Lydia Lately

It's been a while since I've posted about either child, so here goes.

Ready for her first day of nursery November 20th 2011. She loves it!!

"Make a funny face!" Her classic look.

This is the day she had her "18" month doctor appointment,1/13/2011. We were a couple months behind because things got thrown off with the move and then the holidays. At that appointment she weighed 24 pounds 13 ounces and was 2 feet and 8.5 inches tall. Technically that means she shrunk one inch since November, but it was her first time being measured standing up so it was a more accurate measurement than before when they would measure her lying down when she was all squirmy. That puts her in the 44th percentile for weight and the 51st percentile for height.

She's developed an attachment to several stuffed animals. Bo Bo (The monkey, she still calls all monkeys "Bo Bo" after the Bo Bo Brothers on Go Diego Go) Bunny, Bear, and Doll are her friends right now. She has to sleep with ALL of them and sometimes they tend to take over, as witnessed in this photo.

Her hair is FINALLY starting to grow out a little and get quite a bit thicker. This causes some great bedhead hair to happen. It looks like this almost every morning :)

How can you not love that face! ;)

This girl LOVES to dance! Every time Robert plays the piano she gets her groove on. Her favorite is Billy Joel, just like her daddy :)

I am amazed at how many words Lydia is learning and using. Her vocabulary increases every day. Here is a list I made for Robert's Mom/family to reference while we were on the cruise 2 months ago.

“See Yo” = Cereal     “Ba” or “Baff” = Bath     “Noll” = Milk, sounds a lot like “No”, but she’ll usually sign with it     “Bee fa ohls” or “Wee a wee wohls” or something similar = Pizza rolls, says this high pitched     “Dah” = Her doll     “Buhr” = Book, sounds like bird     “Hab eh”/“Hab um” = Have it/have some     “Bo bo” = Her monkey     “Ooo Ah Aaah” = She’ll say this and point to the TV. It means she wants Diego, sometimes it also means Dora     “Poopy” = She usually says this before she poops. Or she’ll say it because we just changed Mary’s diaper and she wants hers changed too, whether she really needs it or not. Sometimes she gets really insistent about it so we’ll lay her down, open her diaper, and close it right back up. That usually satisfies her     “Han” = Hands, she wants her hands washed or wiped, or she wants you to put whatever you have in her hand     “Beh” or “Breh” or “Bed” = Bread     “Wee” = Swing or slide     “Wah” = Walk     “Wa Wah” = Water     “Joosh” = Juice     “Bay” or “Bay uh” = Blanket     “Sna” or “Nack” or “Snack” = Fruit snacks

Other words that you can probably guess what they mean: “Happy” “Nigh nigh” “Baby” “More/Moh” “No Mine”

Like I said, this is a list from 2 months ago, and I'm amazed at how much she's learned and improved since then already. I'd say she has at least double the vocabulary, and her pronunciation of most of the words that were in this list is much better. Like she says "Pizza rolls" instead of "Bee fa ohls" etc. She's also to the point that she will repeat almost anything we say as long as we say one word at a time, so she's been saying our blessings on the food and her bedtime prayers. It's so much fun! She's also recognizing her shapes and some colors, numbers, and letters. It's so fun to watch her learn so much!

She's growing up way too fast! She's a full out toddler, complete with a usual bump or two and a little food or something on her face, despite my best efforts to keep her face clean :) She's starting to develop all sorts of sass and mischievousness which keep me on my toes and sometimes make me want to yank my own hair out, but at the end of the day I thank Heavenly Father for every day that I'm blessed to be her mother. There is no greater calling!