Well, my little Gabriella is now 17 months; she's getting older but not bigger! LOL.
Gabriella has limited speech still - she still does her 'uh, uh' thing I described quite a few months back; she does use sign language for the basics like please, thank you, more. Let's see, for my sake, what does she say: Mama, Dadda, Elijah, Hippo, G'ma, G'pa, juice, 'where are you'. I can't think if she has any other words - I'll keep track now and see what she does say, though I don't think it's much more than this.
She is a little sweetheart. She loves her hippo to bits still. She sucks her thumb and had started a couple months ago to suck it much more often than she did previously which was in bed only really... now it's more, probably b/c we have hippo around all the time. She sleeps through the night about half the time; I think that's safe to say. She likes to get in a morning nap still many days, which is fine by me. She has all 4 molars (since close to 12months) and 4 teeth each on the bottom and top.
Last Saturday (6th) I finally tried to put in 2 ponies in her hair for fun... and it worked. She did look much older to me with 2 ponies in though; I haven't done it since.
(there you have it again, a picture flipping on it's own, sorry)For as long as Gabriella has been climbing up on chairs at the table (quite awhile already), if she would spill some water from one of the boys cups left on the table, she actually would go and get a dishtowel to wipe it up! Now,
who's daughter is she? LOL -
obviously Jason's daughter!! I didn't instruct her to do this, she has learnt this by watching her brothers who do the same... I finally thought to take a pic of her wiping the table this week!
and now along those lines, I figured out why twice earlier this week I've found a sippy cup in the garbage...hmmm, this little cleaner-upper is putting things "away" by placing them in the garbage...I think I have another perfectionist on my hands?!
for fun, dressing up in a little mask Elijah got from church last week -
Elijah walked right past us on the way out of the gym; he knew he was to be quiet so he was doing this "shhh" pose
That afternoon I returned to the school to volunteer in Elijah's class. They had a little Birthday Party for Jesus: they each brought a wrapped book and exchanged with each other, and played some games like the following picture, I think his Teacher called it "musical shares" meaning they had to share the chairs when the music stopped and she kept taking a chair out like musical chairs - it was cute and fun for the kids!
they decorated cookies and had a great ol' time.
