Here's what she's up to now.
- She pretty much potty trained herself. In Mid-November she took her diaper off, said "potty" and we put her on the toilet. She peed and the rest is history.
- Her speech has exploded. She went from barely putting two words together at 18 months, to now speaking in at least 3-word sentences.
- Along with speaking . . . she's singing. She's trying to sing words to songs. It's darling! She tries to sing, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and it comes out as "Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle" all to the right tune. She also does this with "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," "The Wheels On the Bus," and "I Love to See the Temple."
- She also tries to sing along to our favorite pop songs that we play often and dance to. She has picked up on several background phrases and repeats them when the song is playing. (Trolls "Sound of Silence" song she says the background "Hello". She says the "Come on Girl" halfway through "Shut Up and Dance With Me." And, there are others.)
- She knows her colors! Woot! For a while there everything was PINK. And then we got to the point where we would ask her what color something was and she would still say pink, but then we could say, "No. What color is it really?" and she would give the correct color most of the time. Now, she is almost always correct with the right color. Yay!
- She is starting to count. She can't go in order yet, but she recognizes numbers and loves to try to count.
- She can jump with both feet leaving the floor. She just barely started doing this and she's pretty proud of this new trick. She'll jump several times in a row saying, "Hop" with each one.
- She loves to say her prayers. She's always asking to pray. It's darling. We start her prayer for her and then she lists who/what she's thankful for. Grandpa and Ty Ty are always first on the list and the the list varies after that.
- She wants to touch everything. When she sees things she'll constantly say, "I want to touch it." This goes for EVERYTHING . . . . new clothes, food, fabric, the sun, the moon, her own poop (I know.... gross), and much more.
- If it's not stationary she wants to ride it. If she sees something moving she'll say, "I want to ride it." Passing cars, trucks, trains, flying airplanes, etc.
- She started saying, "Okay Mommy" to just about anything I tell her. I can be asking her to do something or just simply telling her something. Some times she even says it out of frustration (like when I remind her 20 times to stop making messes . . . "OKAY MOMMY!").
- One of our most favorite sayings of her right now is, "I like it!" She'll say it so cute and enthusiastically. This is usually after she eats something she likes, but it can also apply to trying new things like going on new slides or swings or whatever.
- She has a few cute "baby talk" things that are worth mentioning. She puts a "d" on the end of words that typically end with an "n." Downd is her most commonly used word in this category. She also loves to push buttons, but calls them buntons. Fruit Snacks are nack-nacks. Garbage is garbib.
- She LOVES the movie, "Frozen." Anna is her favorite character. When given TV time, this is the movie of choice. Needless to say, we have the movie memorized from start to finish.
- She's a smart little cookie and learned that taking the step-stool from the bathroom to just-about-everywhere allows her to access more things. Thus, she is constantly taking that stool with her everywhere to explore more places, grab more things, etc.
- This girl knows what she wants and she does what she has to do to get it. You want to try the "cry-it-out" technique on this girl . . . good luck! She doesn't stop crying, screaming, or begging until she gets her outcome. She's really always been this way. Very calm and quiet as a mouse, until she needs/wants something.
- Food wise - she still loves to drink from her bottle and loves her milk. Her favorite food right now is probably soup (and she eats it on her own surprisingly well). She still eats several foods and spits them out when the flavor is gone (this is most commonly done with fruits and vegetables). She also loves to smell her food before she eats it.
- She loves the temple. She loves to read her birth story book to look for the temple. She loves to drive by the temple (and as referenced above, always wants to "touch it").
- She pats our arms or backs in an endearing manner. It's so sweet.
- She loves to draw and color.
- She just started fake crying and whining. Stinker!
- She tries to read books on her own. She'll open a book and start talking in gibberish as if she's actually reading.
- She works bedtime as well as any of the best 2-year-olds out there. I'm certain if there was a competition, she'd win it. And, remember . . . . she doesn't give up on anything, so sometimes the bedtime process has taken 90 minutes. Stinker, stinker stinker!
- She loves girlie things. She loves jewelry, shoes, makeup, fingernail polish, etc.
- She is a little obsessed with car crashes and throw up. We passed a car crash on the freeway and there were lots of emergency vehicle lights and she thought that was awesome. So, now she's constantly wanting to find car crashes. Sometimes she'll even tell us that she got her owies from car crashes (because we told her that car crashes are not awesome because people get lots of owies.). Throw up - she recently caught the stomach flu and so now she talks about throw up all of the time. She'll tell you that when you throw up you should do it in the toilet or the garbib. :)
- She is in love with her new kitty, Boots. Luckily, Boots is so patient with her and has endured her pulling his tail, holding him upside down, and much more. She constantly wants to hold him and pet him. She loves how his fur and whiskers tickle her.
- She seriously is so naughty sometimes. Nobody believes me because she looks so sweet and innocent (which she uses to her advantage, BTW). She will sometimes purposely do something naughty. For instance, she'll grab a cup full of water, get your attention, give you that look that says, "I'm going to dump this out before you can stop me and it's going to be so funny", accompanies that with a grin, and quickly dumps that water on the floor. Then, she runs like mad (laughing the whole way, mind you) before you can catch her because all along she knew that was the wrong thing to do. Lately, the worst of all her naughty acts was when she grabbed an open bottle of nail polish (I was painting Evie's toes) and before I could even grab it back she flung it all around my bathroom and herself. That was pretty epic. I took a picture of it so that I can proof to all of you non-believers that she can definitely be naughty. And somehow, she remains huggable and kissable after the fact. (But, don't you worry . . . she still gets her punishments too.)
- Speaking of punishments - she's a hard one to punish. She thinks timeouts are funny. She'll start to do something naughty and we'll say, "Do you want to go to timeout?" thinking that this will deter her behavior. She simply replies, "yes." She doesn't care. She seems to hate timeouts if I put her in her bed and close the door (as she doesn't like to be out of ear/eye shot from me. But, even then, it's pretty short-lived. She's silly . . . .
- She loves to be silly. She's always looking for a good laugh, doing something to get us to laugh, and finding things that are so silly. She loves to giggle and laugh and I'll constantly find her and Evie laughing and playing together.
- When she tells you she loves you she says, "I loves you." Oh, it's a heart melter. "I loves you mom." Oh, how I loves her!!
- She LOVES her people. Her people are her thing. She connects everything with her people. She remembers who gave her what gifts. She remembers what places she has been with what people. She knows what things belong to what people. Her memories center around her people. She LOVES her people!
That's a long list and I'm sure it's not everything, but I'm sure it gives you a good idea of who she is and what she's like right now. She's silly, naughty, funny, fun, mischievous, girlie, a talker, and loves her people!
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