Savannah officially turned 20 months on February 27, hard to believe she’s just 4 short months from being 2.YEARS.OLD.
She really is such a joy, there is so much more laughter and a lot less tears. We are continually amazed at how smart she is and how much she learns just from watching and listening to us. As a result, we’ve made our conversations and word choices much more kid friendly – I actually wince when we’re around other people and an unfavorable word comes out of their mouth…something I’m sure I have made many a parent do over the years.
There is also a lot more laughter on our ends, she makes us laugh multiple times every single day. She loves to play hide and seek even though she isn’t a very good hider, her hiding spots often the exact same place and they’re out in the open, we just do a lot of pretend looking. She loves to feed this fish in the pond across the street and put out corn for the animals in the woods behind our house (so far on the trail camera we’ve gotten raccoons, possums, armadillos and cats).
She’s got too many new words and phrases (3 word phrases at that!) to list, she is very good at verbalizing what she needs and wants and has perfected throwing tantrums if we don’t get it for her. Thankfully we’ve gotten good at walking away when those tantrums start and it’s hard not to laugh at her when she comes running back to us 30 seconds later and is all smiles. She loves to brush her teeth (“want brush teeth”), and although she is actually more interested in sucking the toothpaste off the brush, we happily oblige because who are we stand in the way of good oral hygiene? She loves to tell us where to sit (“sit right there”) and points to a spot right next to her on the couch, she’ll hold our hands and walk us all over the place but if we hold her hand back she’ll drop it in a second.
She love, love, loves to be outside and doesn’t care whether it’s running around the backyard, walking up and down the sidewalk or playing on the porch just as long as she is not inside. She knows she has to have shoes on to go outside and often knows exactly which pair we’re asking for and where they are located, she even got a pair on all by herself the other day!
We find it hard to discipline her because we're too busy laughing at her antics, last Saturday she and I went on a walk to get the mail and she wasn't very interested in holding my hand, she was however interested in trying to make a run for the street. I decided that then was as good a time as any to give counting to three a chance before I chose to just carry her against her will instead of letting her walk. Well, little Miss Intelligent sure showed me. I soon as I said, "one" she responded with, "two!" while masking my giggles I tried again and again she won me over.
She also loves to sing, one of the funniest/cutest things she does is sing with her eyes closed while swaying her head back and forth Stevie Wonder style. We've been trying to capture it on video but we've been unsuccessful this far. She can accurately sing up to the letter G in the alphabet, after that she just hums or da da das her way to the end.
Here she is thoroughly enjoying her water table a couple weekends ago.
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