Sarah Kate is definitely out of the baby stage and into the toddler stage! She seems so grown up, jabbering and staying busy all day long. She loves to play with her plastic tea set and take care of her babies. She loves to sit in her big brothers' chairs and ride their plasma cars. She's learned to use a spoon pretty well. And she's using several words: Mommy, Daddy, bubbas (brothers), pees (please or can also mean cheese if she sees a camera), dah pees (down, please), baby, shoes, hi, bye-bye, no, dah dah (all done).
She also loves books . . . she will sit and look at them herself for quite awhile, and if you are willing to read to her, that could never end! She definitely has a few favorite books that she brings to me over and over again. Like this one . . .
and this one . . .
and of course, this one . . .
Sarah Kate continues to be very interested in shoes and clothes. She loves to wear shoes, and even managed to convince two different grandparents to put her shoes on with her pajamas! In fact, "shoes" is one of the few words she loves to say. A couple of weeks ago, she was having reading time in her crib, and when I went in to get her, this is what I found:
If she could only get her arms out of her sleeves, she would have been completely undressed!
Thankfully, after a couple of months of sheer rebellion, Sarah Kate has realized that if she will just say "please," we will clap and cheer and give her whatever we want. So our little girl is finally getting some manners! My favorite is when she sweetly says, "down, please!" when I'm holding her. (Of course, even better is when I'm holding her and she hugs my neck tightly and lays her head on my shoulder. She is such a snuggler!)
We can't wait to find out all that Sarah Kate wants us to know! All day long, she says, "Mama?" followed by a string of gibberish. You can definitely tell that much of the gibberish is the same set of "words," but we haven't been able to decipher much yet. When she babbles on and on and on at the the dinner table, Noel gets a little concerns and asks, "This talking thing is just a phase, right?" He's learning what life is like with a little girl! She's got a lot to tell us!
