I wrote in my journal
Lily is such a joy! We have been having lots of fun together. She has added much more to her vocabulary, such as “cow” and (some form of) “pajama time” when I read her books. We recently taught her some songs and she loves them. She knows the motions to Itsy Bitsy Spider and she sings along to that and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Of course, when I say she sings along I mean that she’ll start off or end each phrase with the correct word or sounds, and you can tell she’s trying to sing the right notes. No matter how many times we sing them, she claps and says “yay” when we’re done. We usually have to sing them multiple times as she loves it. The good thing is that I can use the songs to calm her down when she’s upset, or at least distract her for a minute. Lil has become very picky lately with her food. She is very good at telling me “no” when she doesn’t like my selection for her. It’s just hard to know what I should be feeding her and what she’ll eat. She is also very interested in feeding herself. She gets upset if I don’t let her have the spoon/ fork. She is actually pretty good at using her utensils. She’ll even go so far as to use a fork on her cheese- or cinnamon puffs, which is quite amusing. She has also started to put herself down for naps sometimes, which is also pretty funny to see.
It is getting harder to take her to the store with me. She refuses to sit up front in the cart and is still too skinny for the cart straps to prevent her from standing up in the front, so I just let her ride in the back. She can’t climb out but can grab almost anything she sees. She says hi to everyone who walks by :). She is very good at recognizing her regular food, so when we walk past things like the the Goldfish display, she’ll start pleading “fish, fish, fish” and so on. Or when I put food in the cart she’ll give it to me to open so she can eat it and gets frustrated when I don’t give it to her. The best, though, is when she keeps trying to bite into any piece of produce I put into the cart. It’s funny to look away and back again and see a chunk taken out of the avocado :)
Weekend trip to Grandpa’s house
Play time
Putting herself down to sleep
