At 20 months:
My baby is getting bigger and bigger. Grace wore her first 2T shirt a few weeks ago. It just seems like a big jump from sizes in "months" or sizes in "T" for toddler. Grace is wearing 18-24month clothes as well as some 2T. She is wearing sz 4 diapers, and sz 6 shoes. She weighs ______ and is ______ in tall.
Phrases are a regular occurrence now. It is very common for her to put together 3, 4 and 5 words/concepts to communicate with us, like "mama, more please," or "no, peanut, no take it" or "look, daddy, look at me" I would even go so far as to say that she has said things that would qualify as sentences as well. Things like "Ut oh mama, where did it go?" complete with the cutest little hand gesture as she shrugs her shoulders. She regularly is using me, I, my, and mine to refer to herself. As for total number of words she knows and use- I gave up counting a long time ago, because it is well over several hundred at this point.
Grace knows all of her colors and will say most of them, Yellow is not her favorite color (in fact she avoids it at all costs) She loves blue red and green. She also knows and can name heart, star, circle and triangle shapes. Grace seems to know all of her letters and can identify them by name. Grace can count on her own to 14 and will say every other number beyond that to 20. She can identify numbers up to 9.
Graces pretend play has become more complex as well. Grace talks to her babies and hold conversations with them- asking them questions, and ending the conversations with a kiss. She likes to change her baby doll's diaper, give it her pacificer, etc. She also really enjoys singing songs and reading books. She regularly sings twinkle twinkle, ABC's and many other songs. In fact I bet she would know every word to songs we usually sing.
Grace loves to put together puzzles (the real ones) watching Mickey Mouse, playing play-doh, coloring and playing basket ball.
She has recently started some terrible two behaviors, and showing that she wants to do what she wants to do. We got the book teeth are not for biting and everyone goes potty. She actually has gone on the potty 3 or 4 times in the last few days.
What I don't want to forget: Monkey hugs ( when she gets so excited and will wrap her hands around my neck and feet around my waist and just squeeze) Her little guilty smile right before she decides not to do what you are asking her to, how she will run around saying look at me, look at me.
Favorite books: leap frog ABC's Merry Christmas big hungry bear, Mickey Mouse with toodles
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