So..major updates on Lily from the past 7 months include:
- Talking! Lily's vocabulary exploded and the way she strings words together is impressive and, at times, hilarious.
- Favorite activities now include coloring and painting, both of which she is getting better and better at; more complex games like puzzles and mazes; big kid activities on the playground; pretend play like taking care of sick baby dolls, cooking "food" for us, putting stuffed animals in time out. Lily has also just started dance class, ballet and tap, and she LOVES it!
- Obsessions - Sofia the First is #1 in Lily's world right now. It's
her first real obsession. She loved Elmo for a long time, but her
interest in Sofia is more involved. She can relate almost anything back
to her. She has one dress that looks nothing like Sofia's except that
it's purple, but she refers to it as her Sofia dress simply because it's
the same color. Lily also loves Cinderella and still enjoys the Sesame
Street crew.
- Silly Lily: She went through a phase recently
where she would wake up from sleeping and tell me that she slept like a
_______. Every day was something different - a princess, a mouse, an
owl, a camel (my personal favorite). She also distinguishes between babies, little girls and big girls. Most of the time she insists she is a little girl, but every now and then she'll claim to be a baby or a big girl depending on what she is trying to get out of us.
- Potty training: Lily was amazingly easy to daytime potty train. We waited until she seemed ready (sometime between 2 and 2.5 years old), started with a training toilet and graduated to a toddler seat on the regular toilet.
She still wears a pull up for nap and bed times, but we haven't even
begun to work on sleep potty training. We'll tackle it soon, but right
now we're enjoying our big girl's accomplishments so far.
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| Ready to dance |
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| Climbing High |
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| That's right, they're all in timeout |
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| Magnetic marble maze |
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| Big kid swing |
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| Pretend play with her little girls |
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| Mad coloring skills |
