Without further adieu, here's the latest list of Lily doins...1. Storage and transportation: Lily fills her little hands and arms to capacity with anything and everything. She can't hold just one of something. Noooo - that's entirely too easy. Both hands and arms must be packed. You can only imagine how this hampers a little toddler who really could use both hands to help with catching herself when she falls...often. She can have some spectacular toy-explosion falls so at a minimum, it's entertaining.
2. Transport Game: Lily loves to bring us whatever she is carrying too. It could be pieces of shredded tissue, dog food, a nose crustie. Whatever. Sometimes we are the destination, other times, it's a bathtub or close hamper (we have gone on some wild goose chases for a missing sippy cup).
3. Raaarrrr!: Its what the Tiger says. This has turned into a Game, too. She'll swipe at us and say "raarrrrr!". Like the Ow! Game, all is fun & games until Mommy gets smacked, or swiped (again, homey dont play dat). So, often, the little Tiger has to be reprimanded.
4. Colors: By accident, we found out Lily knows her colors (God bless her awesome school). She knows green, purple, and red rather well.
5. Monkey See Monkey Do: Lily does a great job at Follow the Leader. We will say something like, "sit down, stand up, JUMP!, turn around, clap, where's your knee?, JUMP" and she happily obliges.
6. "Dohty": This is "Dorothy" on The Wiggles
7. Thank you out loud without prompt: Lily has signed Thank you and has been speaking it for a while, too. But recently, she'll respond "Tae Tew" without prompt. It just warms my heart. Now that I think about it, I end up giving her more stuff just to hear the Tae Tews more. Hmmmm....
8. Departure Imitation: One day, Lily grabbed Aunt Kah Kah's red purse, slung it over her shoulder, came up to me, gave me a kiss, waved and said "Bye bye!" and walked off. I realized she was copying my departure routine. It's amazing what she picks up on simply by observance (amazing and SCARY; I consider all this a warning of things to come).
9. Acting School: As we've learned with the occasional Temper Tantrum, Lily is quite the accomplished actress. She has fine-tuned her acting craft with facial expressions, recently. "Surprise" is a wide-eyed open mouth expression, "Happy" is a big cheesy smile and "Mad" is a narrowed-eyed grunt action.
10. Nontoys = Favorite Toys: Specifically, poker chips and cards. Yes, I can safely say this is the most use our poker chips and cards have ever seen. We're raising her right, what can I say? She loves the colors, textures and portability of the cards and chips. Plus the chips make a fun noise when she drops them which happens a lot as she inevitably tries to carry too many (see #1).
11. "Mine": A new word to Lily's recent vocabulary list. This has now replaced "Please" and "Tae Tew". Hear that sound? Yes, that's the Terrible Two Train pulling into our living room!
3 comments:
Great list...almost like, ummm, what's it called, hmmm, oh yeah, SCRAPBOOKING!!!! You're a natural, kid.
Come on, join the dark side. I could use your journaling help - Monica knows all too well.
I love reading all these "doins" by Lily. She is just so cute...I think you made up the tantrum part! :)
I second Cindy's comment. Audrey likes the bye bye game too. She gets her doll stroller, looks at me and waves as she heads off in the opposite direction.
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