She is still not saying a ton. A whine and a point, and siblings or Mommy will get her what she wants. We need to work on making her speak more. She does babble quite a bit, so I’m not too worried yet. And her favorite words are NO!, shoes, and cheese. Lately she’s been sortof on a hunger strike, refusing all the favorites and just picking the almond butter off the sandwich and leaving the bread. Fortunately, she drinks a LOT of milk (and yes, I try to feed her first and only give the milk as a last resort). I did get a couple cookies down her the other day (desperate times call for desperate measures!), and then I left the kids with Josh and Sarah Saturday afternoon, and she wolfed down turkey bacon for dinner! Sarah always gets my kids to eat things they’d never eat for me. This week she’s also eaten lasagna, pears, and a bagel at church. Hm. Definitely a fourth child. I would never admitted publicly if Tommy’s 19 month diet had been this bad!
Janie pretty much only took one nap all week, so I think that the morning nap is officially gone. That makes life easier, schedule-wise, but is a little tricky for homeschooling. As you can see from yesterday’s pictures, she really just loves participating in whatever the big kids are doing–pattern blocks and coloring with markers or colored pencils are her favorite activities. And pulling toilet paper off of tubes.
She loves baby dolls and carries one around all the time. She is fascinated by legos and seems to be putting them in her mouth less of late. She can entertain herself happily outside for a nice long bit (like the whole time I’ve been typing this since coming in to upload her pictures). All four of her first molars are all the way in, so she has 12 beautiful teeth!
She’s been really clingy this weekend, but with all the grieving over Beverly Rose, I don’t mind holding my baby all day long.
“Hm. Definitely a fourth child.”
You DO realize that the most wonderful people in the world are fourth children, right?
By the way, have you tried offering her Spam?