-Some new words/phrases: mouse, donuts, unbuckle now, Cheerios, Merry Christmas!!, applesauce (sounds kinda like apple piss honestly!), home!! (when we pull into garage), I love you, excuse me (sounds like shooo-me!), cookie, chocolate, happy, sad, strawberries (sawbabies), can I have it?, wanna have it, Mommy!, read!!, heavy, help please, Mama!, play/I play, look, Mommy! look (over and over-sounds kinda like "wook"), shoe-wee! (when I change any diaper-whether dirty or not), Jesus, open, close, help.
-Nightly advent was a big even this past month for our family. Annie loved it and would dance around as Steven played the guitar, would love blowing out the candles when we were done, and learned the word chocolate because of the little advent calendar we opened each night. She was very demanding and excited about this-throwing fits and crying for it one minute, then giggling and all smiles the next because she got it!
-Annie has shown some serious attitude this month with lots of screaming "no!!" and fits, etc. Of course, she still has her sweet times, but she has shown her sassy and dramatic side in a whole new way this month! She learned to "jump" which for her is just raising one foot up and stomping it back down. She transferred this new move to add extra umpff to her fits, though, and sometimes will throw in a stomp while saying no. Sheesh!
-She is SO obsessed with books right now. It is the first thing she talks about in the morning or after nap. She says-read!! book!! wanna read!! She has laser focus and will not let us get away with us not actually reading to her! She is such a lap sitter, too, and wants to back up into our laps to be read to.
-She has started sitting up at the bar stools beside Henry now while I cook or when they eat breakfast, and she looks SO big doing this! She also pushes the bar stools (and other furniture) around the house now. She also loves to push the popper toy around and the wooden frog in laps from kitchen, dining room, LR, and back again. She also carries different bags around the house like a purse. I need to get her a real one I guess!
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| Annie's big gift on Christmas morning was a baby doll-she was adorable feeding it a bottle and putting in the paci. She had clothes on, but as you can see those got taken off quickly. Annie throws fits if I try to re-clothe the baby. Oh well! |
-She adores her blankie and lovie, and this month I have noticed her using her blankie to cover up different toys (Little People baby Jesus from our nativity set, her glow worm), and then she will say, "night night!"
-Henry was older when we let him start watching TV, but with Annie being the second kid, just gets exposed earlier. Oh well! She doesn't watch long before she gets down off the sofa, but she will sit beside bubba for a few minutes and just take it all in. So cute to see their little profiles side by side.
-The moved her up in church nursery, but she cries and when the infant workers hear her, evidently the go rescue her (especially if Mr. Jason is there). They spoil her!
-She just loves her brother, and she wants everything he has. Toys, food, attention, you name it. When he is on the floor she will go latch onto him like an octopus and "wrestle" with him. She is really tough and seems to like the tousle, but Henry is the one begging for her to get off and saying she is hurting him. Ha! She's gonna be a tough girl. When I do laundry, she always gets bubba's undies and carries them around the house, too. Ha! Oh, and she can say "undies". I think it is because they are Elmo themed ones, but still, it's pretty funny.
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| It's getting harder and harder to get a good pic of this girl-she is constantly moving as you can see! |
-When I go to get her out of her car seat, she plays a game with me. She has her head turned away from me kind of buried in the side of the headrest. I say, "where's Annie?" and she turns her head to look at me with a big grin...then immediately goes to hid her face again. We do this a couple times, then the game usually ends with he getting her neck with kisses-she is so ticklish! Sweetie.
-While we are out and someone asks her, "How are you?" she thinks they are asking her age and plays her game with them by saying, "two!!"...they don't really get it, but I do and think she's funny!
-We had a rainy December, and every time we would walk outside, she would start singing, "rain, rain, go away!" She counts!! She must have picked this up from Henry or school, because we certainly haven't worked with her on it. She usually starts with two and skips five, and her ten sounds like "bomb!!" for some reason, but otherwise she sounds so big doing this! She so articulately says each number (se-ven!), and does so in order. We are impressed, anyway!:)
We love you, big girl!! Thanks for being so much fun and sassy and so sweet, too. Can't wait to see what next month holds for you!
