20 months old!!

Our girl is 20 months old (or she was last week, but I got a little behind in blogging) and she is fiestier than ever! She is coming into her own and letting us know without a doubt that the terrible two's is all a myth...it starts at age 1. So what do you think I should do with this 3 month sized onsie when she finally grows out of it? Maybe bronze it like people used to bronze baby shoes back in the day? Or make something out of it? I don't know....

Some stats about our girl: She is moving from 12month sized clothes to 18month sized clothes. The 18m are huge on her right now, but will last her through the cold months. She is a size 4 in shoes and size 3 in diapers. We bought her some new onsies the other day and although she still fits in the 3m size, we bought her some nice cozy 12m sized, which she really needs to wear in order to keep her pants up. She's sill a skinny minny! She's is prone to tonsilitis as we've recently found out again and has ginormous tonsils which might need to be removed at some point. She has 16 teeth and either is in the process of getting her 2year molars or her teeth are just bothering her lately b/c she's been drooling and chewing on everything. She still perfers to drink milk/booost than eat, although has a penchant for salty snacks, cookies and ice cream.

Recently Reese started doing some hard time...in time out. She does not like time out (or tie oww as she calls it) but she knows exactly what to do to get herself into it. She has a hitting issue and sometimes a pinching issue, but we're working on it and hopefully she'll figure it out soon. When she's done with her 1minute of time out, she is told that hitting is not good behavior and then has to say that she's sorry and give hugs and kisses. She also has to show us that she knows how to do "nice touch" which she does.

Reese has started engaging in pretend play, which is adorable. She walks around "talking' on the phone using hand gestures and all. She likes to play with her baby dolls and spends quite a bit of time putting them to sleep, feeding them, wrapping them in blankets, and giving them hugs. She loves to take her other smaller dolls and make the hop hop hop around the house. She has also started pretending to take my (and her own) temperature in her ear just like the doctor does...which unfortunately shows how often we've been there lately. Paging Dr. Reese...Paging Dr. Reese!

Some things that Reese can now do is sing many of the words to her favorite songs, she can count to 7 (!!!), she can eat with a fork and a spoon, she can climb up and go down the slide at her school all by herself, she can color with crayons and knows which colors are blue, white, black, pink and purple, she can carry a bowl of snacks from the kitchen to the living room without spilling it, she can blow bubbles in the pool and sort of swim with a bubble on her back, and she can play games/songs where interaction is needed on her part without missing a beat, including initiating games of Simon Says. She knows when to "all fall down" and when it's time for thumbkin to "run away".

Some animals that Reese really likes and talks about all the time are chickens (her favorite), cats, kitty cats, doggies, puppies, elephants (e-ephans), butterflies (bufwies), goats, ducks (her second fave), alpacas, fish, horses and tons more. She's an animal lover!

She's still going to school 3.5 days per week, which will go down to 3 days per week mid-December. Her class has shrunk from 3 teachers and 12 kids to 1 teacher and 5 kids, although generally only 3 are there at a time. She is doing SO much better in the smaller class with the one teacher and has even made a good friend...a little girl named Riley who has red hair like Reese and is about a week older than her. Riley doesn't talk as much as Reese, but she's a wild girl who can run and climb as good as any 3 year old I've seen. They two of them are thick as theives in the class, and at any given time have been known to get into trouble together...remember the cheese doodles?

She knows tons of body parts and responses to questions we ask her. She can pretty much say any word we teach her and has more sign language now than she had before, although in typical Reese fashion, she will NOT perform when requested and chooses to show off her skills when you are least expecting it.

Things Reese says to us: No! Nooooooooo!!!, Don't like ____, I hiding, This is mommy's/daddy's, bye bye ____ (objects or names), treats for Paco, Can I have it?, Yaba Daba Doooo, where's the chicken/duck?, silly goose, that's funny, pool with daddy, I sorry, hugs and kisses, says Reese (when she's reading words), shower with mommy, go outside?, take off/put on, please/thank you...

...and my favorite thing that she says is "much!" which is her response to me every time I tell her "I love you Reese, soooooo much."