I feel like Susanna is a full-blown toddler these days. She runs everywhere, as pigeon-toed as you can get. She shrieks when she doesn’t get her way and throws herself on the floor. She loves to dance around the family room with her sister. She has finally started holding my hand when we walk through parking lots.
Susie still tends to smile all the time. She says Mommy, Daddy, Iddy (=Lizzie) and Buddy (=Tommy). She says Uh-Oh! whenever anything is out of reach, and No! usually means yes. She can sometimes sign please, thank you, more, and all done. She can point to her noise, after great pains with instruction from Elizabeth. She doesn’t know any more body parts, though.
She loves to pull dvds and books off shelves, clothes out of drawers, cans out of the pantry, small pieces out of board games, and examine the contents of trash cans and toilets. She likes to help pick out her clothes, and matching her big sister is always a plus! Lately, both of them have been very into headbands and bows again. Her favorite toy is the play kitchen. Tea parties with Elizabeth are always fun. This week, she’s been cooking things and bringing them over for me to taste. She’s also a big fan of her blanky (named Pink Blanky to distinguish it from Blanky, which belongs to Elizabeth). If Daddy sits down on the floor, she immediately takes it as an invitation to grab a book and sit down in his lap to read. She doesn’t hold still for very long, though.
At the park, she loves to climb, swing, and go down slides. I think she’s eating a little more this summer, though some days, her diet consists almost completely of zucchini and grapes. We’ve discovered she loves hot dogs and will eat two in one sitting. (She also likes chips, ice cream, cookies, and most any kind of barbeque or potluck food that’s really bad for you. It’s amazing what a third child gets exposed to–my younger self would be appalled.) She’s barely drinking anything, even at bedtime, but she does have wet diapers.
She’s definitely flirting with giving up the morning nap, but it hasn’t happened much yet. She still naps a solid two hours in the afternoon and usually 12 hours overnight. She has developed the trademark Muller child “Bugs Meanie Smile,” though I think she’s taken it to a new level…
