-Some new words: pocket, earth (erf), open, close, jacket, hair bow out (informing us), shoe off (informing us), princess, I'm coloring (I cuh-nun-ning), balloon (boon), bread, candle, glasses (I got new ones-after she broke mine-and every time she saw me in them for the first few days, she would say, "glasses!"), monkey, santa (seent-tuh!), snowman, Annie! (when she sees a pic of herself or when she's talking to someone on facetime she will point to herself and say it), Henry (Henny), Scarlett, Zacky (both school friends), fell down, oh no!, are you sleeping? (asked this when brother was covered up with his blanket on the floor-I had not idea she could say/ask that!), I wanna read book!, napkin, silly, tissue, washcloth, fish, kiss (both kinda sound like wish), paper (pee-puh!), hungry!, i wanna see (video on phone for example), reach!, I wanna hug you!, Wanna hold you (oh, how this reminds me of her brother!), pizza. pizza hot!, Bye Owen! Bye Ellis! (school friends), jammies (sounds like beammies), fist bump, sticker (sick-uhh), loud! (and immediately covers her ears), I'm sleepy (and will lie down on the floor), why!!??? (not always, but sometimes in combination with a fit she's throwing after she's been told no-and with such passion, too!), No! Mine! (perfectly on que....where did she learn these 2???:))
-Something I've really noticed this month is her singing. She would always join in enthusiastically when we would start to sing, but this month she's been singing to herself a lot, and I love it. In her car seat we overheard her singing "go to sleep, go to sleep" to the bear she was holding. She voluntarily sings the alphabet, too! I didn't know she could do this, but she's picked it up somewhere. She doesn't get it perfectly of course, but I love hearing her try. I need to video it sometime. I've also started waiting to give her paci until we are done singing our night night songs before bed. This means she joins in, and her little voice singing Jesus Loves Me (she says Jesus perfectly and especially emphasizes ME!), Rock a Bye Baby, I Love you and Bushel and a Peck, (and more) and then joining in to say thank you God for Dada, Bubba, Mama, Maggie when we pray is oh, so sweet.
-She counts everything!! I've noticed her lining things up and counting them (not perfectly, but using her little pointer finger and going through the numbers she knows). It amazes me! Our brains are wired for order so early! She is just a baby! She's done this with things like food on her tray, foam toys in the tub, etc. I guess it's with things that are the same. She definitely knows how many two is. She's gotten one of something like a cracker, and I give her another and she immediately, happily says, "two!" I noticed her do it with her duck push toy. She had it out, then also got the popper toy to push at the same time. She was so proud and said-"two, mamma!!"
-Books are still her main passion, and she ALWAYS has a book in hand and is asking/demanding to read. She takes them to the car with her and looks through them while we drive, too. Her second fave toy is probably her popper push toy. She also likes to put on necklaces and had had fun with the piggy bank toy lately that she got for Christmas. She can put the toy coins in the slot at the top herself.
-I don't think I've mentioned her sleeping in a while. She still such a great sleeper, and is SO, SO easy to put to bed. She's cuddly and requires so little. She goes to bed between 7 and 7:30, and I wake her for school at 6:40 or 6:45. Sometimes she's already awake in her bed rolling around and talking. She takes a nap from 1 to anywhere from 3:30 to 4:30, and wakes up happy. She still uses a paci just for sleep, and loves it. She also has her blankie and lovie to snuggle with during nap and night.
-She's still a great eater overall (esp compared to her brother at this age), but she has difficult times when everything ends up on the floor. She doesn't love her highchair, so we have started letting her sit in a regular chair some at home at the dinner table and use a booster at restaurants. She is very happy about this, so it is (usually) a win-win, except for the times when she starts feeling too free and wants to crawl up on the table or walk around the booth...then we have to go back to the high chair! She likes most foods, but one thing that is kinda funny that she refuses is green olives. Everyone else in our family loves them (including our extended family-even kids!), so she is different in that way! She always tries them, but the end up back out of her mouth with a bad face. :)
-Her fits/screaming have slowed down (yay!), but she's started throwing things now, too. She chucks Cheerios and crackers in the car, tortilla chips at the Mexican restaurant....a habit we are trying to change!:)
-This is random, but we find her sitting and quietly examining between her toes a lot! Sometimes she's super quiet in the car and we look back to see she's shed her shoes, socks, and is just checking out those little piggies! She does it at home too...we will wonder what she's doing and find her sitting almost cross-legged with two toes pulled apart just staring in between the two! So funny! Oh, and speaking of toes, she got her toes painted for the first time ever by cousin Emma. She was SO, SO proud of them, too. I had no idea she'd even care, but she was all smiles while they were being painted, and afterward went around to show everyone her feet. It was adorable-and such a girl thing!:)
-Annie LOVES bath and brushing her teeth still. Just recently we've started letting the two kids have the shower on for a few minutes once we are done with actual bath. She loves it! She is so crazy and wild in there and acts like it is a party...water in her eyes, mouth, nose....doesn't bother her! The more the merrier.
You're a sweet blessing, Miss Anne. Can't wait to see what next month holds!
