20 Months

Libby is twenty months old now. That means in four months she will be 2! I feel like she just was four months old a couple of weeks ago! She is quite the little package. She talks, and she talks with inflection and with so many facial expressions. She bellows, she demands, she yells, she whispers, and she says things repeatedly until she is acknowledged. She imitates almost anything Emma does or says, the utmost compliment to Emma. It's so funny to watch her try to do Emma's gymnastics tricks, or try to sweep the floor, or color a picture.

She has a special place in her crib where she always sleeps, with her head smashed up in the corner closest to the door. With or without the bumper, on her back or her belly, her head is always there and her blanky is tucked up under arm. One day I will sneak in and try to get a picture . . .

This week she learned to open the refrigerator. Nice! I can sit on the couch and send her to get her own cup of milk! She loves the Christmas tree and has pulled several ornaments off, but she really hasn't messed with the tree as much as I worried she would. That's probably because all the ornaments are out of her reach. Only the top two thirds of the tree have ornaments, it's gaaawgeous. I took her to the grocery store where she said Hiiii! to everyone we passed. She is a friendly, happy, hungry girl. She eats all day long. Nack, nack! (snack) she says, while she bangs her open hands on the pantry doors. She is also feisty. Maybe it's the red hair, maybe she needs an anger management seminar, but she hits, she pulls hair, she yells and cried with the best of them. It makes Emma more feisty and soon I have two yelling girls hitting and kicking each other. Lawd help me. Who do I send to time out? How do I prevent this, and should I? Should I let them fight it out? We have a lot to figure out over the next, um, 14 or so years.

Libby can say anything we ask her to, but some of the more recent things she has said are: loveyou!, ummmm, candy, Bella, house, muffin, movie, show, tree, light, on, in, out, help, alldone, allgone, rockrock, 'mon (come on) stop, nomommy, stopEMMA!