Groooowwwwing!

Someone around these parts is growing up quickly!

She's climbing...

She moves that step stool and climbs up on it.  The other day she started shrieking in the bathroom so I hustled in and she'd climbed on the lid of the potty and was "stuck" - too afraid to come back down.

She LOVES bath time.  When I get her towel from it's hook she hustles to the far side of the tub in "hiding."

Her receptive language is phenomenal.  She understands no, come, go bye bye, get your shoes, diaper time, ni-night, and more...and of course the really important things like "where's your jelly roll?"

She's struggling to express herself with words.  They are all in there, I'm sure, but as such she's one and can't file them out quite yet.  We'd had quite a bit of this lately...

...when things didn't go her way.  I've started using single word signs and letting her watch a little more of her Baby Signing Time and she really is using it more, especially just this week.

Today's favored sign has been "more."  If I offer a bite of something she doesn't want she shakes her head or turns away.  If I say the item she wants, or hold it up, she signs "more."  Smart-cake!

In this video I was pleased to see her sign "more" and follow it with the sign for "eat/bites/food". 

I'm trying to be very conscious about naming items, colors, counting things out with her, etc.  All these things remind me that she's quickly becoming a big girl.

 

 

(a sometimes silly big girl!)

 

Love you, Sugar Bean!