June has been so deserving of her own post for a long time. I was going to do it at 18 months, but it never happened. She is just such a firecracker. She adds so much spunk and laughter into our lives. I want to record some of her funny antics before I forget them. She is picking up new words nonstop and loves to try new sounds if she is in the mood. She loves to sing along with the hymns in church or anytime other people are singing, or if there is music on in the car. When we are having family prayers or blessing the food, she folds her arms and likes to make eye contact with a very triumphant look on her face that communicates, "Look how cool I am doing this." She also babbles along with the prayer and pretends she is saying it.
Many mornings when I shower, I put some Baby Einstein on the computer for her to watch in our bedroom. The other day I could hear her singing along and laughing. I checked in on her and she was singing to Beethoven's Fifth and then the Viennese Waltz. She loves those songs and gets a big kick out of singing "Duh duh duh DAHHHHH". It's not quite on pitch, but she does loves to yell out that last note with a big smile on her face. For the waltz, she mainly likes to sing the last four notes as "Ha ha Ha ha". It's super cute and of course, I think she's a super prodigy music child, but really she'll sing along with anything. She's just not as inhibited as other babies so she belts it if she feels like it. If I sing either of those little tunes, she'll recognize it and join in.
June is obsessed with shoes. I'm not sure if it's the shoes or the promise that we might be going somewhere. She brings me several pairs a day, starting early in the morning and says "shoes, shoes". She has also started experimenting wearing Willa's shoes and she points her little toes so cutely as she puts them on herself. She has also decided that she's big enough for the princess dress-up shoes, which are high heels! She holds onto the wall and wobbles slowly forward in them. Last night at the Thalman's, she came to me to take off her regular shoes, walked to their toy bin, found princess shoes, brought them to me to put them on, and then waddled off in search of the "big girls" who were already in their princess attire. It's amazing what the second child picks up on so early! Willa didn't really know about any of this stuff until the last year or so.
June has just discovered some negative words to say and they make me laugh every time. The first is "Dop!" (stop). She uses it multiple times a day when I'm trying to change her diaper, get her dressed, do her hair, or basically do anything that she doesn't want me to do. She uses it very appropriately and in context. The other thing she just started in the last week was shaking her head and saying, "Uh huh" for No. It's helpful and funny and annoying. "June, do you want a cheese stick?" "Uh, huh" - very helpful. "June, come get your jammies on." "Uh, huh" - not helpful, but funny.
She's been sleeping better, but is still the pickiest eater. I can get her to gnaw on a raw carrot and last week she ate a few peas from my spoon, yay!!! Usually, her diet consists of toast, oatmeal, cheerios, yogurt, apples, peanut butter, and grapes. She was doing well with Dino chicken nuggets, which I liked to give her for protein. We finished those off and replaced them with Mickey ones this week and she won't touch them.
She's started the phase of needing to do everything that Willa does. She loves her blankie and her animals. She loves to role play with animals and makes them hug whatever we're looking at in a book or she'll try to feed them with her spoon. She's doing better with Ryan and she is so-so on nursery. We love our June!
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