sleep update &various pictures

Since the last posting she had a sleep/crying episode. Luckily Baba was at work while this hour long crying episode lasted. She woke up around 2ish and stayed up until 3ish crying. I'd held her a bit and then put her down. But in the nights after that she's been sleeping till about 3, not waking around midnight, and then I've been nursing her at that time.

She's walking on her tiptoes sometimes now.

She loves the Baby signing times videos so Muggy has ordered them for a Christmas present & we won't have to get them from the library. The picture above shows her watching it. The picture before that is when she was taking off her shirt.

The first photo shows her and brother on the trampoline as he pulled her around on the sleeping bag. And the 2nd picture is of her licking the bowl of the chocolate tofu peanut butter pie which she LOVES-"yum yum" and sticks her tongue out in anticipation!

uh oh & sleeping patterns & casper slide

this week she began saying "uh-oh" when things fall to the ground.

for the past 2 weeks I've been cutting out her middle of the night nursing. it's been bedtime around 8/8:30 and then she'll wake up around midnight-1ish and then again between 3/4am and then 6/7am for the day. so i've been eliminating the feeding at 3/4 am and she's doing pretty well. she'll cry out and I'll pick her up and check her diaper and give her the chupete and she'll cry a little bit and fall back to sleep. last week she cried for about 20 minutes at a time when i was eliminating that feeding. and now it's gone to a few minutes of crying so we're doing ok with that. she's been going to sleep without nursing first this week so that's why i'm keeping the midnight nursing this week. since she made 16 months yesterday i'll have to stop very soon.

dancing at the wedding

my cousin got married nov 1 and at the wedding she was dancing to the music.

16 months and signing well

we got some dvd's from the library on baby signing and she LOVED them. she picked up quite a few new signs (as did I) and has begun using them. at this point she knows moon, cracker, milk, more, frog, socks, dog, drink, eat, chupete -pacifier, chicken/hen, cat. I do more with her and she'll soon pick them up as well. The dvd's were wonderful and I will be checking them out again since she asked for them by doing the "baby signing time" signs.

shoes

she loves to try on shoes and muggy (grandma) bought her some play high heels. they are too skinny for her fat feet but she got them on one day when muggy was watching her.

sleeping with the chupetes

as you can see by the photos, she loves to hold 3 of her chupetes at once. What a character. She knows the sign for it now too and asks as soon as she get buckled in the carseat.

wheeee/zoo

a favorite new activity of Senorita's is to sit in the big rocking chair and rock it very fast back & forth, almost to the point of tipping it over backwards (danger hazard which I must always be aware of) and say "wheeeeee." She also likes to get on the chair by the computer and sit/stand/slide off of it as I tried to get in the attached photos.

we went to the zoo over the weekend and she loved it--her first time. she climbed the tree with Brother and enjoyed seeing the animals. I forgot the camera but took pictures with my phone and haven't learned how to upload them yet.

our activities today

Today began in a rush when Big Brother went to school wearing his "Friday" school t-shirt; however because of the field trip the class was going on, he had to wear his uniform collared shirt. I got the call before I even got back home so I ran into the house and jumped back to bring the shirt over to him. Senorita was getting tired of being in the seat for so long--it ended up being nearly an hour with the original drive there and back and again, with stopping to put the cable bill in the box. So when we got home how ironic that she didn't want to get out of the car. She loves to sit in the driver seat and play with the keys and whatnot. Then I got her to come inside and play in the tub while I put clothes away in the room. I did that after she tried to go out in the rain and play with the puddles. Then we went in her room and she played with things while I straightened out her locker. All the while we were listening to some Spanish folk songs. When I nursed her before her nap she began pinching her own face & laughing. Is that a new activity?? Her face was red from her doing that to herself. What a monkey.

yum yum

She began doing a "yum yum" word when she eats something she likes. Big Brother was excited to hear her say that today for the first time but she began saying it a few days ago. It's so cute. And she's definitely saying "GAGA" for Brother's name. So we are up to woof (dog), wack (duck/chicken), GAGA(brother), yum-yum (delicious!), mama, baba. And when she sees the flag she makes the same sound of "aaahhwwwe" with a big smile.