Tuesday, September 15, 2009

20 Months


Looking so innocent - this would also have been called your Probation. The morning Mommy and Daddy went home from the hospital you were kicked out of daycare for 3 days - within a span of 4 hours, you bit 3 kids. They had enough so you came home with us for the week. Several episodes at home with getting in trouble and getting bitten by Daddy - you seem to have gotten over this. And you got bitten pretty hard at daycare so that helped I'm sure. Now you talk about "bite" and go around kissing your booboos - even if there isn't one. And you like to have your booboos kissed as well. Always seems to work.
Playing with playdo - except you require help and want "balls" made... kept you occupied for quite awhile!
Eating a cupcake - thanks Melinda, Pam, and Gaye! Why won't you eat anything else? You turn up your nose as first response to almost anything - even if you've always loved it. Except for cheese, milk, and some fruit. And you prefer an adult fork - you took mine this evening and gave me back your plastic one. You've started actually asking for "hep" (sounds a lot like up - we can't differentiate them actually) with some of your food.
Your words are taking off like crazy! The latest is "where go" or "I don't know" with your little arm shrug... or "see it?". Pickups these days are Pop - you point at them and ask about Pop - which really means Memma and Pop... "Aipane"s are everywhere, and you get very excited when you see them flying until you can't see them - then it's "where go?". Car trips can get a little frustrating cause you always want to find them.
New fascination is "pocka" - you like to fill your pockets, point out other people's pockets, and put things in Daddy's pockets. You do get kinda distressed when you don't have pockets such as on your dresses.
Crakors are still your fascination...
Playing with Pop - it was a little hard on your grandparents as you are testing us so often these days - they want to help discipline and know our frustration! You don't come when you are told, runasi away when we want you to come, don't give us things when we tell you... not to mention throwing fits. I think you cried 4 or 5 times today. Able to turn those tears on very easily. Swats on your butt are getting more frequent - they are about to get harder so watch out! The terrible twos have set earlier than expected!

Love to be tickled, to be chased, to laugh - your latest is showing me your "armpit" for the sole purpose of getting it pocked and tickled.
Your latest fun game is crawling up into the office chair. Anytime you are missing you can be found there. You are always so busy - aka getting into anything and everything you can find! Daddy said this weekend he went in to get you after your nap in the big bed at Nanny's - you had managed to get off and on the bed witnessed by the fact that you had pulled a pair of Mommy's underwear on over your pants. Silly girl!
You want to see the baby, help with the baby, touch the baby, find his body parts, bring me the paci and the blankie, watch diaper changes...
You love dressing yourself - you picked out this outfit. Granted, you still prefer to be naked in the true Baggett fashion. The other day Memma let you put your dress shoes on with your shorts, and you wore them all day. Still love your shoes and would put on fancy shoes every night before going to bed if allowed. Memma also taught you about baby powder, and you now want it rubbed on your belly at diaper time. Your hair is long and drives you crazy - you brush it out of your face a lot. Don't really know what to do about it, but sometimes you are still enough to put it into pigtails and look super cute!
Working on our colors - Mommy got tired of the fun little game of putting the "crakors" back in the broken box so now we have a bag to practice zipping. Gotten better at coloring and focus in on the different items to color in a picture. Amazes me how you can interpret the little drawings to what they actually are even when looking pretty abstract - how did that swirl mean flower? The broken crayons - of which there are several since you dump them on the floor and step on them - really stress you out; you point them out everytime you see them saying something similar to "broke".
We love you baby and are trying ot be tolerant as you make all these adjustments. You seem to be taking it pretty well - really hard to explain to you why Mommy can't hold you cause she's feeding the baby, rock you cause she's rocking the baby... all which breaks your Mommy's heart! But it makes it a lot better knowing how much you love your baby brother! A very devoted big sister...

1 comment:

craigandjodee said...

What a fun age! She is so sweet. I'm glad to here she is taking well to new little brother so far. Oh, and I love the pictures with your camera! They look great!