Yikes, one month more and my 'baby' will be 2! Bella's vocabulary continues to amaze me day by day and she is FINALLY starting to gain some gross motor skills/confidence. She will now walk up and down a step (it has to be tiny) without holding on. It could be an inch off the floor and she pauses before stepping up it as if it is a mountain, but hey, at least she is doing it! She loves to run, walk backwards, walk on tip toes, and just learned how to jump (and successfully get both feet off the floor)!
Big girls get to stay up later so Bella's new bedtime is between 7:30 and 8 pm (instead of 7), and she gets up between 6:30 and 7am. It's nice that she gets extra time with David in the evenings but it seems like I am ready for bed shortly after her! She naps from about 1 to 2:30 in the afternoon. We got into a bad habit of letting her carry the 'lovey' she sleeps with around the house. The other day I told her from now on it was only to sleep with. She very obediently reminds me "lovey stays in my bed" when I go get her! Also, since we are getting to be a big girl, we bought her an Elmo potty seat so she will now sit on the toilet, wipe, and flush (but hasn't actually done anything yet!).
Some of my favorite phrases:
-In Old Navy the other day I tried on a shirt and asked if she liked it. In her most emphatic voice she replies, "oooo, Mommy! That one is so cute!"
-She was playing with a sign outside a store and didn't want to go in. I told her they probably had signs inside the store she could touch and play with. She looked and me, thought about it, and said "True..." and walked on in. Really? What kid says "True"!
-Everything is "I need that one" or "I want that one"...we are trying to learn "May I have it please".
-She says "Excuse me" if she burps (without being asked to say it!)
-She is insanely observant about everything. She will tell you the shape of anything, it's color, whether someone has short or long hair, etc. My favorite is, "that's a circle. Has no angles"!
-I had been telling Bella Stop Signs were hexagons (not one of my smarter moments!) and while in the car with David she said "look, a hexagon". David corrected her, so now anytime she sees a stop sign she says, "look, an octagon. Not a hexagon".
-If you tell her she can't do something she says, "Hmmm....let's try it"!
-She is such a negotiator. If she wants something to snack on besides what I have given her she says "I take a bite, then have (fill in the blank with desired snack)"!
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