It really is cool to watch how much she is growing and learning every day. Since it is summer time (hell, yeah!) I am soaking up every second and making sure that I take a second every day to appreciate this time I get to spend with her. She has had a vocabulary explosion and is a complete parrot. She is also learning how to do stuff and complete actions with and without us telling her to do so. These are just a few things that I want to remember of this time in her little life.
*She can say any animal sound you give her. When she sees animals in TV or in real life, she is very emphatic with her animal sound that goes with it.
*Thanks to Baby Wise, she loves to go to sleep (most of the time). When you can tell she is getting tired (aka when she starts fussing a lot and getting mean) you can say, 'Let's go night night' and she'll say 'night night' and head straight to her room. Before bed at night when we have the whole routine, she can say night night (very Southern bell-ish) and love you (love eww). Talking about a great way to end a day!
*The girl loves her a cheese stick. Now when you give her one she'll say, 'Aahh, cccchhhheeeessseee' and get really excited. She saw one in the drawer in the refrigerator once, so now every time I open the fridge she yells, 'cccchhhhheeeessseeee!' She also LOVES mac and cheese and just calls it cheese.
*She loves a bath, but went through a phase of being a little bit skittish about getting water dumped on her head. I figured out that as long as I told her what was going on, she does better. So I usually wash her hair first to give her some bubbles, which she will start to ask for if I don't have any working in the first few minutes of the bath, and then I was her body. Tonight I washed her hair and then I was going to let her play and she looked at me and said 'toes' and then held her foot up. She knows after we wash her hair I soap up the fish sponge and we work from her head down to her toes. She'll start holding her feet out of the water as soon as I start working on her arms.
*The girl still loves some ice. Any time she sees ice or hears the ice machine from the fridge working she starts saying 'Ice, ice, ice, ice, ice, ice,' like a mad woman.
*We have reached the frustration time in her development where her mental need for indepence far out weighs her physical and verbal abilities. She has started showing her anger with yelling, hitting, and kicking. It helps to understand why she is doing this, but it doesn't make it any easier. Where is our sweet baby? Our sweet baby is growing up and it's our job to let her know that it is ok to be mad, but that she can't yell or hurt anyone else because of it.
*One of the very few parts of the above statements that is pretty cute is that she can now say sorry. I don't know where she got it from, but she says 'sah-wee' with her head cocked to one side. Pretty dag-on precious. Once she figured out when to use it, she'll now say anytime that someone has knocked her down or made her upset, kind of like saying they need to be sorry!
*The girl is also obsessed with shoes. Any time she sees her 'ssshhhoooooeeeesss' (said with some seriously pursed up lips), she wants them on. She'll grab them and get us to put them on her. Any time I go into her closet, she'll say 'sssshhhooooeeeessss'. Any time she sees anyone elses shoes she'll bring them to that person and get them to put them on.
*She is getting good at completing tasks. For instance, every time that Jason gets ready to go, she'll go and grab his sunglasses off of the table at the front door. If he doesn't need them or isn't ready to go anywhere, you can tell her to go put them back and she will.
* She loves to brush her teeth. Any time you say anything about brushing teeth or if she sees us doing it, she'll say 'Ahh!' and try to get up there with us.
*She has started spinning. I'm not sure where she learned it, but she'll start spinning and then hold her arms out like she is a little dancer.
*She LOVES LOVES LOVES the Bubble Guppies. Luckily it is a super cute show with some really good music, but all day she will point to the TV and just yell out, 'Bubble!' As soon as it comes on she gets the biggest smile on her face and starts grooving with them. We have to limit her Bubble time every day because she would already watch it over and over. Thank goodness for DVR!
*She is doing so well with talking and using words to help get her point across. One thing I cannot and will not handle is a fussy, whiny kid (haha, yeah good luck to me). So even now when she starts to fuss we tell her that she needs to tell us what she wants. Then she can say pretty much everything she needs - eat, hungry, pease (she has been signing this for a while, but has just started saying it which is really nice), drink, milk, more, help, ice, etc.
*She has about 16 teeth in her head. She's working on the 15th and 16th (her upper canines), but she can tackle anything food wise we give her. It is crazy to see her smile or laugh and see all those teeth! It wasn't too long ago that she had those two little nuggets and that was it!
*Changing her diaper has kind of become the same concept as the bath - as long as you tell her what is going on, she's happy as a clam. Through the use of the play-by-play, you can now tell her to put her legs up and she'll swing them up and hold onto them and say 'legs'. She can also say 'tuta' (stolen from Leslie and Will) and reach down and pat it. I guess that is the same as little boys (aka all males) reaching down there and just playing with their twig and berries just to make sure they are there.
*She has a snack when she wakes up from her afternoon nap (we are beginning the work of dropping that morning nap and getting her down to one a day) and as soon as we ask her if she wants a snack she yells out 'Nack!'
*She still loves to read books and it is crazy what all she knows now. You can ask her to find stuff on a page and you can see her eyes moving all over the page and then she'll point out what you asked.
*When the dogs start barking she'll say, 'Hush!' I wonder where she got that from?!
I'm pretty sure she is doing a thousand other things that we think is awesome and intelligent and precious, but this will do for now! We have one smart, precious, sassy little girl!
*She can say any animal sound you give her. When she sees animals in TV or in real life, she is very emphatic with her animal sound that goes with it.
*She is getting good with names. She loves looking at pictures and naming the people in them. Her favorites are Anna (which sound more like a really loud German Ana), Jack Jack, and Leslie (Wesie) since we see them the most often. She also knows the grandparents' names and walks around practicing. Any time she sees a gray-headed man, she'll say Papa really loud.*Thanks to Baby Wise, she loves to go to sleep (most of the time). When you can tell she is getting tired (aka when she starts fussing a lot and getting mean) you can say, 'Let's go night night' and she'll say 'night night' and head straight to her room. Before bed at night when we have the whole routine, she can say night night (very Southern bell-ish) and love you (love eww). Talking about a great way to end a day!
*The girl loves her a cheese stick. Now when you give her one she'll say, 'Aahh, cccchhhheeeessseee' and get really excited. She saw one in the drawer in the refrigerator once, so now every time I open the fridge she yells, 'cccchhhhheeeessseeee!' She also LOVES mac and cheese and just calls it cheese.
*She loves a bath, but went through a phase of being a little bit skittish about getting water dumped on her head. I figured out that as long as I told her what was going on, she does better. So I usually wash her hair first to give her some bubbles, which she will start to ask for if I don't have any working in the first few minutes of the bath, and then I was her body. Tonight I washed her hair and then I was going to let her play and she looked at me and said 'toes' and then held her foot up. She knows after we wash her hair I soap up the fish sponge and we work from her head down to her toes. She'll start holding her feet out of the water as soon as I start working on her arms.
*The girl still loves some ice. Any time she sees ice or hears the ice machine from the fridge working she starts saying 'Ice, ice, ice, ice, ice, ice,' like a mad woman.
*We have reached the frustration time in her development where her mental need for indepence far out weighs her physical and verbal abilities. She has started showing her anger with yelling, hitting, and kicking. It helps to understand why she is doing this, but it doesn't make it any easier. Where is our sweet baby? Our sweet baby is growing up and it's our job to let her know that it is ok to be mad, but that she can't yell or hurt anyone else because of it.
*One of the very few parts of the above statements that is pretty cute is that she can now say sorry. I don't know where she got it from, but she says 'sah-wee' with her head cocked to one side. Pretty dag-on precious. Once she figured out when to use it, she'll now say anytime that someone has knocked her down or made her upset, kind of like saying they need to be sorry!
*The girl is also obsessed with shoes. Any time she sees her 'ssshhhoooooeeeesss' (said with some seriously pursed up lips), she wants them on. She'll grab them and get us to put them on her. Any time I go into her closet, she'll say 'sssshhhooooeeeessss'. Any time she sees anyone elses shoes she'll bring them to that person and get them to put them on.
*She is getting good at completing tasks. For instance, every time that Jason gets ready to go, she'll go and grab his sunglasses off of the table at the front door. If he doesn't need them or isn't ready to go anywhere, you can tell her to go put them back and she will.
* She loves to brush her teeth. Any time you say anything about brushing teeth or if she sees us doing it, she'll say 'Ahh!' and try to get up there with us.
*She has started spinning. I'm not sure where she learned it, but she'll start spinning and then hold her arms out like she is a little dancer.
*She LOVES LOVES LOVES the Bubble Guppies. Luckily it is a super cute show with some really good music, but all day she will point to the TV and just yell out, 'Bubble!' As soon as it comes on she gets the biggest smile on her face and starts grooving with them. We have to limit her Bubble time every day because she would already watch it over and over. Thank goodness for DVR!
*She is doing so well with talking and using words to help get her point across. One thing I cannot and will not handle is a fussy, whiny kid (haha, yeah good luck to me). So even now when she starts to fuss we tell her that she needs to tell us what she wants. Then she can say pretty much everything she needs - eat, hungry, pease (she has been signing this for a while, but has just started saying it which is really nice), drink, milk, more, help, ice, etc.
*She has about 16 teeth in her head. She's working on the 15th and 16th (her upper canines), but she can tackle anything food wise we give her. It is crazy to see her smile or laugh and see all those teeth! It wasn't too long ago that she had those two little nuggets and that was it!
*Changing her diaper has kind of become the same concept as the bath - as long as you tell her what is going on, she's happy as a clam. Through the use of the play-by-play, you can now tell her to put her legs up and she'll swing them up and hold onto them and say 'legs'. She can also say 'tuta' (stolen from Leslie and Will) and reach down and pat it. I guess that is the same as little boys (aka all males) reaching down there and just playing with their twig and berries just to make sure they are there.
*She has a snack when she wakes up from her afternoon nap (we are beginning the work of dropping that morning nap and getting her down to one a day) and as soon as we ask her if she wants a snack she yells out 'Nack!'
*She still loves to read books and it is crazy what all she knows now. You can ask her to find stuff on a page and you can see her eyes moving all over the page and then she'll point out what you asked.
*When the dogs start barking she'll say, 'Hush!' I wonder where she got that from?!
I'm pretty sure she is doing a thousand other things that we think is awesome and intelligent and precious, but this will do for now! We have one smart, precious, sassy little girl!
