conuly

(And whoever else has a birthday today, of course)

She doesn't know it's her birthday yet, because her party isn't until next week, to make it close to Halloween. She got two presents from people who won't be at the party, but since she's too little to really understand, that's not a concern.

This is where she is right now.
Another link

1. She does use real sentences, but most of them are more or less scripted - "Can I have more, please?" and "I want some fish, please" and "That's my book". New ones tend to skip out on words.

2. She will hit and pinch her sister. Once, I prevented her from doing this, so she bit Angelique instead, while ostensibly hugging her.

3. She plays with her sister, but she yells (and hits/pinches) if Angelique tries to make her play when she doesn't want to. I can only have so much sympathy for the older one when her sister makes it clear she wants to be left alone, and yet isn't.

4. She shakes her head instead of saying "not". So it's "My daddy. *shaking head* Ana daddy" (though we know that he's both, of course).

5. Just in the past few days, she's started saying "Mommy" instead of "mom", and started going "Mommy, mommy" when she wakes up instead of just crying. She's also started getting upset when her mom leaves in the morning.

6. I've started letting her help out during Kidz Cook. Yesterday, she kept wanting to eat her ingredients (we were making s'mores), so I showed her how to put her hands together, and after two tries, she got it right and never made a mistake again. She does it the way I do - left pinky on the bottom, left thumb on the top. (The right thumb comes right after the right index finger, and the left thumb covers both of them.) That might just be from imitating me, though.

7. She's still bowlegged, but I think it's getting better. It's certainly not hindering her, though people who see her well after a missed nap sometimes confuse "sleepiness" with "she can't walk omg" :)

8. She can, if holding a hand or the banister, go up the stairs one at a time.