We've spent some time at the Discover Playhouse the past 2 Friday afternoons. Isla loves playing on the slides, with the toys, the books....everything. Last week she climbed up the slide, slid down, stood...and fell flat on her face. Twice. After that, she'd go to the top and yell "Momma, catch!" and wouldn't silde down until I was squatting at the bottom. This week told me to catch her once, but when she came down, she twisted and stopped herself before hitting the floor at the bottom. She was SO proud of herself! She still hasn't explored the whole place--last week I made her leave the toddler play area to go explore other things but this week, I let her play there as long as she wanted, then she went to explore a little bit. She hasn't even seen half the place yet so I'm sure we'll get lots of use out of our year pass.
She's really into Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Elmo these days. She'll pick up the remote, bring it to me, and tell me which she wants to watch. I try to limit the television to first thing in the morning and at the very end of the day. She's kinda slow to get going in the morning (even though she's up early) and lazing around watching TV seems to be a good thing.
I've been meaning to try to make a list of all the words she knows, but I can't get them all down. One morning last week I wrote them down as she said them but I was at 30 words by the time she finished breakfast and after that, I couldn't write as she said them. P and I are going to see how many we can think of: egg, cheese, milk, bowl, plate, spoon, cup, pan (to put her egg in when we cook it), waffle, snack, juice, down, done, hot dog, hot, rice, sausage, avocado, eat, up, down, mouse, boo-boo (means fart), tractor, walk, Momma, Daddy, back, book, read, Mimi, PopPop, bed, night-night, baby, blanket, Jonathan (or Johnnie), Grandma, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pete, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy, Elmo, Big Bird, Ernie, cookie, more, please, thank you, light, blocks, one, two, three, chair, couch, house, nice, green, blue, white, Ashlee, shoes, socks, ball, swing, slide, play, write, dog, giraffe, monkey, hippopotamus, owl, fish, butterfly, mine, no, chicken, Isla, pig, eyes, nose, knees, elbow, trash, hi, bye, rollercoaster, dance, bear, Sprite, diaper. I'm sure I'll come back and add more. She also says some 2-4 word phrases....."I want it," "My ____ (usually Daddy)," "So good," "Here you go," "See you," "Love you," "I got ____," "Night Night Jesus." And she knows so many more words. She loves animal books and can point out all the animals in there, show you were all her body parts are (including her dancing phlanges).
We had parent-teacher conference at daycare this week. Apparently Isla says "mine" a lot. She argues with a little boy in her class. She also pushes at them, although I don't think she meant Isla actually PUSHES the other kids--surely if she did, I would have heard about it before now. She also said Isla LOVES the books. This makes me happy. In the midst of playing with all the toys and slides at the Discovery Playhouse Friday, Isla brought me some books and sat down for us to read stories. Sometimes she'll sit for an entire story, sometimes she keeps turning pages.
Big news of the weekend....I cleaned my car Friday (enough of a novelty in and of itself!) and turned baby girl's car seat around! She's 22 pounds (with clothes) now. MO law says they have to be 20 to forward face, but our car seat says 22 pounds so we've waited. And waited. Actually, she just hit 20 pounds at her 18 month well baby so we haven't waited very long. She got a huge grin on her face when she got in the car Friday and jabbered all the way to the playhouse. She must have forgotten it was turned around because when she saw it leaving the playhouse, she got really excited!
Here are some pictures from Friday afternoon's visit to the playhouse...
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