My Quirky Baby

My darling daughter is such a bright spot in my life. She has the ability to make me smile and laugh all through the day. She also has an uncanny ability to bring the high gooey voice and sweetsie baby talk out of me. I try not to do it but sometimes I can’t help it. Here in no particular order are my recent observations of her:

1. She says Hi, Bye, Uh Oh, Up pwease and No! We know she has more words than that but she’s a girlie of few words (hmmmm…takes after the grandma I think)

2. When she really really wants a bite of that ice cream I’m eating, or the chocolate daddy is eating, she stands in a type of horse stance and lifts each leg up and down in a little dance, babbling uncontrollably with “pwease” interspersed until we give into her adorableness.

3. She loves to dance to the Imagination Movers CD. And when I say dance I mean she likes to turn around in circles over and over and over and over…

4. Her favorite song is the ABC’s. She slurs it all together when she sings along but occasionally I’ll catch an A,B,O,T or other letter in there.

5. She can be counted on to refuse to nap at least once a week. Today for instance she spent 2 hours babbling, singing and laughing to herself in her crib before I acknowledged it just wasn’t gonna happen.

6. Lately, when I change her diaper she’ll squeeze her little butt cheeks together right when I’m wiping and laugh at me as I try to pull the wipe out and end up ripping it into little shreds instead.

7. She likes to push on daddy’s nose and hear him say, “HONK!”

8. She’s most ticklish when you put the top of your head against her belly and rub rub rub.

9. She still has a 4 toothed grin. She’s got molars in the back on both sides now but no teeth in between yet.

10. She blows kisses to me when I leave or say good night. Most of the time her hand will go up and back down before she’s able to produce a smacking sound. Makes it even more endearing.

11. If the boys are laughing at some joke she’ll start fake laughing to feel included which makes all of us laugh even harder.

12. When I bring out the pajamas at night and try to get her to come get them on she shouts “No!” and either runs away or into daddy’s arms, falsely assuming he’ll save her from bed time.

13. I can’t get her to touch any type of fruit. Once the baby food stage was over all she would eat were bananas and now she shuns those as well. I’ve tried fresh and canned everything and she’ll have nothing to do with it. The most fruit I can get into her is through fruit juice and yogurt. Oh and she hates fruit in her yogurt just like mommy.

14. She prefers baseball caps to bows, much to my chagrin. I have grand plans to doll her up as a flower girl at her aunt’s wedding but I’m predicting she won’t cooperate.

15. In my completely unbiased opinion, she’s the most adorable and sweet baby girl in the world.