On Wednesday Addie was 21 months old!! She grows and amazes us each and every day! I could never express just how much Dan and I LOVE being her parents!! She is a wonderful little girl!
What's going on at 21 months?.....
~ She loves playing outside, especially at the park. She can't get enough of the slides. Up and down she goes! She climbs around the play equipment all on her own and is very independent.
~ She can dress herself! She typically need help getting a shirt over her big head, but can dress herself otherwise. She loves the fact that she can be independent. Sometimes she comes out with a different pair of pants on if she is playing in her room!
~ Her vocabulary just grows and grows. She is such a smart little girl and I even have other people saying that to us. It makes a momma feel good to hear that about her little girl! She puts small sentences together, usually no more than three words, but she gets her point across. She points out everything to anyone who will listen to her. I don't think there are many days that go by where she doesn't surprise me with a new word she knows. She yells, "Mom, Mom, MOM!" I respond, and today she says, "look, sky!" Completely random...that's what I love about it!!
~ Everyone talks about the terrible two's and the tantrums that come with them. We defiantly have experienced some of these! MOST days Addie is a really great little girl who listens and goes an entire day without getting in trouble, but there are days that are rough...to say the least. Typically it is due to being tired, so I try my hardest to work our schedule around her nap to avoid this, but sometimes it is just impossible.
~ She is doing well with potty training. Still working on going poo on the potty, but she's got the rest down. We still have trouble sometimes when we are playing outside at a park or somewhere other than home. We also have trouble when we try to put undies on. She wets them all the time! I am not sure why, because she won't wet her pull-up, but I guess we will keep working on that! Most of the time at home I put a dress on her and let her run without any bottoms on. She loves the freedom!!
~ She is learning opposites like up/down, front/back, in/out, over/under, open/close, etc. When she would do these things I'd tell her what she was doing and she caught on pretty quickly. She especially likes the up/down when she is jumping around the house. She is always jumping and skipping everywhere we go!
~ Oh, MY. This girl LOVES her babies! I know I have said it before, but this is absolutely her favorite thing to play with. It is so adorable to watch her talk to them, and now she answers for them! I will hear her say, "Eat, baby? Yes." Like the baby is answering her. She feeds them, burps them, tends to them when they cry (or she pushes the button) and she always seems so concerned about them and their well-being. It is just amazing to see how her mind works and how much she is learning.
~ She is definitely a Momma's girl. If I am around she tends to just want her mommy (which is quite alright with me!). She is shy when strangers are around or someone she doesn't see often, but easily warms up after awhile. She typically doesn't run off without someone with her. She likes to take hands, but I have noticed these past couple of weeks she has gone a little further without someone with her. Not to the point that it makes me nervous, so she does well!
I think that is about it for updates, so here are some pictures we have taken lately. She is doing better with smiling (sometimes) because I tell her she can see the picture after we take it!
Our trip to the pool today. We had lots of family there and my cousins came with us, along with Uncle Max! I was thankful I had lots of help with Addie. She tends to wear a person out! I think she went down the slide about 15 times while we were there! We all took her down, and she absolutely LOVED the slide!! She was so brave in the water and it didn't bother her to walk to water that was shoulder deep! She also liked getting on the side of the pool and jump in!
We were also there for the penny dive! Addie had a hand full of pennies and would not give up her money! The newspaper guy wanted to take her picture, but she would not show him her pennies!
We had a blast today. I was a little crisp from the day, even after applying spf 50 a couple of times! Addie is fine, I applied spf 85 on her! We are looking forward to going back soon! Now, for a long weekend celebrating the 4th!! Have a good one!
