Soccer Dad

22 months

This morning at 1:15 AM she turned 96 weeks old.

I should clarify the story about the puppy from last time. No one put the puppy on her skirt. The puppy saw her sitting on the floor and, apparently fascinated inched up to her. She was none to pleased by the attention and backed away.

Teeth. Did I mention teeth? We'd been worried since her teeth had been slow in coming in. In the past month they've been popping up. Strangely, her molars have come in fully first, so she still has a great toothless smile. (Well there's one front tooth now.

When she was just learning to walk, she had a "tushie dance." Now she has a variation on that. If she sees a diaper wipe box, she sometimes will sit up and down it, bouncing! And she thinks it's very funny, going up and down and laughing all the time.

With two months left until her second birthday, she's decided to start being a two year old. She often runs away when I try to change or dress her. Neither task is easy any more.

One interesting thing she does, is that sometimes when she's dirty she'll go "..gusting" and (as I've noted before) bring us the diapers and wipes.

I played hide and seek with her a few weeks ago. First of all when I didn't follow her, she changed direction to try and catch me. The other thing, she did was when she couldn't find me she'd call my name. When I'd answer she followed my voice.

Her words and expressions keep coming.

She seems fascinated with the rain and for a short time would announce to us that it was "rennin'" outside. Now it sounds more like "raining." When something isn't the way it should be she says it's "broken it." Last night in the bath she was playing with toy frongs and going "up and down" making believe that they were jumping.

She is improving with eating implements. And she's not bad with a pen, though we're trying to convince that it's better to write on paper than on her skin. (She does try out nearly everything that's in her reach.)

It's clear that she understands more and more. Last night my wife gave her some laundry to bring down to her sister.

I love watching her walk. She still has that uneven walk that's adorable. And her laugh is, of course, infectious. As I wrote above, she's almost two. It's hard to believe!

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