Lili,
Some small things before I forget:
Just a minute ago you were standing in your room in pig pajamas. You picked up your mini play tin tea cup and your plastic animal zebra. You put the teacup over the zebra’s head and said, “Zeeba…Sip…Ahhhhhh” – Ahhh being the sound your father taught you (ahem) after taking a frosty drink of something. You are cute.
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This morning at breakfast you were seated at your new mini table and chairs set from IKEA. We are trying to teach you to sit properly for meals and gearing you up for snack time at preschool. So far so good. This morning you got very frustrated though because you wanted something more to eat. But sometimes I think you forget you are able to communicate because you made almost a baby fussing sound, pounded on the table and at an ear piercing decibel yelled ‘more’ in Spanish, “MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!” several times. Finally I broke through the trance of yells and said, “Que mas Lili?” (ps – for any Spanish speakers reading this I am sorry for my lame Spanish) to which you stared at me blankly and with a long pause said clear as day…’cereal’.
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Currently you LOVE necklaces which you call ‘necks’. Every day you want to choose one from ‘a selection’ of junk jewelry I’ve started collecting from various Brooklyn stoop sales. If you don’t like the suggestion I present you yell ‘NO NECK!!!!!’ until given another choice. Diva in the making. Sigh.
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You are really into monsters lately. We were reading a picture book the other night that had various photos associated with letters. M was for monster and as a little prank I yelled MONSTERS!!! when we got to it and then got big eyes and in a low tone said with a shudder – ‘scary‘. Despite jumping ten feet in the air when I yelled monsters you became totally OBSESSED with monsters. You even pulled out a big book of monsters that you had ignored to date that dear friends from France gave us and wanted to go through each page with me yelling MONSTERS…giving a shudder and with big eyes saying in a low tone – ‘scary‘. You now partake when getting to that part of the book. Your eyes get big and you yell ‘MONO!!!!!!!!” and say some version of ’scary’. Then you laugh and move on.
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THINGS YOU CURRENTLY LOVE:
Spinach. Can’t get enough. Necklaces. Watching a random mix of You Tube videos with Dad on the iphone in bed in the early morning. You tiny doll stroller with a straw purse slung on the back. Your pink bean bag. Digging with a shovel in dirt or sand. Rocks. Climbing up stairs on your own. Wearing hats. Umbrellas. Milk. Rubbing your Tin Tin stuffed animal dog Snowy on your nose – but just his ears. Talking (screaming) on the phone when I call someone and you want to say hello. Putting your dolls ‘Nigh Nigh’ with a blanket over them. Actually you do this to cell phones and other random objects too now that I think of it.
THINGS YOU CURRENTLY HATE:
Getting dressed. Getting your diaper changed. Getting in your stroller. Getting books read to you – you want to hold them (see any control issue patterns here?!) Meat. Any form – any kind – never liked it – never show signs of this changing. Don’t like it when things are closed that you can’t open but you know have the ability to open (jar with lid, etc.) Yogurt.
