I am so thankful for Amelie. We get to know a little more of her personality with each passing day as she grows more comfortable with us. It’s definitely been different this time around adding a toddler to our family instead of an infant. Here’s a two month update:
- She can understand most commands which shows that her receptive learning is doing great.
- She can do somersaults already.
- She LOVES music. Loves to dance and sing.
- The cast doesn’t slow her down. She has some frustration, but basically she is just adapting to it.
- She loves to make everything a game.
- Her laugh is adorable.
- We are seeing her smile more and more as she becomes more content with us.
- She has learned not to pinch or hit in frustration. She still wants to some days, but she mostly has it trained out of her now.
- She sleeps all night and we are so grateful.
- She will let us read books to her now. In the beginning she would get angry and try to slam the book shut.
- She is getting good with a spoon and fork. We try to practice every day.
Here are a few things she can say (or at least we understand her):
- “Hi Dada!” (her only sentence and it’s crystal clear. Also said with great excitement when he gets home from the gym or work)
- More
- Eat
- issue (for tissue)
- Baa boo (diaper)
- Jie Jie (big sister)
- Yo yo ( for yogurt)
- Up (sounds like puh)
- Help (sounds like Up, but she uses a different hand motion)
- “bess you” (bless you – she does it to herself after she sneezes)
- Thank you
- Down
- fuf fuf (crawling around like a dog, mimicking her sister)
- Chic (for cheek)
- Turtle
- Rub Rub (she does this when I put mederma on a scar each day)
- Foot
- Ga ge (for again; most often said when she wants to read a book or be tickled again)
- Tree
- Wa wa (water)
- See see…see see…see see See SEE (she constantly says “see” now to get you to look at random things, and it will get louder until you look)
- She doesn’t say “yes” or “no”, but nod or shakes her head instead.
- Mmm Mmm Mmm (said sometimes while she’s eating)
- Bubble (crytal clear, but I don’t think she knows what it means)
- Uh oh! (said sometimes when she has an accident or drops something)
- Whoa! (said sometimes when she falls down)
- She says various things along with us while we read her stories, like “moo”, “faster faster”, “baa”, and so on.
- Ma Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (usually when she needs me to comfort her)