Why I write this...

This blog helps me keep track of EV's accomplishments and random funnies:

She can now identify her belly, hair, nose, mouth and eyes.  I try not to ask for her eyes very often though since she has a tendency to gouge her eyes with her fingers.  She confuses ears with hair right now.

Her imagination has increased and she will play "bed time" with EV Bear and her blankets.  She will put EV Bear in bed, give her Oscar (yes, my child chose an Oscar the Grouch puppet as her sleep thing), then place blankets over the bear.  Sometimes she will curl up with the bear.  We are trying to figure out if she is sleepy when she plays this game and maybe this is her way of telling us she's ready for bed.

Bath time is a major favorite still.  She enjoys playing with cups in the tub the most, filling them up and dumping them out and sometimes even dumping them on herself, look at me, then clap because she's rinsing herself off like mommy does.  She will grab the soap and pretend to rub soap all over her face, but yet when I actually rub soap all over her face, she is not a fan.

Lately I will cuddle in bed with her in the mornings and while she used to sleep on my chest, she is getting too big and too long to fit anymore.  So now she curls up next to me, sometimes wanting me to use her little pillow, sometimes not, sometimes wanting her arm around me, sometimes not, sometimes wanting to lie still...sometimes not.  When she's ready, she goes to the door and plays with the door knob until we get up and let her into the living room.

She will consistently say "Thank You" when we give her something...and she also says it when she gives us something.

At Lowe's yesterday, she decided to help sort strips of wood by taking them off the shelf and placing them in the aisle.  I'm sure she thought she was very helpful.

Kisses and hugs are extremely common and the night time routine is filled with them.  After her bath, Ed brings her to me all wrapped in a towel.  We will read a few books, sometimes just leafing through the pages and other times reading the same ones over and over...and over.  I will sing them to keep my own sanity but she doesn't like when I read them backwards, I think it confuses her.  After that I will brush her hair if she'll let me, mostly she brushes her own hair. Then it's off to a diaper change, outfit time and teeth brushing.  We sing the same song with a few changes from time to time:

This is the way we brush the teeth, brush the teeth, brush the teeth.  This is the way we brush the teeth, right before the bed time.  Brush the bottoms, brush the top, brush the sides, brush the other side, this is the way we brush the teeth, right before the bed time.

Every now and then the brush comes out and winds up in her eyeball somehow, so we'll add that to the song.  Or the lyric "brush the closed mouth baby, time to cooperate" will need to be added.  Seriously, singing is the only way to stay sane.

Then I come in with the same 3 songs every night.  Let Me Call You Sweetheart - she will put her head on my shoulder at this point and look into the mirror, EV EV Give Me Your Answer Do (not really the title I'm sure), and You Are My Sunshine where I walk her into the bedroom.  Now, without prompting, she will give me a kiss, a hug then lean for the bed where she gets either Oscar, Polar Bear or EV Bear, and her many blankets.  I love night time routine.

Ed just called me to tell me he had the TV on the Spanish channel and she was going to town dancing, shaking her hands and everything.  She LOVES dancing.