smarty pants continued...

Lauren and Corinne had a Hugfest this weekend.

She's learning, learning, learning...

Other things she can do:

-hold up one finger if asked how old she is.
-point to all of the animals in her books if we say "point to the..." including: dog, cat, cow, sheep, goat, penguin, fish, horse, butterfly, pig, and many more.
-She also can point to Pooh Bear, Roo, Eyore, Tigger and Piglet in her winnie the pooh books.
-If asked, she'll tell you the sounds made by a dog, duck, cow, sheep, monkey and a few others.
- She'll wipe her mouth if you tell her to.
-Often I'll tell her to do something and she'll do it and it amazes me b/c I never expected her to know what I was talking about.
-Yesterday she counted my eyes. She pointed to one and said "wa" and the other and said "tu". We do this a lot but it's the first time she's said it.
-She's learning her manners! She now says "upa-pee" (up please) and "heh-pee" (help please)
-When she's pushing her baby stroller around the house, she will adjust the direction now rather than running into things.
-She learned to say Grandpa (Ga-pa), Pat, and turkey this weekend.
-If we tell her to do roundy-round, she'll spin in circles.
-She's really imitating our actions a lot these days.


On a funny and disgusting note, yesterday she was in the bathroom with me. When I got up off of the toilet, she instantly put her hand in the toilet to grab the toilet paper, I yelped and she pulled her hand out and put it in her mouth. Yuck!

words, body parts and other stuff

Lauren will be 15 months in a few days. I was writing down all of the words she can say last night and thought of 33. Almost all of which she uses, with 2 or 3 being words she has repeated back to me but hasn't really used on her own:
Buddy
Go
Open
up
down
dog
cow
duck
moo
quack
stuck
whoops
oops
eye
mama
dada
all done
hat
hot
bubble
ball
baby
bear
one
sock
night night
bye bye
hi
no
cracker
water
bottle
morning
potty


Also, when I tell her to point to certain body parts, she can point to:
eyes
nose
mouth
tounge
elbow
feet
hands
fingers
head
ears
belly
belly button



Of course, she seems advanced to me, but I'm sure every mother thinks that of their own child. When we go to gymboree, the other kids her age don't seem to be doing as much as she does. Then again, she's on the older side of the age group for her class. The class is 10-16 months. I'm moving her into the 16Mo+ class this week because I think it would be better suited for her. She wants to play with the kids but most of the kids are not as active (some are on the lower age range) and can't/won't play with her.


Last week she had her first major boo-boo. She fell face first on the cement and had a fat lip, two cuts on her chin and a scrape on her cheek below her eye. :( She was a trouper about it.

Everything is "hot" these days. Everytime she see's food or the fireplace or a candle it's hot hot hot. The food doesn't have to be hot for her to call it that, she even calls ice cubes hot. :)

She LOVES back scratches from Grandpa. She will sit still and let him scratch as long as he will scratch. She doesn't do that for anyone else.