In the 3 and a half months since Rose's first birthday, she has turned from baby into a spunky toddler. I've said this before and I'll say it again, it is SO fun to watch her grow! I can't believe that I grew this teeny tiny human being in my body, and that in the 15 months since then she has learned how to do so much! She was practically useless when she first got here and now she understands some of what I say to her. I know it's not much but if I say "Go find your elephant!" She can pick the elephant out from all the other animals she has. or if I say do you want to eat? She'll follow me into the kitchen doing sign language for "eat." She knows so many words in sign language it blows me away! And some of them I didn't even realize I was teaching her! For instance, one way to sign "I love you" is to cross your arms over your chest. One day as Ryan was leaving for work I took her arms and crossed them and said "I love you" as he was walking out the door. A few days later I was playing with Rose and I said, "Rose, I love you!" (just verbally, no sign language) and she crossed her arms over her chest, something she had never done before!
Babies are amazing! I feel so blessed to be allowed to be a part of her learning and growing process. I try to teach her little things here and there, but I'm not a perfect mom (not even close) and I'm not very consistent, but Rose just catches on to things and follows my lead. It's amazing and so cool to see.
Rose is very independent. She'll come up to me, lay her head on my shoulder for .3 seconds and then she's up and ready to go play again. She likes to "read" books to herself, or bring them all over to me for me to read to her. She's obsessed with her stuffed animals, and she has recently also taken a liking to any and all soft blankets.
She has taken a while to start standing on her own and she still isn't walking yet. I think she is a bit nervous about it, but she did finally stand up on her own a few weeks ago and she is gaining more and more confidence in her ability to stand every day.
What's funny to me about that is that she won't walk yet, but she LOVES to climb. She started climbing onto the couch months ago, and she will climb up and down and up and down over and over again just because she likes showing off her talents. She also just recently started climbing on top of a cooler that I had in front of a bookshelf to keep her from pulling stuff off the shelf, and now she can just reach even higher. *shakes head* She is forever trying to climb on top of and over anything she can. I found her in the bathtub a few weeks ago *cue panicked mom breathing* there wasn't any water in it but I have started shutting the toilet lids because the last thing I need is her climbing into the toilets and taking a nice "bath."
The only verbal words she has right now are "Mama" which is her name for Ryan. When she's looking for him she says it over and over again. She can also say "Uh oh" and "Wow!"
Her favorite book is "A Little Stuck" and when we say "Stuck!" She does this cute tongue click thing, because that's how she says "stuck".
I think that's pretty much all there is to know about Rose at this stage in her life. I'm sure I'm missing some things, that's the thing about babies is that they really are people with real personalities. I wish I could capture every little thing, but I have a chronic case of Mom brain, so I can't think of anything else to add. I guess all that's left to say is that she is our very favorite little girl in the whole world and we are so lucky to be her parents. <3
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| "You think I'm the one pulling these books off the shelf?" |
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| Rose has a love-love relationship with food. Look at that glisten in her eye. |
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| She has the BEST glare. You can't get the full effect here but Ryan had just cut off her supply of raspberry jam for her grilled cheese sandwich and she was NOT pleased. |
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| Is there anything sweeter than baby hands? |
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| Too many toys to play with, so little time. Got to eat those bananas as fast as humanly possible. |
