Brooke has been doing so many new things that I cannot keep up. She says so many new words that I cant even keep track of them all. But, there are a few things she is doing that deserve a mention :)
- Brooke has been turning off the lights in our family room (so it is dark) and then pointing to the lit Christmas tree ... saying "woah". She also points to the tree every morning and insists I turn it on. She is going to really miss it when we take it down!
- She has been really into dancing and has found some new moves. These include: spinning, arm flapping, bouncing, something similar to the running-man with fast feet movement, butt shaking, belly wiggling, and squatting. Often these moves are performed in combination.
- She has recently discovered two things: her tiptoes and her tongue. She now does much of her walking on her tiptoes, and 50% of the time she is simultaneously poking her tongue out. Its pretty hard to look at her seriously now.
- She has started saying "bite" a lot, for "take a bite". She began this when she was asking me for whole/big pieces of food she could bite herself versus me breaking up into little pieces. For some reason, "bite" became another word for something like hungry or more. She will interchange "more" and "bite" when she is asking for food. BUT, she has added the movement of her hand to her mouth when she says "bite". Nobody taught her this, but I guess she just wants to be really clear that she wants to put some food into her mouth :)
- Similar to the last item, she has begun to use the word "more" for things other than food. Today she did it twice. First, I was dancing with her to a silly song. The song stopped, she looked at me and said "more". So, we continued to dance until Mommy got really tired. Later, Daddy was tickling her and blowing on her belly and feet. Every time he stopped she would look at him (very seriously) and say "more". Guess she hasnt learned that you are supposed to say "no more" to tickling!
- Stacking and Iserting: Brooke is really into stacking things on top of each other, and placing objects inside one another. Whenever she has two objects, she will try to balance them on top of each other and/or place one inside the other. This also includes herself - as she trys to place herself into every box and basket in the house. This new interest is pretty common with her age, and we are helping build her skills with some new lego blocks. It only took her a day to figure out their purpose and she spends a lot of her time now trying to get them to connect together (although she spends more of her lego time dumping all of the blocks out of the bag onto the floor, and then picking them up and putting them back into the bag).
New Words:
wheee!
baby
waddle (what a penguin does)
Baa (previously forgotten)
Elmo (thought it was a fluke, but she definitely says it)
Hi (previously forgotten)
Bite
