Amelia is at an age where she just learns things so fast – and does so many cute things, in addition to having so many toddler moments… its really hard to capture it all. I thought I would brainstorm some of the funny and frustrating things that I can think of:
- She learned to say ‘touchdown’ which includes hands in the air
- She gets fascinated by one of the foods on her plate – will eat all of that one, and only want more of that one (it can be anything on the plate – veggie, bread, meat). We can usually get her to try something else – but it usually requires us feeding her off of our fork – somehow that makes it more acceptable, and then she’ll eat the other foods. She has us trained well.
- At daycare there is a paci in her cube, which is way above her head out of reach. She only takes it during naptime, typically. However, as soon as Chris or I come to pick her up – she gets excited to see us then walks over to the cubes to try and get to that paci. (It even appears she tries to climb up the coat hooks to get to the cube) I’m not sure why, I don’t give it to her, never have. Well maybe once, but only once. And when she doesn’t get it, she melts down. I have found once I have her in the hallway I can distract her by having her walk out instead of me carrying her and that helps quite a bit.
- She prefers men over women – whether its my dad, my uncle, my friend’s husband – she warms up to men faster than women. UNLESS its Santa, which she freaked out about again at daycare yesterday.
- She is at the copy phase now, she’s copied us saying ‘all-right’, ‘one more’ …
- She thinks pumpkins are a kind of apple (she recognizes apples no problem)
- She thinks she can walk up the stairs like an adult and doesn’t want to crawl up them (her legs are a good inch too short at least for this) – so we end up carrying her most times
- Signs that I haven’t shown her in months will suddenly appear. The other day she started using the sign for father (and saying dada at the same time), which we haven’t watched that signing dvd since October at least. And I think she knew that grandfather was a similar sign, but its hard to tell.
- She thinks she is funny, and cracks herself up by trying to do things like put her paci in your mouth
- She wants you to chase her, and giggles when you catch her
- She is very loving, good at hugs & kisses
- As of Saturday, when we got her a cuddly lamb to help out with Santa photos, she now has a ‘lovey’ that she seems to be fairly attached to
- She tries to pretend – she will see food on a page in a book and pretend to eat it and smiles real big
- She knows there is a baby in our Nativity set for Christmas – she will point and ‘rock a baby’ in her arms – and say baby (more like bebe)
- She loves pictures of herself, but really of all babies
- She has to eat the minute you get her from her crib; she’s happy to play in there until you get in there, but once you pick her up you much bring her downstairs to feed her – loves her oatmeal & yogurt
- Food is one of the few things that will have full tantrums involved, and usually its because she sees a snack in the pantry or on the counter and we don’t want to give them to her; or she’s starving for dinner and it takes me 2 minutes to make it
- She can feed herself most of her oatmeal & yogurt breakfast – though at some point, inevitably, she uses her hand instead of her spoon; halfway through she usually likes me to start helping, she prefers the faster feeding
- She likes to do ‘humpty dumpty’ like we did at music class, bouncing on our legs and rolling back at the end – she will walk over to us and sit on our legs and start bouncing herself to do it
- Almost all animals say ‘baaaa’ apparently, except cows & dogs which say ‘moo’ and ‘ruff ruff’ respectively
- She’s obsessed with washing her hands or getting purell on her hands – loves it… we have to cut her off.
I have trouble remembering all the words she can say now… but the list is growing. Many of the words would be hard to pick out if you weren’t looking for them. Like ‘ba’ for her bath last night. But many of them are clear. Let’s see: thank you, book, bye bye, mama, dada, more, hot, baaaa, mooo, upstairs, up, down, apple, ball, hat, meme (for me), baby, touchdown (so funny) – she’s repeated me on bath and car and even doctor, but I’m not sure she really knows those; and signs she uses include thank you, bye bye, milk, drink, more, eat, please, brush teeth, wash hands, sleep, hat, baby… I feel like she does more than that. But its so hard to remember everything these days!
How could I forget – no. She loves ‘no’ and shakes her head with it. She uses it appropriately too – Amelia would you like to get out of the bath and go to bed? – Nooo. Amelia would you like some milk? Nooo. Its a slightly drawn out no, and adorable yet I know it will get a source of frustration to come.
I hope you enjoy these little glimpses into Amelia’s life. We took some cute photos last night that I will try to get online tonight.
Happy Wednesday,
Kelly
