Susie is getting more vocal and grown-up every day. Daddy has been teaching her to count to four or five, she loves identifying body parts, and she’ll sit and read Gyo Fujikawa books forever if I just take the time to sit down with her and do it. She is trying to pedal the big kid trikes. She loves playing dolly with Sister–thank goodness they each have their own! She tells me the second she’s wet or poopy, and she insists on sitting on the training potty between every diaper change, but she has yet to have any success. I don’t really want to potty train her yet, anyway. She wants to be with me every waking moment, and she’ll stand outside the bathroom door, screaming, while I take a shower. She’s very opinionated about her clothing, preferring anything with pockets. Since acquiring a pillow a few weeks ago, she’s been going down for bed without complaint most of the time–she loves being a big kid!
Favorite phrases:
“Lionel-blanky” (her stuffed animal and blanket, which accompany her everywhere)
“purple one” (which doesn’t have anything to do with the color purple; it just generally designates which of something she wants)
“Bow, bow, bow!” (which means hair band)
“Night-night” (she goes around and gives everyone goodnight hugs and kisses)
“Holy!” (which means my ipod, which I have docked in her room these days to play Hymns for a Kid’s Heart–the first of which is “Holy, Holy, Holy”–when she goes down for naps/bed)
Favorite position (not everything Sister teaches her to do is ideal…):
