Our little one turned 20 months recently, and she’s changing EVERY day now. Yesterday she made big progress in showing her problem solving skills. Paul and Lydia were playing in our room, when Lydia asked Paul to help her on the bed. He said, “You can do it yourself, you don’t need my help.” So, she thought a bit, put her finger up by her face and said “dtoo, be back”. She went to the living room and promptly came back with her “dtoo” (stool) in her hand. She placed it by the bed, stepped on it, and got up on the bed! Amazing how she put all that together so easily. What a smarty pants!
In the last month she’s also made great strides in learning her alphabet. She’s very interested in letters and points them out on signs, on cars, on license plates, in the parking lot, at the park, etc. She knows about 12 of them (A, B, C, D, F, H, I, M, O, P, Q, Y, Z), and recites the alphabet with us. She’ll either repeat the letter we just said or she’ll say the following letter! Yes, the following letter! Amazing. She’s also learned to recognize certain words, like “mom”, “dad”, and “lydia”.
She’s talking much more now. She’ll comment on things and point things out. Some phrases and words she says are: “All done,” “Be back”, “bye bye”, “milk”, “mas”, “oatmeal”, “bed”, “bath”, “heavy”, “Enom” (Elmo), “keykey” (cookie, as in monster or the sweet), etc. There’s also the cute, sing-songy, high pitched “thea it is!” which melts your heart. And the sweetly toned “daaaaaadeee”, “baaaabyyyy”, “Eeeeenom”, when she’s looking for her dad, or her doll, or Elmo. She’s been putting a few words together for a few months now. She’s also very pleased when we understand what she’s saying and frustrated when we don’t.
I know everyone always says this, but it’s crazy how quickly they grow up!
