Late last spring Katie started singing her ABCs (or "ABCDEFG" as she calls it.) She sings them all the time in the car, when she eats, and while she's playing. But if we ask her to sing or if she sees the video camera, she won't do it.
She's also learned to sing "Jesus Loves Me" and "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" all by herself and likes to sing along to "The Wheels on the Bus" (she calls it "Wheels"), "Itsy Bitsy Spider" ("Spider"), Barney, and "Old MacDonald" ("EIEIO"). She's starting to learn more songs too.
When she eats lunch or dinner she helps me say her blessing.
I finally got video! It's kind of long. I had to set the camera on the counter, start recording, then I walked away from the camera and started cooking while I got her to sing. She had no idea I was taping her. :)
If you can't view this video, click here.
She counts to 10 (in English) and today she said "quatro", "cinqo", and "ocho". I guess they're counting in spanish at school too.
She makes a really cute surprised face.
Sometimes she'll smile when I ask her to.
She's learning colors and can sometimes tell us her colors, but not consistently yet. She loves purple and most of the time that's her 1st answer when we ask her what color something is. She's getting better and better at naming colors correctly every day.
She's talking really good. Saying sentences, answering questions, and communicating with us. It's nice now that she can tell us what she wants or needs. A few weeks ago she's had an allergic reaction to a bug bite or something and both of her eyes swelled completely shut! (I'll post about all that later.) But she was able to tell us "eye hurt" and "itchy" to let us know when they were bothering her.
She helps us pick up her toys most nights before she goes to bed and helps me put her laundry away. She knows what dresser drawer her shorts, swimsuits, and bloomers go in and she puts those away for me.
She LOVES school, reading, Elmo, Dora, and cheese!
Her favorite thing to play with is the cups and lids from her kitchen set. She unstacks and restacks them. She lines them up in a row on the coffee table and then stacks them back up.
She's becoming more interested in her baby dolls too. She gives them hugs and kisses and walks them around in their stroller.
She sleeps with her taggie and paci every night and still loves her Boppo (the stuffed hippo Andy got her at the hospital when she was born) and her Lamb. When we get her up in the morning, we tell her to put her paci and taggie in her crib and she throws them in no problem and leaves them there until she goes back to sleep in tehre.
At 23 months old she weighed 23 pounds at the ER.
When she takes her bath, she loves for me to leave the water on and she uses her cup that I rinse her hair with to rinse herself off. She loves taking baths!
She's starting to recognize her school friends by name. When I pick her up from school she says, "Bye bye friends. Bye Bye teachers." and occasionally says "Bye bye Care" (Claire) and "Bye bye Ian" (Ethan).
At church in August they were learning that "God gives us friends." Now she says "God gives friends" all the time. When we ask her "Who made you?" (or mommy, daddy, animals, etc) she answers "God!"
When we tell her to close her eyes, she squeezes them shut real tight.
I'm sure I'll think of more later, but that's all I can think of for now.
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