Little Learner

I'll start slow, and save the best for last... ok, I am weening nursing, have been for over a week now. She's doing well, she LOVES whole milk! So I only nurse about twice over the course of 24 hours. Sometimes she still wakes up once in the night, not sure how to keep her down all night more consistently. But, so we're almost done nursing, yay!

Her hair is growing Growing! Getting thicker and a little bit longer, and I love it! Can't wait til i can do more with it! And it's lightening up a tiny bit, we'll see if she ends up blonde or brunette.

We used to blow in her face when she was much younger, she gasps & giggles... and she's got a few toys that blow air... plus Aunt Alethea has one that she likes to play with, all that blowing in her face, she loves! Well, Diella went in front of the air conditioner the other day (one we have low, in the bottom of a window by the floor, that she can reach)... and with all that air blowing, she loves to stand there and gasp & smile... we like to watch it, its silly!

One funny thing she likes to do is get this metal cookie sheet out from a cupboard (we still havent baby proofed any of them... practically seems too late now)... but she puts it on the floor & stands on it! I laugh and say, "are you surfin Diella?" My little surfer girl!

Another difficult thing to explain wihtout seeing or hearing it, but i'll try... I grab her around her mid-section with my fingers on her tummy, and i repeatedly press on it, so that when she talks, and 'holds the note' so to speak, its like "a-a-a-a-a-a" can you hear it? So now when i start doing that to her tummy, she automatically will hold the note, so that sound comes out. We both think its funny!

Big News. Diella has fallen in love! Ya know Leap, the frog? Well she's had him since she was born, but just discovered him this week! She Loves when he sings the alphabet song! She'll bring him to me, set him on my lap & just look at me with these hopeful eyes... so I tell him hello, give him a hug & a kiss & then squeeze him (so the song starts)... she smiles, starts dancing to the music, and i hand him to her & she gives Him a huge hug & takes him away, dancing... i say, 'Diella, do you love him!?" she just smiiiiiles! So cute!

ok, and the most awesome thing yesterday!... Usually when she's done nursing, I take her hands and move them in the sign for "All done" and i say "All done!" ... she smiles & leaves... then yesterday, when she was finished, I said All done... and she did the sign!!! On her own!!! It was the coolest thing, and i was so proud! She remembered the sign, and did it without me showing her! She's learning! So fun to watch her Learn and Understand!!! LOVE IT!!

~Kat