This past month she has started standing independently (no-hands, no leaning) as a conscious action. She loves doing it. She also took three steps once, towards me as she had just signed nurse and meant business, but those were not on purpose it seemed and she didn’t really realize she had done it I don’t think – meaning she hasn’t worked on it again since.
One time she was standing in the bathtub she peed – she then looked at me and with a smile ‘cued’ herself with a ‘sshhhh’ and after I said “Yes, you peed” and patted my chest (our sign for pee) she looked seriously at me and did a ‘slow-clap’ styled one-fisted open-handed Tarzan style pee-sign. Meaning exaggerated slap – hand way out to her side and then in to chest, and with great force, about seven times. Very intensely serious at first, then with a big smile. Pretty hilarious. That’s the only time she’s signed pee yet, and she’s not interested in telling me before she needs to go, nor interested in using the potty/toilet when given the opportunity unless it is the early morn. And when I say early, I mean early… 5:00-5:30 is the norm, even a 4:30 once in a while. Sleep is an artform we have yet to master.
She loves to do double-eyed winks.
She has started working on the sound ‘L’ – perhaps so she can say Leona (still calls ‘mama’ after her when Leona leaves the room :P)
Can work on climbing up and down small step-ups for long periods of time – like the back of the bike at kindergarten, the wide steps at our front door, and rock-boulders. This built up to her actually climbing down the stairs from the 2nd floor (and then up them, and then down them, repeatedly). She used to crawl full speed over to the top of the stairs but never attempt to go over the edge. No more. Her technique isn’t just a backward butt-first crawl down, though it is getting there, and so though she hasn’t been close to falling down I am by no means confident enough in her stability to let her crawl freely. Of course.
She’s beautified the walls of the living room with markers (sorry mom!)…as did Leona once when we first moved in (in our old place it was ok to draw on the wall with the washable markers, but here there is string-wallpaper, and so the washable markers don’t wash off).
She enjoys us reading to her – which is new for us as Leona is also just now starting to enjoy reading actual stories, not just discussing the pictures on the pages.
She is super independent. Can keep herself occupied for long stretches of time, moving from one activity to the next. This is good, as Leona is needing more interaction in her play sometimes (cue video). They are good at wrecking havoc together though, too.
Her, Leona and Judge have been different degrees of sick the past week, and Eliana surprised me by starting to blow her nose when I wiped it. Though, sometimes she blows from her mouth instead of her nose. But she at least knows there’s supposed to be a blowing sound. Super cute.
Still loves getting herself into various containers - and Leona loves to get in on the fun with her. Eliana also enjoys pushing the containers around the floor as a sport.
Speaking of pushing, she also likes to push around stools, chairs, small toy cars, the xylophone on wheels, and more such fun.
She loves to paint with shaving foam in the bathtub.
She often starts off semi-fearless, then experiences some frights and calms it down, then builds it up again with more controlled actions. Example: She used to climb up onto their little art table all.the.time and sit there and play. Sometimes she would come down by herself just scooting backward right off the edge, but it was a bit higher than she was comfortable with (she would topple backward sometimes) so she stopped doing that. Then she stopped climbing up for a couple weeks after she fell off the table backward three times within a week and a half – each time into a container that is placed beside the table and so thankfully she didn’t get injured, ‘just’ scared. Now she has started climbing up again, and practicing getting down via the puff-stool, putting one leg over the edge of the table first, swinging it around hard until she meets the puff-stool, and then sliding down off the table.
She loves to eat with a fork.
There’s of course more, every day, many times a day, something new, something cute, something amazing. She is generally happy, loves Leona, knows what she wants, loves to play with us, LOVES to nod her head in affirmation when we ask her questions (unless it is something she definitely doesn’t want or need to do). Cutest thing ever. And oh how we love her. Did I mention that already?
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