I’m not going to be blogging on Tuesdays and Thursdays this summer, but I had to make an exception for Susanna’s 14 month birthday!
Kids change so gradually that moms don’t notice, but the other day I watched a Christmas video and noticed that Susie was sitting still in Grandma’s lap the whole time. Ha ha ha. That doesn’t happen anymore! The hardest thing about traveling with Q is that she can’t sit still for 30 seconds, let alone for hours. Every waking minute, she wants to move, move, move.
Her bow legs and pigeon toed-walk really seem to be more obvious. I need to get her in to the doctor to make sure we don’t need to do physical therapy or something.
She’s starting to talk! Besides the mamamama and dadadada (which don’t always correspond to the proper parent), she’s saying Hi, Oh!, and No. No usually means yes. She has finally given in and started signing “please” (it was a huge battle of wills to get her to do this!). When she doesn’t know the word (which is most of the time), she starts shrieking. We hear a lot of shrieks these days.
And she’s flirting with giving up the morning nap. She can make it through until noon, albeit crabby for that last hour, but she still only takes a 2-3 hour afternoon nap and ends up extra crabby in the evening. If I put her down for a morning nap and let her sleep as long as she wants, she’ll sleep 2 or more hours but then not do a good afternoon nap. So I’m at that fun stage of needing to put her down for an hour or less in the morning just to keep her cheerful. On the positive side, all the travel seems to have messed with her schedule so that she’s sometimes sleeping in until almost 8! That is bizarre and wonderful, especially since the kids seem to sleep in later when she does.
She has figured out how to turn around in a circle. Since her big sister’s favorite thing to do these days is dancing, Susie dances all the time, too!
Susanna is really getting into the play kitchen. She loves pushing around the shopping cart and stroller, and she loves pulling things out of the kitchen and pretending to eat them. She also likes pulling out cords from electronic equipment all over the house. She is something of a terror.
I love her! She and Willy could make quite a pair some day–though he’s not walking, he’s sharing MANY of the same traits! Tonight we were having dinner guests, and to keep him out of trouble while we waited for them to arrive, one of us had to be holding him. Otherwise it was one thing after another. And then even when holding him, he almost knocked a picture off the wall squirming to get down. I wish I had his energy!