Silly Willa

It's been a long time since I just did a post about Willa and where she is right now. I want to remember what she is learning and what she thinks is funny these days.

She loves to eat oatmeal in the morning. This morning she found it particularly hilarious to eat her oatmeal with two little green spoons from her tea set. You can also see that she has a water in her tea cup. Can you tell that the water is cloudy because she has been dunking oatmeal in there and then still eating it? Yuck.

Typical baby hoarding - takes apart toilet and hides letters inside.

I looked over one morning and she was jamming out on the keyboard with her sunglasses on, a pacifier, and a little teacup and spoon.

We went to our ward primary activity on Saturday. She got to ice a sugar cookie. I've made bar sugar cookies, but not cut-out, iced cookies before (too much work) so she didn't quite know what to do with it at first, but she soon learned to lick all the frosting off.

Ryan and I had to speak in church on Sunday. He snuggled around her on the couch watching Caillou and eating pancakes while I worked on my talk at the computer.

These days, Willa LOVES Caillou! It is her television show of choice these days. She also loves her little Minnie Mouse doll from Aunt Shannon and likes to take it in the bathtub with her.

Willa loves to be outside or be going somewhere. Sometimes in the car when we are driving one direction, she will start saying, "No, no, no" because she wants to go somewhere else like the park. I'll be glad to get out of this apartment if only for the reason that it is an ordeal to get to and from the car. I don't mind the distance, but it's a battle every time because she wants to stay outside and play and do everything herself.

She likes to play pretend. Her favorites are pretending to give Lambchops food to eat or drink. She also likes pretending to put them to bed. She also like me to pretend to go to sleep. Whenever she finds something that she probably shouldn't be playing with, she immediately looks at me, starts backing away saying "bye bye", and then finally runs into the other room with her prized booty. I love when this happens with stuff that I don't care if she plays with - like cotton balls, or old newspaper ads. She can also put her own shoes on successfully sometimes!

She's still not talking a lot and it is frustrating her a little more. The speech people are coming tomorrow to evaluate her. She does, however, know almost all the alphabet. She can recognize about 20 letters, if I ask her to find them, she can point them out to me. She likes numbers and can count to two :), and is starting to recognize more. She knows all her colors and shapes. She just sees things and wants to know what they are. Her favorite book is Dr. Suess's ABC's. We had been reading it for a while when I realized that she could actually recognize a few letters, after that I started helping her more and working with her to pick them out.

She knows her timeout corner and can point to it shame-faced when asked. We've only had to do it twice, but I have threatened more than that (mainly when we have friends over). She loves to play with friends at their houses. I am learning to invite more friends over here, because it is much harder to share your own toys than to play with someone else's!

I feel like she has a very silly personality and loves to be in on the action. She has started being very sad when Ryan leaves - mainly because she thinks he is going out to play without her. She tried to play hooky from nursery yesterday. She was making such a fuss that I wondered if she wasn't feeling well, but I soon realized that she just wanted to play outside instead. No dice, I made her go back inside and told her that we were at church.