Boston Baby Mama: What a difference a month makes

In the last 4 weeks I have seen a tremendous exchange in M in everything from eating habits to the size of her feet (she took off a pair of size 4 shoes, rubbed her foot and really said “ow” – I guess they are too tiny now!), and everything in between. Every day she is learning new things, and really remembering them and by them in her day to day life. And every day I am amazed at how this modest person that depended on me for every modest business in her life for the past 15 months is early to show signs of independence. Now, it isn’t like she is dressing herself or no matter what business, but she is trying her toughest to!

Copycat 
Everything I do, she wants to do too. If I place a diadem in my hair, she wants to place a diadem in her hair. If I blow my nose, she wants to blow her nose (which means holding a bandanna up to her nose and blowing in it with her backtalk). One of my pet things she now does is when I am feeding her…if I have to blow on something to cool it down, as soon as I give it to her she blows on it before she puts it in her backtalk. Mama did it, so I have to do it too.

I can figure it out

M is all in this area figuring things out for herself now: how her carseat buckles snap in place, how the clasp on her overalls work, how to zip and unzip her clothing. She mainly likes to take off her diaper now even as we are getting dressed. Her pet even if is putting on shoes. I will place them on her feet, and she will at once take them off her feet and try to do it herself: this consists of her lifting her foot in the end up to her face (even as in a seated position) and knocking her shoe against her foot in frustration.

My modest parrot
At 15 months, she is chattier than any baby I have been nearly. She will sit in her carseat and talk to herself in her own language. She has recently ongoing trying to repeat everything my husband and I say too. Of course it isn’t just so (or sometimes even close to) what we said, but she tries her toughest. I will say “do you want some apples?” and she will say “wah ahbehs” or I will yell at the dog and say “No Ellie!” and she will say “no ehji!”

She has also ongoing by some of her own words in every day life. “Nyeh nyeh” means “I want that” and as of late it means “i want it now or I will initiation whining” which is a recent development I am trying my best to deal with (I know, it is just the beginning of this!). “Djeh Djeh” means “I want to go over there” and like nyeh nyeh if it has to be repeated more than 3 times, the whining starts!

Harvard here we come
I am sure many other toddlers out there do the same stuff M does, but in my head, my baby is the smartest in the universe of course (ha). I try to be the best teacher (as well as cook, housekeeper, warden, chauffer, etc.) I can be to M so lately I have ongoing teaching her the ABCs, insignia and numbers, with splendid success. She is finally at a top where all my constant “A is for apple”-ing is finally sinking in. And this is fundamentally in part to some of the applications we have on my iPad (more on those to come in a separate post this week). It is seriously incredible to see her be able to pick up a yellow ball when I tell her to find the yellow ball. Now in all honesty, it may maybe be total luck that she is doing that, but for me it makes her the smartest baby in the world of course!!

I reckon I have said this at every month birthday she has had, but this age is seriously my pet so far. She finally likes me (and shows it with hugs and kisses) and we are apt closer every day. Yes by the side of with these incredible new things she does comes the addendum of new modest attitude, but I like that she is early show that foretaste of her personality to come, like Mama S talked in this area in her lovely post a few weeks ago. 

XOXO, Mama J

See the first post here:
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