Yipes it’s been a long time! Makenna is getting ready to start college. Juuuust kidding. Some days I feel like its not long before that time is here though. She is growing so fast and learning to talk even faster.
Her first word was “ball” about 2 months ago…aside from the dada gibberish. She would pick up the balls from her ball pit and walk around the house holding it in the air saying “baw baw baw”. So cute. But I guess now that she has moved onto bigger and better words, she doesnt want to say it anymore. It seems like in the past 2 weeks she has been learning faster and now says (on a regular basis) “hi”, “juice” (which sounds like “Zeus”), “shoes” (which sounds like “Sues”), “Dad/Daddy”, “Mom/ Mommy”, “Woah”, “yeah”. And there is something she said all the time, that I cant figure out what she is trying to say but it sounds like a 3 letter word for butt. haha. Also randomly she will repeat other words like Grandpa (Bampa), Nana, Riley, Mike, Michael (I know most people wont believe my 13 month old said Michael but she did, she repeated it right after my brother in law called his son, Michael. I have witnesses!). Every day its something new. Yesterday was “yes”. Usually she shakes her head yes but today she repeated it right back to me. My little jabbermouth :) .
She can also point out her eyes, nose, mouth, teeth, belly, hair and also the same on me. She also signs a lot more now. She signs for “eat”, “milk” “all done” and yesterday she started “more”. The part that amazes me is that I will go a while without practicing more signs then all of the sudden she will just do them- like “more”, I hadn’t shown her that one in weeks and she just did it out of no where when I asked her if she wanted more. She understands so much of what we say also. If you ask her if she wants to take Neiko outside she says a “yeah!” and goes right for her shoes or his leash… then waits at the back door. She just loves to learn and interact with people. We are trying to work on colors right now since she picks up on everything so fast. I hope she is always this interested in learning!
She definitely takes after her father with the extreme stubbornness and silliness (is that a word? O well, it is now). And she is a little trouble maker! She loves to challenge us, and totally thinks its funny when she gets in trouble. Its so funny watching her giggle…and so hard to fight back the urge to laugh back. And she climbs like a little monkey- just like her Daddy. However she is just like me when it comes to being scared of random things- Like the sound of her Daddy’s truck roaring down the driveway, she was afraid of Elmo at her birthday party (totally something Im afraid of too!).
At every stage of her life I think “this is the fun part” but it just keeps getting more fun. I love how she can communicate and interact. I love watching her little personality grow. I really don’t know what we did all those years without her!
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