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Riley is just a delight to be around these days (as if she ever wasn’t). She’s very interactive and creative, and seems to learn something new everyday. She’s adding words to her vocabulary… now she waves and says “bye!” whenever we leave anywhere (including the park, which she likes to wave goodbye to). Her favorite word is “Bah” (ball) which she says over and over excitedly while pointing at a ball, or even a picture of a ball in a book. Whatelse… “pah” for pacifier. She’s even got a spanish word! Agua. Maricella, who takes care of her on Monday and Friday, is pregnant and always carries around a big bottle of water. Now, whenever Riley sees a bottle of water she points and says “ahwah.” She’s learning some signs too, which is REALLY great, because it helps her communicate what she wants, rather then just yelling (which she still does a lot of). She can sign eat, more, and milk really well. And she’s learning book, sleep, change (as in diaper. her teachers at school think she knows this one, but we haven’t seen it yet) and wash hands.
Lately Riley is really into stacking things. We have these great sturdy blocks from Andy and Kendra that on a good day she can stack 5-6 high. At school the other day she apparently stole a friends sippy cap and balenced it on top of hers. The teachers said she was so pleased with herself they felt bad taking it away. We’ll have to put up a video of her theading her wooden beads, it’s pretty amazing (well i think anyway). She’s still very into climbing around on her squishy play structure. The funny thing is she mostly like to just sit on the blocks. We have plenty of pictures and videos of her playing/sitting… they’ll be up soon. Her other favorite place to play is in our shower (without the water on). She’d play there all day if we let her. i think it’s a combination of the glass walls and door which she likes to press up against, and the step and seat which she can climb up and down, and all the shampoo bottles to play with.
Riley recently decided she wanted to start eating with a spoon, and she prefers her food to be in a bowl. We’re thinking maybe it’s because she sees us eating with utensils? She won’t let us feed her with the spoon, but she does like to try and feed us (well, only the food items she’s already rejected). Sometimes she’ll offer the food and when you go to take it she’ll snatch it back in the last second and jam it into her mouth with a big grin on her face. pretty tricky. When i say she likes to eat with a spoon I really mean try to eat with a spoon… I’d say about 50% of the food makes it to her mouth, and she definitly supplements quite a bit with her hands.
She’s still not walking. She’s taken a few steps occasionally when we distract her and take our hands away, and she can stand on her own for a long time (well, 10-15 secs), but she just doesn’t seem interested in walking. I guess she’s satisfied with crawling for now.
People keep asking for pictures and I swear we’ve taken some and they’ll be up soon!