Dog Training

Maddy's new thing is training the dogs. She gives them treats and she puts them in their crates.  The newest thing is telling them to sit and stay. She says those words so well, the dogs understand her just fine. She will say sit with her little finger pointed up. And stay is with a toe raise. Too cute.

Thank You

This morning, Jim came in with Hootie and said "say thank you". It took a long time of asking, but she did finally say it. And SUPER CLEAR! She pronounced the you part so well, I almost fell over literally. My mouth dropped, Jim laughed and Hootie just smiled big. She is getting really good with her language. I'm so impressed.

Singing Songs

Maddy loves to sing songs. Whenever you start singing "Itsy Bitsy Spider" or "Head Shoulder...", she will break out the moves for those songs and just start giggling.

Tonight, I was putting her in bed and she just randomly started singing these songs herself. No, she doesn't speak clearly enough to really understand what she is saying. The combination of the motions and the songs she sings is enough for me. Love her!

Reagan's imagination

She cracks me up. Sometimes she really reminds me of things I used to do. Tonight, Reagan decided to put her little play plastic doggies (from a barbie thing) into some water. When Jim wouldn't let her play with it in the living room, I suggested she go into the bathroom. She did.

I have no idea what she did, but she asked for many supplies at different times during the playtime. She asked for a boat (for the dogs), a rower thingy and some other stuff.

She played for at least thirty minutes in this bathroom. I went in later to use it and realized her stuff was still floating in the sink. I left it there. :)

Talking and climbing

Maddy is so talkative all the time now. It is getting easier to understand her every day. She walks around and talks to you in her sometimes jibberish and sometimes real words and it's real conversation to her. Real words. It's funny. I actually understand her most of the time.

Tonight, she was playing with me and my mom. She'd go into the kitchen and climb up on the stool. She'd play with the lights (we'd say on or off) and she'd giggle. She'd get down and run over to us in the living room. Then she'd talk to us about whatever she had in her hand and take off again. When she runs, her arms go out to the side, her chin gets tucked in and she waggles fast. So funny.

At one point, she walked over to the place where we keep her books and she called out to me "mama!!!!!!". I looked up and answered her "what?" She pointed at the books and said "booookkkkkk?" I said okay baby and got up to go read with her. She pulled out her books and we started reading them. Way to cute.

Maddy likes to eat

... but only fruit and cheese.

Climbing again

Tonight, she didn't just climb up the ladder on the neighbor's play set, but she also went up the "rock wall". She climbed up the stairs and green things on that until she reached the top. Are you kidding?