Elizabeth at 21 months...

Thought I should give a little update on what Elizabeth has been up to lately...

She's just growing so fast and thinks she needs to do everything Madilynn does. They love to read books together too. Just today they were sitting together in their room reading, then this afternoon (while they are supposed to be going to sleep) I went in their room to find Elizabeth laying in Madilynn's bed right beside her and they were looking at a book - so cute. She calls Madilynn "Ma-Ma" all the time. It sounds very different from when she says, "Mommy".

Elizabeth loves to give hugs and kisses and lots of times she's the one who will ask for a hug! She can say and identify her elbow, arm, and knee now. She still calls fingers and toes "wee". I'm not really sure why except from the this little piggy rhyme.

Yesterday while Madilynn was at school Elizabeth had fun playing with the jewelry all by herself! She missed Madilynn so much while she was gone. When I was getting her out of the car to go in and pick up Madilynn she said, "Yeah! Ma-Ma".
The last few weeks she's been starting to show an interest in the potty. She can say, "pee pee on the potty". We'll ask her and take her and she's gone several times, but I'm not sure she knows before she needs to go yet. Now she'll tell me when her diaper is wet, or she'll say "pee pee on the potty" and I take her in there and she's just gone in her diaper. But, we're working on it! As she gets more and more used to it, hopefully she'll figure it all out.

She loves to play outside. She likes to explore and check everything out especially rocks. She says, "rock", and she'll normally carry at least one around with her the whole time she's outside. Occasionally I've caught her with one in her mouth. She can swing on the big girl swing and go down the slide all by herself. She'll also ask for "chalk" and color on the driveway with Madilynn.

She can differentiate between milk, juice, and water. She loves her milk with her meal almost too much. And lately it's been like chugging the milk from her sippy cup and not eating very much. So today at lunch I gave her a big cup with milk for the first time...
She did well drinking out of it, but we had two little spills. One spill was just after this picture was taken!

We've been starting to work on colors and ABC's lately. She can say a lot of the colors just repeating me, but she's not identifying them just yet.

Monday I got a couple of videos of her saying some new words that she just said that day for the first time. The first video is her saying, "yellow", just repeating after me. And the second video is of her saying, "Jasmine". She and Madilynn had been reading a princess book in their "tent" and Madilynn got her to say it!

Also, she'll point to my belly and say what sounds like "baby" and other times she just says, "belly button". We've tried to tell her there's a little baby in Mommy's belly, but I don't think she really gets it. She is noticing though, that it's not very comfortable on my lap anymore, and my belly is kind of in her way. When we read books together I've had to sit her up beside me instead.

Well, that's all I can think of right now, but I'm sure there are lots of other things she's doing or saying. I just know she is changing so fast right now and learning new things daily and it's so fun for me to see!