Month 21 Stats

Month 21. Wow you are almost 2 years old now. You still like to keep your mouth wide open when I take your picture. If you look behind you, you can see we now have a dining table. We haven't had one for a long time. While you were away in Chico I put together a lot of furniture we bought and straightened up the apartment. We're finally settled in from our move.


You can see some flowers in the back that you picked out. Last week while mommy was at work we went outside to play and stopped in the flower shop on the way back. I took you around to each flower and said, 'that one?'. Finally when we hit the orange ones you said, 'yes'. It must be because we're near Haloween.


I'm trying to think of all the things you do now. He are some of them:

• The Wiggles. You watch The Wiggles now more than Elmo. You like the songs they sing. When I get home you say, "Wigguh... Wigguh"
  
• Trouble sleeping. You've had a hard time sleeping lately. You cry for a very long time when we put you down. We've taken to waking you up earlier so you are more tired when 8:30 rolls around. It seems to be helping.
• You learn words extremely fast now. I taught you pumpkin once and you remembered the word 3 days later. I taught you "Go Team" with your pom poms and you would say it later in the day no problem. You know most words now to get around. Still not sentences though. Except you do say sentences in gibberish. You're warming up.
• Drawing. You love to sit on the counter and play with your crayons and pens. We're trying to teach you words while you do this.
• "DVD!" You scream DVD whenever you see a DVD. It's kind of funny.
• "Mommya, Daddya". You add an 'ya' at the end of our names now. I think it is because we call you Sophie most of the time but your name is Sophia which sounds like Sophie-ya.
• You sometimes sleep like daddy - on all fours with your butt up in the air and your head buried in the bed. Mommy laughs at us.
  
• You still have a funny run. Everyone points it out.
• You can do dances. There's one by the Wiggles that starts out "Everybody clap" and then you are supposed to clap. You can do all the moves. Here's the whole song:
• Everybody clap (clap clap clap)
  Everybody sing (la la la la la)
  Bow to your partner
  Then you turn around
  Hands in the air
  Rockabye your bear
  Bear is now asleep
  Shh shh shh
  Bear is now asleep
  Shh shh shh
• You love adult chairs. You love to climb on all the adult chairs in the apartment.
  

Here's mommy giving you some Cheerios.


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