Julia just said “I love you” to me for the first, second, third, AND FOURTH time while hugging tight to my arm and patting it.
October 26, 2009
and the words, they keep on coming
A few mornings ago, when I had almost finished my morning coffee, Julia asked for a “nanny” (banana). So I set my coffee cup down on the table where she was playing with her tea set to turn around and grab a banana, right? When I turned back around, Julia had taken my coffee cup, poured some into her tea cup (without making a mess!) and was sitting there drinking it, saying “coffee! coffee!”
This girl is amazing. She is so incredibly smart! She has a book of animals. There are 26 and she can tell you what 24 of them are. She knows all of her colors. She can tell you what a square, triangle, circle and line are and can draw a line and circle when asked.
She can tell you which book she wants you to read now, whether it’s Madeline, Listening Walk (Walk), Princess stories (Peencess), Stone Soup (Soup), The Big Red Barn (Barn), Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (Star), or her “Ay, Eee, C’s” book. Sometimes she doesn’t want you to read them, sometimes she would rather read them herself:
She can tell you want movie or show she wants to watch: Garfield, Bell (Tinkerbell), King/Hoggle/Sarah (The Labyrinth), Elmo, Manny (Handy Manny), Movers (Imagination Movers), Mickey, etc. etc. I won’t list them all because I’m sure you don’t want to read a long paragraph of movie titles.
We got her a potty and she’ll sometimes sit on it fully-clothed and say “pee pee! poo poo!”
I let her pick what color shirt she wants to wear in the morning. And she takes her baby doll and feeds it with a bottle. Or opens her little couch and puts the baby on it saying “seep, baby seep” or “poo poo, diaper.” Did I mention that her baby must have a diaper on at all times? yeah. And when Julia poos, she asks for a wipe to clean her doll’s diaper.
She’s starting to learn her letters and her numbers. She’s only just 18 months old! I didn’t know a 17 month old could do all this. The Other Julia’s mom and dad wish that their Julia could talk like her. We have a wiz kid.
Another of her favorite pass times is to sit in the chair in front of this computer and watch a slide show of herself at Hilton Head.
October 4, 2009
pumpkin and apple pickin
Today, Julia got to go apple and pumpkin picking for the first time. She had so much fun. More photos to come. Until then, here is Julia helping (hhhehpan) take the pumpkin guts out.
September 30, 2009
Who’s a big girl??
Today Julia turned 17 months old. She looks more like 17 years old. I just had to share. This is from the playground this morning.
September 29, 2009
Who is this toddler and what have you done with my baby?
What a month.
Julia’s vocabulary has totally skyrocketted. Get this. She loves to play rock band on the Wii. She either sits at the drums and plays or she steals the microphone, puts it to her mouth and sings “doo doo doo.” I’m hoping to get it on film tonight.
This month we took Julia to the beach for the first time. And she LOVES it. She wants to go back to the ocean so much. She saw turtles and rode in the elevator (ahvah) everyday.
Now that we’re back at home, she asks to go “shoom, mommy, car” so we can go to the “mall! horsey!” and ride the carousel. She has a favorite horse on the carousel. Now, when we go to the pay area in the mall, she’ll be in there for a couple of minutes, and then she makes a beeline for her stroller and spends the next 15 minutes climbing in and out of it. Then she wants to go on the horsey again.
She’s got all of her one-year molars now.
Oh, and this is BIG. I can finally let her climb all over the jungle gym at the playground and MOMMY DOESN’T FREAK OUT ANYMORE. Oh happy day.
Also, last night when I went to pole dancing class…. SHE DIDN’T CRY!
I would put more photos in, but they’re ALL from the beach. If you haven’t seen her first haircut, check this out:
Adorable right?
This is my favorite current thing, Julia’s version of the word “cold”:
