BIG GIRL - She wants to do everything like mom and dad. She is fascinated with brushing teeth so while mom and dad brush their teeth, she gets her toothbrush and does hers. She even moves the brush back and forth and gets them pretty clean in my opinion. Who knows, she may not get cavities like her mom. She also thinks that she can climb the stairs on her two feet. I was upstairs in the bathroom and the next thing I know, she is at the top of the stairs huffing and puffing because she has climbed up all the stairs by pulling herself up on the banister instead of crawling. She must be thinking,"if mom and dad can do it, so can I." Next is the telephone. Everything is a phone and she'll prop it up on her shoulder and have a full on conversation with the "person" on the other end including Hi, Bye, and courtesy laughing in the middle. Funny girl.
UNDERSTANDING US - Although she can't talk to us, she can understand a lot of what we tell her. She now knows what her coat is. We'll ask her to go get her coat and she'll get really excited. She jumps up and runs to the closet and then brings the coat back to us. She does the same thing with her Binkie. She knows there's always one in the diaper bag so when we tell her to go find her Binkie, that's the first place she goes. She also knows about sitting down. She'll try to stand up in the tub and when we tell her to sit down, she does. The same goes for the highchair.
WHAT IS SHE THINKING ABOUT - Sometimes we wonder what is going on inside her head. Why she likes one type of food one day, and the next day, can't stand it. She loves to rifle through the recycling and when she finds the empty milk cartons, will carry them around the house for a long time.
She is still fascinated with car seats and buckles. She will spend twenty minutes sitting in the garage trying to do up her car seat buckles. The same goes for the highchair. She also likes to plug the charge cord into the laptop and push buttons to see what happens. I think she is mechanically inclined with the way she tries to put stuff together. We've now bought her some big cardboard blocks and some puzzles to help expand her building skills.
She also loves to drape things around her neck. She'll "help" me fold the laundry by draping shirts, underwear, you name it around her neck. She also likes to drape any kind of cords there as well. (We are very careful and watchfull so she won't choke.)
SOUNDS - She isn't talking much but she knows so many sounds. She loves the old macdonald song and can somewhat say ee-i-ee-i-o. She can say the animal sounds of a lion, monkey, dog, cat, cow, and sometimes duck. She can say boo, uh-oh, bye bye, grampa (bampa), and thank you. We're working on love you and please but she's stubborn about those. We ask her daily to make these sounds and show her off to friends and families by making her repeat it to them. We just think she's too cute.
HUMOR - She is sooo funny to us and is easily entertained (entertaining us as well). She even laughs at herself sometimes. She loves baby einsteins with a passion. Our friend calls it baby crack because of the emotions it brings out in our children. She can't even contain her excitement the minute the dvd goes into the player. She gets to watch it while I'm in the shower and when she's screaming and out of control, it's one of the only things that makes her happy instantly. She also knows patty cake now and when it's time to "toss" it in the oven, she throws her hands in the air and shouts. It's her favorite part.
She has been able to go backwards down the stairs for awhile now but lately she's started to back up at a further distance from the stairs. She'll turn around and start backing up five feet from the staircase instead of right at it. She will also back up to sit in her Dora chair and for some reason, will misjudge where the chair is located. She misses the chair everytime.
One last thing she does when she's trying to fall asleep, is rub the tag of her bumper across her upper lip. She's been fascinated with tags since she was born but now she uses them to sleep. I bought a pretty expensive tag pillow for her for christmas. It has fun tags sewn in all around the edges of it but she is just too attached to the one on the bumper.
Scott and I are in wonder everyday at the little girl she is becoming. We just love her fun personality and know what a gift she is to us.
