Cecily's talking has been snowballing lately. She is just a non-stop chatterbug and constantly tries to engage whoever is around into having a "conversation" with her. And she does not approve of conversations between others that don't involve her! Her sentences are still quite limited in structure and length, but she manages to get her point across pretty well most of the time. An example of a more "complex" sentence she constructs is " I want Mac n'Cheese" or "Oh no! Broken. Fix it." She says "oh no!" about alot of things, giving a heightened sense of emergency to something as simple as a broken cracker (which, by the way, is very hard to "fix"). She also will call out to toys she is looking for "Baby Cassie, 'ere are you?" and another favorite phrase of hers is to look with shock at something with her palms spread out and say "What happened?" So cute.
She has a very great memory and will remember the tiniest little things about a place or a person. I guess some things that seem insignificant to us may seem very important to her. She can remember parts of books and most definitely songs. She has a new fascination with letters and knows which letter is for Cecily (C is her favorite letter of course), Berit, Addison, Mommy, Daddy, Nana/Nonno, and Grandma/Grandpa. She also can count to 10, sometimes skipping the number 5, and always in a very high pitched voice.
Her playing has definitely changed as well. She is all about "pretend play" and spends ALOT of time doing the following: "cooking" making cake or pasta, coffee in the morning; feeding her babies; playing doctor with her new doctor's kit, and bathing the babies. And still, music and dancing are some of her favorite activities.
And everything has to be done "Self" lately. She tries to accomplish all sorts of tasks on her own, some of which are more achievable than others. Getting dressed is sometimes near impossible for us as she is always wanting to do it herself and changing her mind about what she is going to wear and tearing around the room naked for a long time. Getting to places on time can be a challenge.
Potty training-still not officially started although she pees on the potty almost daily. We did try training pants last weekend to see how long it would last, and well, it didn't last very long. I did a big song and dance about big girl panties and how fun they were and to "just let me know when you need to go potty" I think she got the wrong idea and thought that I was telling her how fun it was to pee IN the fabulous new big girl panties because she proceeded to do so and then let me know right away-proudly-that she peed.
We are now one month shy of the 2 year mark and I can't believe how grown up our little baby Biagini has become!
Playing at Fort Funston
At home with Baby Cassie
