I just can’t get enough. Really. I’m with Laina all day every day (for the most part), and I just can’t get enough of her cute little ways and funny personality. There’s really nowhere I’d rather be during the day than with her.
She is continuing to change every day…saying new words and using new signs…experimenting with movement…getting funnier by the minute. Here are a few new developments from this month…
– She said her first two-word sentence!(–well besides “Good girl” which she has been saying for a while) Of course, she said “More cheese!”
-She has started jointly waving and saying hi. It’s adorable because she says “Hiieeeeee.” She’s such a little social butterfly, and typically does this when we are out running errands. She loves when people say “Hi” back to her.
-She started practicing her own version of the alphabet.
– She has started recognizing some letters–M,N,S,D,O,T–and some shapes (oval, heart, circle mainly)
– She is saying new words almost daily. It always melts my heart to hear her say a word for the first time…and I get a kick out of the way she looks up at us in excitement! Some of the latest are: Owen, lemon, cook, yummy, milk, uh-oh, shower, hand, seashell, heart, daughter, earring, Hex, bill, Annie, Alicia, Ernie, Bert, Elmo,
-Some new signs are banana, sun, laugh, happy, sad, thank you, cookie, grammy/nanny &granddad/poppy
-She has started giving real hugs. If we open our arms, she runs towards us and wraps her arms around us. I’m thinking this may get old for her considering we ask for them constantly! It is just too sweet.
-She has started pretending more and more. She’s very into having tea parties these days. She also likes pretending to feed people.
-“Tickle” was one of her first words…so she has said it a lot…and of course gotten tickled a lot. Now, she has started to tickle us (and Petey and Ellie). She gets this really cute grin on her face and repeatedly says “Tickle.”
– She has developed this daily ritual in which she walks over to her little basket of shoes, and finds one in particular (a black shoe given to her by her cousin.) When we are home, that black shoe is next to her most of the day. She loves trying to put her shoe on, and she will spend 20 minutes at a time just doing this. When she gets pretty close, she shouts “Good girl!.”
– She’s now saying Mommy and Daddy just as much if not more than she is saying Mama and Dada.
– She LOVES twirling!!!
– I guess I saved the best for last. She has started saying and signing “I love you” simultaneously …mostly right before she goes to bed at night. “I love you” sounds more like “Owa”…but we’ll take it!
