Jane-Bug turned 21 months on the 20th, but I haven’t been online much the past two weeks, so I didn’t do an update. I’m determined to catch up today, even if it takes me all day! So. We were starting to wonder about her verbal development, but she’s babbling quite a bit. She repeats any word–dinosaur, pin-cess, tRee, etc–but allegedly has not said Grandma or Grandpa to Grandma and Grandpa Muller yet. Her favorite word is No, said with a long whine. It’s usually the first thing she says to me when I come in to get her in the morning. Either that, or Poopy! She’s quite diligent about telling us when she needs a diaper change, so I’m seriously going to strip both the little girls next week and do a potty boot camp for both in the backyard until at least one of them is reliably out of diapers.
Janie definitely gets unwrapping Christmas presents. She’s really fighting the high chair and just prefers to sit at the table with the big kids. I might just give up and get rid of the high chair when we get home. She still only has about a 20 minute attention span with a movie, and she loves popcorn. She loves to brush her teeth and doesn’t mind me pulling her hair back anymore (just pulls out her ponytail when she’s throwing a fit). She’s entering the lovely stage of temper tantrums for such provocations as handing her milk she she asks for milk, getting her out of her high chair when she asks to get out, giving her Blankie when she reaches for Blankie, and picking her up when she asks to be picked up. You know, the hardcore mean stuff.
She’s been SO picky this trip, but she sure loves Christmas cookies, chocolates, candy canes, and cheesecake. She’s basically been surviving on sweets with a tiny bit of blueberries and yogurt every few days and a couple sweet potatoes over the past week. Oh, and popcorn. Fortunately she drinks milk and loves her multivitamin, and she’s a fourth child, so I’m not sweating it right now.
She’s very attached to her Blankie and is pleased as punch to have a Tib doll so that she doesn’t have to steal Betsy or Tacy from her sisters anymore.
