2014

So, the new year started with you being able to walk. You were very timid about it at first and it wasn't really until end of January/beginning of February that you officially gave up crawling and just walked everywhere.

Soon after walking came all the talking!! It seemed everyday you learned new words, and now here we are in September and you can let us know with words what it is you would like and are learning new words all the time.

I know you've done SO MUCH MORE in the past 9 months, and this is what I get for not being better about writing it all down, but I just can't seem to remember everything that you've learned and exactly when you learned it.

About 3 weeks ago you started asking to watch "Let It Go" everyday. This referred to Frozen and you favorite part of the movie. At first you would sing just the words "Let It Go" When that song came on. Now you can sing the end word of every line plus other words through out each of the songs. You will finally name individual characters (Elsa, Anna, and Olaf) instead of just saying "Let it Go" anytime we ask you what you're watching or who is this character.

It's so exciting to see you learn more and more everyday. You play so well, and Labor Day weekend you started going down the slide at parks again. You had done well in March but then seemed to be timid about it. So it was exciting to see you want to go down slides again. You also were willing to do the big slides instead of just the little ones.

The Swings are still your favorite part of the park. If someone is willing to push you, you would stay there all day.

At Grammy Parrish's house your favorite activity is to jump on the trampoline! You are SO GOOD AT THIS!! You started jumping on the tramp at about 17 months. We did a wiggle worms class, which was a mom and tots gymnastics class. You learned how to do a somersault... kind of, you would at least bend in half and put your hands by your head, though you never could kick over by yourself but were more than happy to have me help push you over. They had a little tramp that you always ran to first. You learned about taking turns in this class since there were other kiddos that also wanted to jump when they came to that stage of the obstacle course.

We always did a little warm up activity and then the obstacles. Last came the bars. By then you were usually pretty tired and grumpy from being told what to do that you didn't like to do bars. Near the end of the 10 week class we could finally get you to grab hold of the bars and let us swing you or help you flip over.

ANYWAY ever since the start of that you loved jumping on the tramp, learned how to climb the ladder to get on the tramp, and could go down the slide if you wanted off the tramp. You are definitely my little independent girl who wants to figure out ways to do things all on your own.

Some of your favorite foods are Watermelon, Cottage Cheese, Apples, Pizza, and Mac 'n' Cheese. Also Cheese Ravioli.

You like to make funny faces or repeat what other people say or do. You sometimes talk in your "monster" voice, where the words you say come out... gravelly? I suppose would be the closest way to describe it.

You started sleeping in a toddler bed June 2014. After the first 2 nights of falling off the bed you have done wonderfully!!

There was one night when mama accidentally left a sippy cup full of water on the nightstand next to your closet... in the morning when I went to get you up the sippy cup was in the bed with you, empty. So at some time in the night you got up and found the water on the opposite side of the room then went back to bed.

There was another night when I accidentally left the diaper bag in the room, you found your puffs, and took them to bed. These actually spilled everywhere and left a nice mess for mama to clean up.

So after those two incidents I've learned to make sure that your room is completely picked up before you go to bed. There have been mornings when you have different books in your bed. It always makes me happy, and makes me wonder when in the night it is that you wake up. Is it before you fall asleep? Or in the middle of the night? Whenever it is, you are very quiet about it.

HMMM.... I guess that's a good update for now. Here's some pics of the last 9 months:

You would walk with your arms behind you: Drinking from a straw at Taco John's. You picked up the cup all by yourself and did this.
Pretty hair do
 
 pretty dress

Daddy's Little Valentine

trying on mommy's shoes

feeding yourself
  first time wearing helmet and going on a bike ride.

Okay, that's probably enough for now.