Baby Babbles

Lark can now say please (accompanied with the sign) and can sign Thank you and Good and Where. She signs Eat alot lately, usually while saying Chee (chicken). She differentiates b/w rice (rrr) and millet (mee) and really likes brushing her teeth with Momma in the morning and Daddy in the evenings. She can say Bath (bat/bah) and Mall (mawh).
She cut all 16 of her front teeth and is currently working on her 2-year-old molars....

Wordy Little One

Lark can now differentiate. She can state whether something is little (yee-dle) or big (beedt), and can ask you be up or down, and have something put on or off (unfortunately both on and off are the same word in her mind.....odddft)
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Toddling Beauty

Lark's really coming along in the walking/running thing. She's popping herself up from a sitting position now. She can also say Please, and adores chicken (to a very obsessive extent). We tried bananas for the first time today, and she loves puffed rice for car rides.
She nurses her dollies alot now, and loves playing with her friends on playgrounds, or especially at the splashparks :)
She's got her Dadda's climbing gene, though, which freaks me out!

Solids

Lark's officially into solids now :) Almost 16 months of EBF and now she asks for and eats and swollows millet, chicken, peas, carrots (cut or pureed) apples, grapes, and blueberries.

Finally Doing it!

Lark signed Thank You for the first time today!!!
She also can say Chi, for chicken, and Buh/Puh for grape (Puh also doubles as the word for peas, lol)

Increasing Vocabulary = Tired Momma

Lark can now do small sentences. She recently told me she wants to go to the park. "Babee gogogogogo puh".

She's also eating often. She particularily likes cherries (stolen from Grammy) and grapes. Life is easier when I wait until she wants food and can handle small chunks of it.

She just got over a wicked flu (lasting from last Thursday until Monday) and we finally got to see Uncle Kyle again. Lark's been clingy since I helped my last doula client labor (which lasted roughly 9 hours). Lark's been doing well with her Auntie Kelsey babysitting with Momma and Dadda in the house playing games in the kitchen. She's also started nursing her baby dollies and showing a specific preference for things by speaking. She's learned to shake her head for no, and to say Yesh or Yah.

More later, barely have time on computer nowadays :)

Heat Fussies

So Lark's been clingy like a creeper vines since Randy went back to work....sigh. Having Dadda home for 9 days makes her really miss him when he's gone now....Plus she's trying to scale back to one nap a day, which means we have about 2 hours before bedtime thast she tries to go to sleep during (but if we let her, she'll be awake in an hour and not go back down 'til 10pm or 11pm)

I'm going nutty!

On the plus side, we got to see Grampy again to cheer him up after surgery, and Auntie Kelsey's sitting with Roni (my old student) for Larklet this Sunday so I can game with the boys. afterwards I'm going for a MUCH NEEDED Mom's Night Out to Melting Pot in Irvine :)

Lark is verbalizing much better, she is really getting good at saying Go and her signs are getting clearer, she will not just do them on command, she can instigate with them, like she tries to open a can and can't and looks up at me and says Mama and signs Help. It's awesome to watch her brain develop.

Got some more EBB clothies too....I loooove the doggy one, she is constantly rubbing the dipe against her face (clean) and pointing out the dogs on there when she's wearing it :P :)

Oh and Lark ate an apple on Monday :) Her first real food :D