You also love going to church and to the nursery. On Sundays when I wake you up you usually get out of bed talking about church and the nursery. I think you mostly love getting to see your friends. And I know you really love Baby Bible Class on Sunday mornings.
This month you have really started to play "mommy" to your little baby dolls. You wrap them in blankets, tell them "night night" and put them in the little play crib. You put them on the potty. You put them in your high chair and tell them to eat. You pretend to share your milk with them. You put them in the toy stroller and take them for walks. You hug and kiss them. It's really very cute to see you taking care of your babies. I love it!
For the first part of the month you guessed that every color was red. Now you have decided that everything is "boo" (blue).
We started potty training at the end of last month. You did so great for being so young. We worked non-stop for four or five days and then you did great and were accident free for almost a week! Then you regressed and so now we are still working on it. Some days you do great and other days you go in your pull-up a lot. But it's okay. Being as young as you are it will take a while to form this new habit. And in the meantime, it's good practice to go on the potty as much as you can.
You are, of course, still talking a lot. For the most part you say your words very clearly and are easy to understand. I love your little language and the way you say some things. In fact, I love it so much that I wrote down a lot of the ways you say things right now. Here are some of them:
- hot coffee: "hot hot cowsie"
- silly: "siyee"
- face: "pace" (and your "s" is lispy which makes it even cuter!)
- tickle: "kickle"
- grapes: "gapes"
- barrette: "bet"
- drink: "get" (I have no idea why you call it that.)
- butterfly: "buh-sye"
- ladybug: "bee-bug"
- fish: "pis"
- socks: "gocks"
- five: "pise"
- yes ma'am: "nuh-nus" (but you say "yes sir" perfectly)
- circle: "kuh-kul"
- blocks: "box"
- Mister: "Missy" (You call Mr. Brown in the Dr. Seuss books "Missy Bown.")
- Baby Iola: "Baby Oh-la-la"
- Mommy's phone: "Mommy soam"
- Beans: "benness"
- And to sing "open and shut them" you start to do the motions and sing "Oh-kee-kee."
Here are a few other specific memories from this month:
02/01 - Your first time to play with Play-Doh. (You only tried to taste it once.)
02/02 - You tried to pray by yourself. You bowed your head, covered your eyes with your hands, and said, "Jesus, Jesus, Amen!" That evening you also walked around the house in your panties and one boot. It was so cute!
A picture of you on 02/05
02/09 - You spin around in the living room singing "pokey pokey pokey," - it's your version of doing the Hokey Pokey song.
- You took a bowl and wore it around the house like a hat.
- You took a bowl and wore it around the house like a hat.
Here is a picture of you on the same day playing with Daddy's shoes.
- You also got a new bike today!
- And you like to play a jumping game - jumping off a little step stool.
02/10 - You had your 18-month check-up today. You weighed 26.4 pounds (77th percentile) and measured 33 inches tall (87th percentile). Big girl!
02/13 - You love Pixie and are so sweet with her!
02/13 - You love Pixie and are so sweet with her!
02/16 - Here is one of the first pictures I took of you with my new "fancy" DSLR camera.
02/17 - You went to the zoo with Mommy and Daddy.
02/18 - Here's a cute bath picture!
02/18 - You LOVE Jordan and she loves you too! She likes to read books to you and play with you. Here are a couple of pictures from our visit to her house this evening.
02/20 - Playing with Uncle Sam and Daddy at Grampa & Nana's house.
02/21 - We went to Siloam Springs today to see Kristin, Hannah, Gideon, baby Gracie, Great Aunt Kristi, and Great Grandma Dorothy. You loved the rabbit!
02/23 - Right now when you count you always say, "One, six, seven, eight!" And you count EVERYTHING.
- Here are some pictures of you on the potty with your book. (I think they're cute!)
- Here is a picture of you after you woke up from your nap.
- When I tell you to give me a kiss you sometimes try to get away because you like when I chase you, pick you up, turn you upside down, and pepper your face with kisses. I love that game too! :)
- This morning you found a paper sack with two empty milk cartons and played with them for the longest time!
02/26 - We went to Mazzio's with some other families after church and you, Sophia Fleet, and Zuri Dar all held hands and bowed your heads to pray in the middle of dinner. It was so sweet! Zuri got to ride with us in our car which you thought was fun.
02/28 - We went to the zoo with "Aunt" Lyndsie and Zuri!
- Shouting at the dogs...
02/29 - Happy Leap Day! We played at the park with Natalie Hefner after story time at the library.
02/27 - Playing with Daddy
02/28 - We went to the zoo with "Aunt" Lyndsie and Zuri!
- Shouting at the dogs...
02/29 - Happy Leap Day! We played at the park with Natalie Hefner after story time at the library.
And you were too cute in your panties later that afternoon.
