Lillian seems to be at a stage where everything is so amazing to her, she is starting to really be able to communicate well and is learning how to interact with her environment and get results. She is learning how things work and can follow commands. This is a really cool time. Every day I am amazed by something new and I want to jot a few down so I never forget. I wish I was better with the video camera.
One thing we were both amazed by is we were in the spare bedroom and there was a tub of moisturizer that belongs in my bathroom drawer (they cant have latches so I keep safe things in there but she can reach if she stands on her tippie toes and fishes her hand around in there), I had earlier opened the bathroom drawer and found a dirty balled up sock of Jared's in there---I guess she decided to swap (she loves getting into dirty clothes and carrying around random items). So we were all three in the spare bedroom and I said, "Lillian this is mommy's will you put it back in the drawer" she picked it up, left the room walked down hall and into the bathroom, then I heard the drawer open and the tub made a loud noise as it fell to the bottom of the drawer. I was amazed, Jared and I looked at each other with our mouths open. She is so smart, she 'gets' so much of what we say, more than we even realize--obviously. Since then I have repeated this in similar scenarios and she can pick things up, throw them away, put them back etc, its amazing to me. She has even picked up dishes she was playing with or that she 'found' and took them to the trash can, threw them in and said "ah don". Now I look in the trash before it gets tied up!
What a devilish grin, eh?
She is also barking like a dog these days. If you say, "Lillian what does a doggie say" she will say "uff uff". However, if you say what does a cow, cat, or any other animal say you will get the same answer. Recently Jared has started playing the animal sounds game with her on the way home from daycare/work he will tell her cows say moo and then she will proceed to bark louder and more adamantly each time, as if she is saying, "NO! uff uff DAD!!" It is all very cute.
She loves feeding the dogs as well (dogs love it, mommy hates it)
Babies are big on her radar right now. She loves pictures of babies and looking at other kids. She will flip through a magazine and point out every picture of every child that is under say 5-6 and call them a baby, if she comes across a baby large enough she will point out there eyes, ears, nose etc to you as well (though she still calls all of them eyes 99% of the time).
Some of her favorite things (besides dogs):
Fruit: she's absolutely in love with grapes right now and will eat a TON of them
Hot Tea (anything in a coffee cup): she always wants whats in our cups so I made the mistake of letting her try it thinking she would hate it, wrong, now she cries wanting it or Daddy's coffee
Her Sally the spinning alphabet spider which she bangs away on in the car
Driving around town with her window down so she can see
Saying "ha" (hi) and waving to random people in meijer
telling you "bye-bye" and blowing kisses even if she is just leaving the room
saying "all done" when she doesnt want any more to eat and dumping the bowl just so she can say all done
smacking her own head with whatever random object she has in her hand and saying "oww" and laughing and making you laugh
bumping head to head with Daddy and laughing hysterically (mommy doesnt participate in this game)
laying in her crib when she should be napping (as she is right now) and saying all sorts of random babblings with real words and barking intertwined
watching the kids get on the school bus at daycare and waving like mad while blowing them kisses (evidentially the other kids on the school bus are now waving at her as well)
Her favorite thing to carry around the house is clothing, preferrably a sock or something with a zipper, if she has 'found it' then it's even better. Her favorite hobby is getting into anything she is not supposed to. She LOVES to try and walk in her daddy's shoes, she will stand with her shoes on in both of his shoes and try to walk, when it wont work she will take one of her feet out and 'walk' around the house with her foot in one of his shoes, sliding it bit by bit.
Guilty as charged
We also have another computer goo-ru on the way, as you will see below she gets a real kick out of 'helping' dad. He has taken the cord off a keyboard and he will place it in front of his and she uses that while he reaches around her and uses the real one. You would think she would just bang on the keyboard but she actually prances her fingers all around it pushing buttons (mimicing typing) and if you let her she will put her other hand on the mouse and move it all around. Oh boy!
This was a few months ago when Jared first tried this, now she loves headphones!
She is very into climbing right now, she will climb anything, a toy left on the floor that she can step in, a toybox, potty chair, even the groceries! We went shopping and were bringing in the food and she decided to 'climb' the canned goods.
Her favorite places to play are closets, particularly my closet since it is nice and big, it has a window and there are lots of baskets of socks, underwear etc that she can push around, throw all clothes out of, sit in, pull all shoes out of the rack and just generally make it look like a tornado hit the closet.
Going outside, especially for a walk, is probably her #1 favorite thing to do right now. If she even sees me go towards the back door (where stroller is kept) she will start getting all excited and says "wak, wak wak!" She loves the walks and never seems to tire of them (nor do the dogs). One day she was sick with an ear infection and recovering from the stomach flu while simutaneously teething two molars (fun fun fun), I also was recovering from stomach flu and she was so crabby, she saw the coat that we always wear on walks (big and warm since its still cold out here) and she went absolutely bonkers with her wak wak wak pleas so I decided maybe she would go to sleep and we would go. We got all ready which is an ordeal in and of itself, went out on the porch and it was RAINING. Well not going at that point was less appealing than the rain so I covered her in a blanket (in addition to hat, gloves, coat) and put the rain guard down and we walked in the rain for over an hour because as I had hoped she went right to sleep. Jared called while we were out to check on his sick girls and wondered if I had lost my mind. She enjoyed it and it did stop raining, eventually.
Well, thats about all for this edition of Lillian's World.
