She still attempts to dress herself, and does pretty well. She still needs my help of course. I took a bunch of pix of the process. The rest of them are on my MySpace & Facebook pages.
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Diella loves spelling her name. Cant do it on her own, but she tries. When we help her with it, letter by letter, we say 'what does that spell?' and she enthusiastically says. "Ella!" ... now whenever she sees letters & says them, then at the end she goes "Ella!" as though those letters also spell Diella, hehe
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You should see how well Diella drinks from a regular cup! She can do it totally on her own, but most of the time she'd rather walk around the house with it & we cant let her do that, hehe... so as long as someone is right next to her, she does great using a big cup all by herself!
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One of her videos has the song Head Shoulders Knees & Toes on it, she's always liked the song, but never really attempted it herself before til jus the other day... its just so cute to watch her sing & do the motions... I love it!
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She has been getting So good at counting, quite all of a sudden. There are these little mini candles that she likes to count, there are ten of them, and she almost always does it right (sometimes skips 9)... plus you have to help her take her finger and do them in order, one at a time, otherwise, her finger skips all over them, not in order & then her numbers are outta order too, like 2, 6, 3, 8... hehe
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Diella loves to help with laundry & dishes! Here are some pix of that. She's such a good helper, too! Oh, and other times she'll get out the broom & "clean" or wipe the tables with a paper towel, I'm thinking this is a good sign!
She has lately, for I have no clue what reason, been sticking her fingers in her ears, as though she's plugging them. But its at random times, not neccessarily when something is too loud or whatever... but then she pulls them out with this concentrated look on her face... I think she's just trying to hear the difference between the two, how things sound with & without her fingers in her ears... weird
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Sometimes when Diella will ask me to take off her boots or socks, she'll say 'off' ... but I repeat, "you want me to take em off?" ... and so once in a while when she says off, it comes out as "moff" cuz she's hearing me slur "em-off" ... its so funny!
This one night, Diella asked us to go to church, we told her we werent going for a few more days... so she goes to get her coat, I help her put it on but tell her we're not going to church today... she persisted... she said "zip" then "hood up" ... and then "gloves" so we continued to get ready for church, but then we asked her "are you driving?" she nodded... so we handed her some keys... its was adorable & heartbreaking at the same time, cute that she wanted to go so badly & was willing to get herSELF there, but sad cuz we werent going... she never got mad that we didnt go tho, at least... I think the reason she was asking to go is because we were playing dress up & she has that dress on, so maybe she thought it was Sunday?
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Oh my gosh, lately she has been sitting & laying in these positions that are so 'adult' looking... like laying on her side, propping her head up on her hand... things like that... I dont have any pictures YET, but it is Adorable!
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Its funny how we cannot get her to say 2 words back to back, like Yes Please (it comes out like P peez)... and she just will not form sentances... but then she does things like name 4 things in a row on a page of a book, like 'flower - doggie - chair - baby' ... or she'll pick up a phone and say "Hello? Hi? Ahna? Buh-bye" ... its crazy... c'mon girl, get these words back to back!
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Oh and also, with words... its funny how she can say certain words perfectly like shovel & icicle, that arent really simple words, but then she still makes up random words that are so unclear, like "booka" is her word for things that she doesnt know what they're called... and its also very similar to when she says "Bucka" which is 3 different things! - butter, puzzle, and oh I forget... one other thing, hehe
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She's still struggling with colors... she did learn a new one & has been consistent with it, Brown. How funny! She's gotten it right many times, then last night, she pointed to my brown eye shadow & said 'brown' ... I thought that was cute
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So funny, lately, when she asks to sit on my lap... uh I dont have one, hehe
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We have this hand held mirror that she likes to look into at times, and once I said, 'is mommy in there?' And she couldnt find me, so I helped her angle it to where she could see me... now when we get out the mirror, she immediately turns it to the side & looks into it at different angles to try to find me (I sometimes have to put myself in line with it so she can see me) but I think its smart that she knows to do that!
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The other day Diella & I were sitting on the papazon chair. She would put her hands high up on my chest, leaning on me, and get this angry look on her face & stare and me until we both laughed... then over & over again, she cracks me up! I thinks its awesome how she can purposely make these expressions on her face AND know that it was just for fun. Sort of like this other new thing we do... I've shown her when I'm sad, how my face looks sad, now sometimes Diella says (in a very sad tone) "saaad" ... and we'll play this pretend game that we're sad, then happy, & back and forth... its cute.
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I have begun to use "Time-out" with Diella (for when she disobeys), it works! She does well, I set her in whatever spot (just whatever we're closest to, a chair, or spot on the floor by the wall, not one specific time out chair)... and tell her to sit there until mommy says she can get up. Yesterday she found a green high lighter & wrote on mommy & daddy's bed sheets (she KNOWS to Only draw on paper)... and so she had to sit in time out for it... and she whines while she's there, so I'm hoping this is effective! I'm glad :)
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Ok, we do this thing we call "taco" ... I wrap her in her blanket, real tight around her body, her arms are kinda pinned down... we giggle & say taco... well the other day, we were playing taco & she went to walk with the blanket around her like this... well she tripped on it... and had no arms to catch herself, so she face planted into the floor! I felt terrible, cuz that hurt & of course she cried a little... but I was laughing so hard cuz it just looked hilarious... well when she was done crying, guess what she said... "Genn!" ('again') lol!
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Well we got the other crib up in her room for the new baby... and I put her in there. The mattress is SO springy, so of course she immediately started jumping. Eh, I figured couldnt hurt, so I let her... later, she asked me to go in there again to jump, I was busy doing something, so I casually said, "Diella, if you can get in there by yourself then you can go ahead & jump" ... she said "ok" ... well my back was turned to the crib, and but a minute later I hear her jumping, I turn around & sure enough! She had gotten in all by herself! I called Jake in & he had her do it again, so we could see it... its hilarious, once she gets to the top, she flops over the edge, her little feet go straight up in the air & she's in! Its so funny!
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Right now she's hanging from the edge of the dining room table, swinging her legs, saying "swing!" Hahaaa, I love that she's so daring! Heehee
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And one of her new favorite things to do is to play with her play kitchen in her room. She says "make." Well she'll bring us a plate & a cup (or any 2 pieces) and she'll stir, or she'll pretend to pour, and its so sweet, cuz I dont think we ever really taught her to do these things... she was using her imagination all by herself! Then lately, she'll hand us a plate & say "have it" and she'll say 'make' ... then she'll say "hot dod" (hot dog), she makes us hot dogs! and even lately she'll say ketchup! She makes us hot dogs, and french fries, and pours us drinks... its so cute! She's pretending! I LOVE IT!!!
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She Just Now did it again... got her coat & boots on & said 'drive' and 'church' awww
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She still Loves to draw... the past few days, she'll make a mark on the paper & then say a letter or a number, like thats what she's drawing... its never really even close to what she says it is, but I like that she seems to be attempting, or at least has the desire to draw the things she knows!
2 comments:
aww so many cute things!!! I don't even know where to start! I think this has to be the absolute most fun age, don't you? But I keep saying that! Aria really wants a play kitchen ;-) Good job on counting, too! Aria does it where if she points to stuff, she doesn't go in order - I wonder why they do that? hmmm..
Sorry, but the taco story was da best! teehee....
Love the stories, Katness!
xo
Aunt Beannie
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