She has started to say a lot of new words. In addition to Mama, Dada, Nana, woof, no, and moo, she can now say: hot, hi, dog, yep, meow, banana (more like nanana) and ball. There are numerous other words that she is trying to say, but they aren't quite there yet. She can name almost all her body parts now with ease. Also, she has learned to kiss with her mouth closed. She always would lean in to kiss you with her mouth open and while it was sweet, it was very slobbery too. Now she puckers her lips and makes a kissing sound. She even makes her dolls and stuffed animals give kissed to both of us and our kitties. It's so CUTE! Sometimes, if you're really lucky, she'll blow you a kiss. That's super cute.
Mireya is learning how to play pretend with things. For example, she will take a travel size baby powder and pretend to shake it onto her leg and then rub it in. Sometimes she "powders" her dolls too. She does the same thing with lotion bottles. I've even caught her making her dolls walk and she makes the cutest little sounds when they "walk" around. Sometimes I will sit and watch her when she doesn't know it. I am always in awe of her beauty and intelligence. I inevitably end up unsuccessfully stifling a laugh and then she looks at me like, "What?" She's the best. She does such funny things.
She is really enjoying coloring. She wants to color every day now. I was thrilled until she realized this morning that crayons work on her clothes, her body, toys and a lot of other places too. Now I think I'm going to have to look into those Crayola marker things that only work on special paper. Oh, and she tried to eat her green crayon today and when I told her no, she simply smiled at me with green teeth. Fabulous...
Her sign language is improving steadily. She can now sign a whole bunch of things. (She learns everything we teach her, but I admit I haven't been as diligent at teaching her as many signs as she is capable of learning.) She signs: milk, drink, please, thank you, more, eat, done and hat. She strings them together too. For example: more milk or more eat.
We have decided that she is definitely a shy girl. She will wave hello at anyone, but she doesn't want to actually interact very often. Today was one of the exceptions. She went with us to the chiropractors office and while we were waiting several children came in. She waved hello to all of them and then slowly started getting closer and closer to them. She ended up playing right alongside them with a busy box. It was so great to watch her study what the older boys were doing and then do the same thing. They were quiet, low key children and I think that was the difference.
Mireya got to fly a kite for the first time yesterday! We bought her a tiny ladybug kite from Walmart and she had so much fun with it. We LOVE taking her to the park and letting her run around. She really enjoys the swings and playing with all the sticks. The one part that's awful is when we go to leave. Mireya throws a HUGE hissy fit. It involves tears and flailing and screaming and the whole shebang. Oy. (Her allergies are horrible too.)
We were taking a video of her yesterday playing and while Jason and I were visiting for two seconds she ate some leaves. SHE ATE LEAVES! We had absolutely no idea until we watched the video back after she went to bed. I can't believe what a little stink she is!! We laughed until we cried. Anyway, here is one video of her flying the ladybug kite:
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