Whistle While You Play

Hi Little Lovebug!
I forgot to mention one of your most amazing feats yet: THE WHISTLE! Yes, that's right, at 18 months, you can whistle with the best of us - it is truly incredible and such a sight. We'll try to get it on video - I suspect it has something to do with your Grand Sam keeping you 2 days a week for the last 3 months ;) Let's see - also your sentence construction has come a long way - from "Mommy, sit down" all the way to "Draw a Circle, Mommy." You say "I love you" and this week we've been playing with sidewalk chalk, your new watering can, and the broom - you love helping sweep and water! We also visited the neighbors this week and you got very upset when mommy held 1-month old Baby Anderson, Hadley E's little brother. Today, I am hoping your play kitchen and desk will be delivered and can't wait. Now you'll have a better workspace for cooking and coloring. You enjoy reading 10 tiny babies and pinkalicoius this week. We are getting really excited about 11 days in San Diego together and just hoping the flight isn't too hard on you. You have started showing an interest in going in the potty and will sometimes sit on it in the mornings. You still like your binky an awful lot. You show us every day lots of new things you know - from colors to animals to body parts. It is such an adventure to learn with you and experience things for your 1st time as your parent - what a Blessing you are!
Mom

My Little One-&-a-Half Year Old!

Bunny Bear~
You are 1 1/2 years old this week and growing up so fast - we are enjoying every minute of it and just wish we could spend it all together, but you really enjoy school and your time with Grand Sammy too. These days you're in a great routine of sleeping from 8pm-7am; breakfast is yogurt, oatmeal, cheerios, or cereal bar and fruit; you play hard all morning and enjoy coloring, running in circles, puzzles, "cooking," playing in the bathtub or any kind of water, pushing strollers, swinging, walking, etc. You typically nap at around noon and sleep for 80 minutes at school and closer to 3 hours on Tu/Th when you stay home. You wake up to play until mom & dad get you and we try to have a family dinner (fish or chicken, pasta, veggies) before more play, bath/story/bedtime. In the mornings, you often tell us "home" because you love being at home together like we do!

Life is just dandy this summer - we go to the pool at least once a week, to Coolidge to play in the fountain, ride bikes around town and sometimes home from school. You have started telling Daddy "i love you" back. You are an excellent communicator and super sweet and fun. At school they tell me you are a compassionate little person often sitting with some of your special needs friends to help them with touch and feel books or comfort them (especially Barrett and Hudson). This makes us so proud! You have really taken a shine to your Unca Yani and Mer (Aunt Amoco) this summer and love playiing with them when they visit. Your hair is quite long - I pull it back out of your eyes in the morning. You like to tell us all our body parts and are really good at it. You can count with us to about 4 and also try to sing ABCs a little. The things you remember amaze me! You have learned all the objects in your alphabet book and know that S is for Snake. You also really like "nuthin" our friend Jonathan and we spent time with our Little Jonathan this past weekend and cheered for Uncle Jakey at his triathlon - you helped me say "Go Racers Go!" and got lots of attention on your super cool iBert seat. You're SO hip! We also saw Cousin Willa at Nick's wedding reception and you girls danced and hugged & kissed and tried hula hooping and playing with beach balls - fun! This weekend we are going to Nashville to stay with G-Parents and meeting Willa at the zoo, then next we are off to San Diego for 11 uninterrupted days of family togetherness on the West Coast! Oh, we also spent the 4th of July on the lake, but you weren't too sure about the boat - we got to play with Cousins Daniel and Alyssa then and get lots of attention from Drew, Anna, Caroline, Ellie & Gang - you ate Grandmother's b-day cake well too! You associate Ice cream with Mommy and call Grandmother "Uma."
You are so loved!!!