Animal sounds and eating like a big girl!

Here are a couple videos of Reese showing her animal sounds and eating her cereal like a big girl. She can do a snake now too which sounds more like a 'th' sound instead of 's' but it's still pretty cute!

Big girl!

Reese is such a big girl these days and seems to be growing up by the second! She is becoming more and more independent and wants to do everything herself. She will sit there forever 'playing' with her shoes. Trying and trying and trying to put them on and take them off. If you walk over to help her she just pushes you away, saying "na na na" (no, no, no!). She loves to play in her highchair if you let her after she eats. She wants her bib off and straps unbuckled but doesn't want to get out. She'll sit there and try and do up the buckle by herself. Sometimes she turns around toward the window and says, "bye, da da" over and over.

She is getting pretty good at feeding herself with a spoon too. I give her the bowl of cereal and a spoon on her tray and she eats it by herself for the most part. If my hand is anywhere near the tray, it gets pushed away. Almost all of the cereal ends up in her mouth too! I don't think she likes to get too messy yet (yay for the clean up on my part!). We have a little video of it and will post soon.

It seems early to even start thinking about potty training but she has been telling us when she poops. We thought it was just coincidence at first when she looked at us and said "poo poo" but sure enough she had indeed. Since then, she has been telling us right before she goes, pretty consistently. Maybe we should introduce a potty?!

Reese loves all of her buddies so much. She is constantly giving them hugs and kisses and loves to tuck Ruby in before she goes to bed. She also has an obsession with hats. Ruby has to have a hat on most of the time and so does Reese. Which is odd since she won't leave a headband or bow in her hair no matter what! She tries to share her water and snacks with her buddies too. So funny!

Here are some of the latest pictures.

Chicken Pox

Well, Chicken Pox have come and gone. Luckily GS was here for the first couple days to help us figure out what to do! We kept Reese covered in calamine lotion and did daily oatmeal bath soaks. Seemed to help as much as possible I guess. Thank goodness her sleep wasn't interrupted by the itch. The pox were pretty bad on her back but her face wasn't too bad. All spots have scabbed and healed now so we've been enjoying our time outside of the house lately!