she already knows. She recently learned the word “naked,” but when the word comes out of her mouth, it sounds more like “bacon.”
Last night after her bath, she ran around sans clothing, pointing at herself and shouting “BACON!!!”
Dan and I couldn’t help but double over in laughter! My mother likes to call Mio a piglet (because of her chubbiness), so I suppose it may not be far from the truth… 😛