Our little girl is almost a year and a half old! I can't believe how fast the year went! Last summer I was bored because all she did was sleep and now, now it's completely different story! Who has time to be bored when you're entertaining a toddler all day? Grace thinks she's such a big girl! She's walking up and down the stairs on her own, climbing on and off of the furniture on her own, trying to put her shoes on by herself, and knows EXACTLY what she wants and when she wants it. Whew! Boy, does she!
She's also taken to home decorating. Her favorite medium is toilet paper. I'd be happy to send her your way if you're interested!
Her vocabulary is expanding daily. It's so fun to listen to her jabber in the monitor when she wakes up. This morning she was practicing her inflection on the word NO. Her new words are:
Diaper
Bottle
Bye Bye
Up
Down
Yeah
No
Thank you
I'm sure I'm missing some, but that isn't too bad for a 15 month old! She's also been telling us when she's hungry by pushing the high-chair and saying up as well as heading up the stairs to her room when we ask her if she needs a diaper change (to which she also responds, "yeah!") She LOVES to read! I can't get over how long she'll sit and look through her books. She'll read to herself and make the correct animal noises on each page. She'll bring me a book and back up into me so I know she wants to sit on my lap. If I am distracted, she'll take my hand and make it hold the book. Like I said, she knows EXACTLY what she wants and when she wants it.
I've started hiding books that I'm tired of reading. I think last week "Goodnight Gorilla" at least 100 times. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this book, it doesn't have much of a story! UGH! She's now into "The Frog goes Ribbet Ribbet" and "The Sheep Says Baa." Those might have to go live at Grandma and Grandpa's for a while. I'm trying to keep her busy this summer. We have been walking to the park to play in the mornings before it gets too hot. It's been over 100 for the past 16 days. Then we've been going to the pool after her nap. It isn't exactly cold enough to be refreshing, but she loves to swim! I think I'm going to try to take her to story time at the library this week. It's pretty close to her nap time, so we'll see how it goes.
She sure loves her animals! Shadow is so patient with her!
