Putting Words Together

Reese is starting to put words together. She says, "I stuck", "Look", and "Right there". She calls her brother Bubby and Riley.

When I come to pick her up in the evening, she sees me and gets her coat and is ready to go. She insists on having her coat zipped up and wearing her hood. When it was raining out this summer, I tried to get her to wear her hood and she kep taking it off. Now that is cold outside, she wears the hood without any problems.

Some of the other things that she has added to her vocabulary are: "Hurt" and "I go too!" when I am leaving the van, and she is still strapped into her car seat.

Reese's Second Birthday

We celebrated Reese's second birthday at Chuck E. Cheese. She had a good time and did not want to get off of the school bus. It was her first time there and I think that she was a little afraid because there were so many people there and she is so little.

She loved the book that we got her, Reese's Adventure on Sesame Street. I made it through Shutterfly and she loves seeing herself with Elmo.

PaPa and YaiYai got Reese the couch that she really liked from Walmart. The two times we went there and she saw it, she had me get it down for her to sit on while she read a coloring book and did not want me to put it away when it was time for us to go.

Reese also got a Barbie motorcycle like her brother's, but we had to get her one since he is not ready to give his up yet. It is on its last leg though with a crack in the front wheel.

It seems like since she turned two, she has grown up so much. She is gabbering all the time now and sometimes she is understandable and sometimes not. She is still a pointer, a nodder, and a shaker, but she is using more words such as here, when she wants me to take something from her, no, when asked a question, and Mommy, when she wants me. The other night, instead of crying in the middle of the night for me, she called Mommy, Mommy until I went to get her.

Where has time gone?

Bye, Bye Binky!

It has been about three weeks now since Reese decided to give up her pacifier. I think that she was not allowed to use it during school and then decided that she did not need it at home either. It started out as she would hold her binky in her hand if given to her instead of putting it in her mouth. Sometimes she would put it in her mouth and just hold it with her teeth. If she was really mad and you gave her her binky to calm her down, she would just throw it at you. Then, the finale was when she would not take her binky to go to bed at night. I would ask her if she wanted her binky to go night, night, and she would shake her head no. Now, I just don't ask her anymore, and when she finds a binky laying around, she sometimes puts it in her mouth and holds it with her teeth, but not for very long!