I guess it's been a while since the last post. The month 16 post was started and not finished a few weeks back and here it is. We hope to put the next one up soon. But we probably won't. So here's month 16.
Lily is turning into a doggie. She barks all the time, loves to play with our shoes, fetch them even, and just wants to play outside. The kid never stops moving.
But she does more than bark too, thankfully. She says a lot more than the 2 or 3 that she started with. Here's our list so far:
- Baby
- Cheese
- Cookie (kuh-kuh-kuh)
- Boot
- What's That? (Wuz-ah?)
- Good
- Chicken
- Mmmmm
- Woof woof
- Meow (more like raow)
- itsy (for itsy bitsy spider)
- sweet
- apple
- Gigi
- Pop
- Juice (joosh)
- cluck
- moo
- Elmo (sounds more like owl)
- Kids
- goes "ahh" after she drinks or pretends to drink
She also throws a lot of kisses, wags her finger no, knows where her belly button, noes and hair are, and likes when we sing The Itsy Bitsy Spider, The Wheels on the Bus, and When You're Happy and You Know It.
I feel like I keep on saying this and hearing from other parents and I'll continue to say this, but right now is my favorite age. I also keep saying that I don't want her to grow up, but each age gets more favoriter. She's just so much fun. She seems to really have a sense of humor and wants to make people laugh. She still loves her cardboard box, which tends to be her homebase when she wants to hide. She's also really into her books (well ripping them up and standing on them at least) and brushing her teeth. She's kind of terrible at it right now though. She likes to gnaw on it and lick it, but we figured that getting the damn thing in her mouth would be the toughest part.
In March, we got to go down to Raleigh our new Nephew, baby Benny. We thought that Lily might be excited to see a real life doll, but she didn't seem to care. We would say something along the lines of "Oooh Lily, look at the baby" and she would just blow a half-assed kiss and continue on her way. We were excited to see how she plays with her cousin Nathan too. The last few times that they got to play, she was too little to be able to keep up with him, so we thought that now that she's always on the move and trying to get into trouble, that they would be on the same page, or at least in the same book. She hasn't learned how to really share yet and she's a bit too little to be able to take any of the wild 3 year old boy roughhousing. Though if she learned anything from our weekend, it was her first lessons in self defense. They did a lot of chasing after each other. We had a lot of fun in Raleigh though, except for her horrible diaper rash as a result of her teething. I don't know when this kid will cut that out and just finish growing her damn teeth. We were even able to sneak out to the city sans kiddos and let Gigi and Grandpa Ed run around after the lunatics. Overall, we had a lot of fun hanging out with the Raleigh contingent of the family. Even the 10 hour car ride was bearable thanks to Chick Fil-A, a fast food chain that serves delightful chicken as well as provides an only slightly smelly place for kids to play.
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