My GD (2 yrs and 2 mo) loves a series on YouTube TV called Farmees. It’s nursery rhymes and kids songs. Her paternal grandmother is visiting for a few months and is also babysitting and she’s got grandD watching a Russian cartoon called Masha and the Bear. We hope to visit GD(they live 700 miles from us) in April.
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GD started to talk at 22 months. D1 was going to hire a speech therapist, but GD just started to say some fairly complex sentences since a month ago. Now she is 2 years and 2 month old with good ability to communicate, she is a very pleasant, reasonable kid to be around. I can have a fairly good conversation with her now.
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My GD is not even one month old yet but I would be interested to buy older versions of Disney classic. I don’t like new interpretations but don’t know if older versions are available in modern formats
My GD is also 2 years & 2 months. She talks up a storm, but we can’t always understand what she’s saying. She got tubes a couple weeks ago, and her speech is much clearer now. She told D, “GD ears better,” so I guess she can tell the difference. She called SIL Daddy Habibi the other day, which melted his heart (habibi is a term of endearment like my dear). Grandkids are just so much fun!!!
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The Euro deli where we regularly shop always seemed to have one of those Masha cartoons playing on TV… the characters look adorable. I was browsing Tonies the other day and saw that there is a Masha and the Bear Tonie character available - the stories and the songs are in English - maybe a cute gift if your GD is into Tonie stories. 
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One of my kids was/is a big Disney fan so knew every word to every movie. She also really liked ‘real’ shows (not animated) and her favorites were Wizard of Oz (obviously, this is my kid who loves loves loves scary movies), Peter Pan with Mary Martin, and Cinderella with Leslie Ann Warren (and later version with Brandi, Whitney Houston). Believe it or not, some of my favorite animated tapes they had were Barbie because they were ballets, like Barbie in Swan Lake or Barbie in the Nutcracker. Real music.
My daughter has a great ear for music and one day in the car, listening to NPR, she picked up that it was Swan Lake. Another time watching Meet Me in St. Louis, she said “Hey, why is Dorothy singing in this movie!?” She believed Judy Garland was Dorothy and not a character in a movie.
The other kid liked Barney sing-a-longs. Painful. But she could sing the ABCs in French and Hebrew.
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Everyone here for a beautiful spring day and some wiffle ball and bike/trike riding. Nothing makes me happier than these 4 little people and their parents.
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Interesting!
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Hey! I haven’t been on CC for a long time, but I’m back today! Happy to read about all the new grandkids and happy to share in the joy of all these growing families.
My grandson is now three. He loves Disney movies and “The Nutcracker.” During this past Christmas season, he and I danced the fight between the Nutcracker and the Mouse King more times than I’d like to remember.
H and I moved over 700 miles after retirement to be closer to D and her family. I’m thrilled to be able to see GS so often; we watch him every Monday and Tuesday, and then we all get together at least once during the weekend for family dinner. Sure beats seeing them once every six weeks!
oh, and one more thing: D is pregnant again! This baby is due on Halloween. It’s early still, so anything could happen…we just have our fingers crossed for a smooth, problem-free pregnancy.
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Hi @scout59 - I noticed I had not seen you post in quite some time and missed you. Glad you are back.
We watch GD (8 months) on Mondays and usually see D and family once on the weekend for dinner, so very similar.
Congrats and 
on the new baby news!
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Two year old GD has come very far in terms of talking in the past month. She’s speaking in sentences, and she does it in Arabic when she’s with her other grandparents. However, it’s still difficult at times to understand what she’s saying. Most times it’s easy to read her facial expressions to be able to respond appropriately. Not always, though. This afternoon she was really trying to tell H & me something, and she was so earnest. We tried to understand, but couldn’t. She started saying, “I can’t do it” over and over. She sat on the floor, looking so pitiful and repeating, “I can’t do it.” It broke our hearts. Of course, she was off & running a little later. It’s tough watching her get so frustrated, but it’s part of life.
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Question to grandparents. I ordered an item from a baby registry for a coworker. She kept the home address private, so I had the item ship to my house hoping to wrap it nicely and bring to work. Just got an email that Nordstrom canceled the order as the item is no longer in stock! Ugh.The registry apparently sent a message to the expecting parents that a gift is coming as soon as I checked that it was ordered. What an awkward situation. I’m thinking about getting her a gift card to Nordstrom in the amount of the item’s cost and including a card with congrats and a small apology. What would you do?
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I think your idea is a good one.
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Last time I saw GD, she asked me to do something for her and then said, “let’s get going.” It sounded like she was rushing me, but then I heard her parents always said, “let’s get going” whenever they asked her to do something - “we are going out, let’s get going.” “Please clean up your toys, let’s get going.”
She also said to me, “here you go” every time she gave me something. That’s what her parents also said often.
I told her parents be careful what they said in front of her.
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Thanks! 
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Excellent idea, @BunsenBurner. Maybe the item will be in stock in the future.
Baby gifts are my very favorite gifts to buy. Instead of purchasing a card these days, I keep a supply of board books at home to use in place of the card. My current favorite is Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
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My GS, 2, also says “here you go” whenever he hands someone something.
He also has been taught turn-taking, so whenever he wants me to do something, he’ll say “Grandma’s turn” over whatever it is, even though we weren’t “taking turns.”
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My GD is only good at saying, “my turn.”
What’s interesting is I saw her role playing with 2 stuff animals, one bunny and one monkey. She pretended to be the monkey to say, “it’s my turn.” She said back to the monkey, “no, it’s bunny’s turn. You wait.” Then she took bunny off the horse and put the monkey on it.
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I have been invited to baby showers where board books are requested in lieu of cards. As my husband has pointed out the books don’t cost much more than cards these days and they are read over and over again.
GD is 9 months old now - sitting up well and trying to crawl. She likes to sit in the bouncy seat and “dance”. She recently started waving and if you say “hi” to her she will usually answer “ha”. It seems as if she is suddenly doing so much more. Oh and she is in a 'Mimi" phase. When she sees me she breaks into a grin and holds her arms out to me. 
I’m not complaining!
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