Addelyn at 21 Months

Another month has flow by and Addie is now 21 months old. Actually, she will be 22 months next week! Her vocabulary has grown like crazy the past month and she says new words everyday. She can now repeat 3-4 word phrases and sentences, and she also says 2-3 word sentences on her own. In the past month she has gotten much better with mulit-syllable words. She now calls Dakota "Kota" rather than "Ko."  Last month I posted that she said "grosh" for groceries, and now she can fully and understandably say "groceries."

The other day I was reading her a book called Carl Goes Shopping, which is one of her favorite books about a dog who goes shopping. I read the title, and she said, "at Target!"  I repeated, "Carl is going shopping at Target?"  And she said, "Sure!"  Then she said, "Groceries, get groceries. Publix."  Because on Saturdays we usually go to Target and then get groceries at Publix. She is a little smartie!

She is very perceptive about her surroundings and can usually identify where she is if you ask her, "Where is Addie right now?"  She will say Grandma Julie's house, Grandma Kristi's house (she calls them by their full names, i.e., Grandma Kristi, since she has two grandmas living here), park, Target, Publix, museum, library, music class, etc.

She has been attending a music class once a week and absolutely loves it.  On Tuesday nights I ask her what she did today, and she will respond, "Music class."  I ask her what she did at music class and she will say dance, sing, play toys, instruments, and march.  She loves to march!  When she marches she keeps her legs straight and kicks them forward like a toy soldier, rather than bending her knees.  It's too cute.

Everyday when Jay or I get home, she hugs us and says, "Awww.  Missed you."  She usually makes some kind of craft each day, and she loves to give it to one of us saying, "Daddy's or mommy's picture."  She is really into possessives right now...daddy's shoes, mama's car, Addie's cup, Kota's toy. It seems like everything belongs to someone! 

She used to say "sure" or "no" when answering a yes or no question. Now she responds to almost any question with, "sure nope" all run together like it's one word.  She has gotten so used to saying sure-nope that she pretty much automatically says that no matter what she is asked.

Before her nap today I was sneezing a lot, blowing my nose, and rubbing my eyes. She came up to me and said, "Mama, feel better.  Hugs." and gave me a hug.  Grandma had told her to say that to me earlier in the morning, and she remembered several hours later when I started sneezing again.

Another big change this month is that Addie got her first big girl bed!  She is still waking up several times a night, and she was getting so upset if she was in her crib crying and we didn't get there right away. So we thought she might like the freedom of a big girl bed better than her crib.  She had a rough night's sleep (well, rougher than usual) the first night, but now she loves her bed.  It's nice for mom and dad too, because if she wakes up at night she can just get up and come into our room if she wants to.  She usually doesn't want to get in bed with us though...she wants mama to take her back to her room to rock. :)

We have started potty training to some degree.  She likes to sit on her big girl potty chair and has actually gone several times.  One day we tried having her wear underwear all day (other than nap time) and had her try to potty every 30 minutes, and she only had 2 accidents all day.  But then the next day she wasn't at all interested in her potty so we went back to diapers.  Now she will try a couple times a day, but I still don't think she's quite ready to do all out potty training.

One of her favorite things to play right now is makeup. Every morning when I start getting ready for the day, she asks for my makeup and then sits on the floor and opens each piece and lays them in a line. All the powders, eye shadows, etc.  Then she will pick up each one, put some on her finger, and then wipe it on her cheek. Then she closes that piece, put it back in my makeup bag, and move on to the next item until she goes through the entire line.  She is a little OCD like that. Then she will ask me to open the lip gloss and she will put that on her lips. Then she will pick up the mascara and say, "eyelashes, eyelashes.  Mama do it, mama do it.  Messy, messy."  Because I've told her that the mascara is messy and only mama can out that one on her. I still just pretend to put it on and I'm waiting for the day she realizes that and insists than I actually put mascara on her eyelashes.

She is starting to be a somewhat picky eater. She still will eat all kinds of food (other than most vegetables), but she very particular ideas about what she wants and doesn't want on any particular day. She usually will pick out one thing we are having for dinner and only eat that. Today we went out for breakfast and all she would eat was sausage. For lunch all she had was grapes. Hopefully she will eat more for her afternoon snack and dinner. She eats like a little bird, other than at grandmas' houses, where she gets chips, freezies, and all kinds of other fun foods that we don't have at home.

She also loves puppets right now, especially her Lampchop and Nemo stuffed animal puppets. She loves it when Jay or I make them "talk" to her. Tonight we are going to the South Florida Museum for family night and a puppet show. She will love it!