Welcome March and the spring that's coming with it. It was over 60 degrees two days ago. Then we wake up this morning and there was snow on the ground. Definitely a Michigan spring.
We're officially half way thru our second year of parenting. B and I are having a lot of fun with our little person. It's really nice to be able to communicate. It makes the experience much more fulfilling.
She has been very keen to "help" recently. She'll notice one of us do some household chore and come running. She exclaim "help"! Translated...it's meaning is "I want to help you!". She is very serious about this endeavor. And most of the time will see it thru. It's been very sweet and kind to watch this need to contribute blossom.
She also exhibits moments of real humanness. The other day we were playing peekaboo with a dishtowel and as the towel was removed from my head, hair swept into my face. She ever so gingerly leaned forward and very carefully brushed the hair off my forehead. Or this morning, she came walking out of her bedroom with a small beenie baby dog. As I inquired about the furry friend, her little hand gently stroked the "fur" on it's back.
Her imaginative play really started this week. There's a series of Fischer-Price toys called "Little People". She received the school bus with three plastic characters as a bday gift. One evening a couple of days ago, she pulled the bus to the middle of her bedroom, shook the plastic figures out and then one by one made them walk to the bus. Once at the door of the bus, each one was catapulted thru the door into the bus while Ellie exclaimed "up". Translated, she was saying "walk up the stairs into the bus".
As for all the other activities. She's much picker about food. She'll happily eat fruit, yogurt, and PB&J for all meals, all the time. We insist that dinner is filled with meats and veggies that the "family" are eating. Doesn't go over real well. So we agree to disagree...variety is important.
I'm sure she's grown but I think she looks a lot like last month. Although her baby chubbiness is slowly going away. Her legs are slimming out and have almost lost their chubby rolls around the thigh. Her baby belly can still be big and round in a way that only baby bellies can be. I'll miss it when it's gone.
She still tries new words here and there. Today's new word was "heart". I've decided that babies come with very heavy accents. Her words make perfect sense to me...most of the time. But I find most other people have a hard time figuring out what she's saying.
Happy Spring!
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