Seriously, this girl is growing fast!
I recently made several attempts at trying to teach Julia the answer to the question she gets asked fairly often: "How old are you?"
I kept trying to get her to say one and hold up one finger. She'd humor me for a while, but then, whenever I'd quiz her on it out of the blue and ask her how old she was, she always had the same answer, and it was never "one." It was some word I couldn't quite make out and it sounded like it started with a "T." Finally, I realized what she was saying:
"Teenmonths"
She was imitating my actual answer to the question people ask, which is never to say "one" and always her age in months. So, I adjusted my strategy for my little Miss Smartypants and encouraged her to say, "Eighteen months," and, ever since, she knows the answer! Until July 12, I guess ;-)
- Umm, Julia's vocabulary is crazy large. We have no idea how many words she knows, and were guessing (probably conservatively) that it's 500-600 words. We recently filled this online test out to try to figure out how many words she knows because we were curious. We only clicked boxes for words we were certain she knows and uses... any we were unsure of we left blank. The result was outrageous: 2,640 words. I'm doubtful that it's that many (probably error involved, since December 2010 was the absolute youngest birth month the test currently allows for), but, let's just put it this way: it's large.
- Julia's also doing well stringing together her words. When she is wondering where someone is, like Daddy when we're playing hide and seek, she'll say, "Where did Daddy go?" Or, for instance, the other day, my mom told me that she called out to Elizabeth, saying, "Lizzy! Swim with Julia!" Or, she'll grab a book and tell me she wants to "sit in Mommy's lap." I especially love hearing prepositions; so sophisticated!
- Julia has become more polite in some ways, and less in others ;-) She has been better about saying please, thank you, you're welcome, excuse me, and other pleasantries unprompted, although she still needs reminders much of the time. But, Julia has also begun to enjoy tell people exactly what she wants them to do and where... "Mommy, dance! Right here!" she'll say, as she points to a precise place near her. Bossy pants.
- Julia can count to 20 now with decent accuracy. She still doesn't quite get the concept of counting, though, so she just points her finger indiscriminately as she counts, rather than pointing at each object one by one.
- Julia learns music lyrics really quickly. She only has to hear a song a couple times before she's singing the words. She knows a ton of songs!
- Julia is quite a climber! She's all over the furniture. I think it is only a matter of a few months before we are forced to switch her from a crib to a bed, because I think she'll likely soon be able to climb out.
- Julia still enjoys bathing, but she is REALLY into showers.
- Speaking of being into things, when we suggest something she loves (like a shower), she gets really excited and breathes in this funny, low-pitched breath and her eyes get wide and she shouts out whatever we suggested (i.e. "SHOWER!") and starts saying things like, "Yes! Okay! Let's do it!" So funny.
- A recent fav is ice cream ("cream"). If I had to guess, it will be a lifelong fav (read: slight obsession). She is our daughter, after all.
- Julia has the funniest facial expressions. Lately, she's been into doing "Beam lips." If you don't know what they are, Julia and I can show you sometime.
- Julia loves to be imitated. She laughs and laughs. Oh, I love her laugh. Most beautiful sound in the world. Lately, after her bath, we lie together on my bed and read... and tickle a lot. She loves to be tickled and laughs so hard. I love it.
- I posted about Julia's potty a loooonnnng time ago... and it still goes unused. We try to encourage her to use it, but she does not want anything to do with it. Oh well. I guess diapers keep her humble ;-) (And me humble, I guess, since I just realized that I'm being quite a Braggypants tonight... can you imagine how extra obnoxious I'd be if she were already pottytrained? ;-)
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