I know its been a while since I posted...something I really didn't know about blogs before I started this one - they kind of take a lot of time. Between thinking of posts, taking pictures, editing pictures, writing the post, editing the post, posting, answering comments, looking for ways to improve the website, it gets to be a little time consuming. And, I had a one year old who didn't sleep consistently. Which means, I was way more exhausted than I realized. Which means I had no energy for doing things like blogging. Thank God the sleep thing looks like it might FINALLY be starting to be a normal and consistent thing. That means I might actually get to start posting a little more often than once every 5 months! Hurray!
Sweetpea turn 16 months yesterday! The saying, "The days are long, the years short," is definitely holding true for me so far. Some days and stages seem like they are taking forever, but when I look back over the time since Sweetpea was born I can't believe it has been 16 months already! She is growing and changing so fast right now and I have been terrible about recording the milestones she is hitting.
Right now she is really taking off with her walking running and talking. She knows a jillion animal noises like bear, elephant, dog, cat, duck, chicken, lion, cow, sheep, and several others. Her favorite word is "up." She says it for any sort of movement that she needs help with, whether she wants picked up, put down, helped into a chair, or for someone else to hold her. She gives kisses to EVERYONE and everything, but rarely hugs.
She is really starting to listen and understand what I am saying to her, which also means she is starting to deliberately NOT do what I am asking her to do. She definitely has a mind of her own and a temper to match -anyone that knows her mom and dad aren't too surprised about this as she gets it from both sides! Tonight she pointed to her crib asking to go to bed for the first time ever. She likes to hold my face with both her little hands and duck her head down and smile at me like she is telling me a secret and then she pulls me toward her so she can kiss me - adorable.
My very very favorite thing that is developing in her personality is that she loves to read. Every day she goes to wherever her books are and brings one - or four - to me, sits in my lap, and we read each one, sometimes over and over.
Last night she pulled her chair over to the window, and this morning she grabbed one of her favorite books and hopped up to peruse for a few minutes.
Engrossing....
"Mom!!! Why do you always have to interrupt me!!!"
I am so excited to have long afternoons of reading with my bookworm!
