So Many Sentences

Lark is becoming more and more verbal. Now she puts together 3 word sentences :) Today as I was feeding her some cassarole at my mom's house Lark piped up into a lull of our conversation.
"Baby Food Hot"
Mom and I were so amused and stunned. We'd been talking about my mom's phone, not the food at all. Lark is independantly making sentences about her own experiences :D

3 word sentences and more

Lark is growing so fast, and I seem to be slowing down. I blame pregnancy and her soon-to-be sibling :D She unprompted can now count to 8 or 9. She can prompted count to 100. She unprompted said Thank you Daddy when he gave her applesauce form the fridge this morning. She has a fish she named Ariel, and loves her Mickey Mouse blanket and stuffed doll she got for an early Christmas present from Heather.

Toddlerhood Trials

Lark is quite stubborn (she gets it from her maternal grandmother!) and is particular about specific routines, ie: bedtime. For her to be willing to sleep she must have her jammies on, have the music on, have already toasted her toes, hands and nose at the heater fan (this is a new thing, sinc ethe cold weather, lol) and be snuggled up between randy and I. she also is showing strong preferences for which foods she'll eat. Yesterday, she ate nothing but avacados, two days before that she ate an entire box of strawberries. The only break she gets is in the car. Monotonous choices are limited to dried mangos, dried bananas, and puffed rice. (Once in a blue moon I'll bring something else, like chicken or something, but it's to bribe her to staying in the car longer) She is still a little carnivore, snarfing chicken, turkey, salmon, and steak (or hamburger). Her favorite food lately is peas. Frozen or cooked.

Keep Growing Up up UP

Lark's getting too big! She's out of her size 5 and 6 shoes now and into 7s! She's wearing a 5T jammie set for bedtime and 3-4T during the day. She loves repeating (have you tried living with a parrot who can follow you all day long?), and can say 'I want' unprompted (we're still working on what she wants though)
She can identify people by their picture and watches the slideshow of pictures on my computer screensaver with avidity and calls out who is in the picture. She also has QUITE the little opinions on what she will wear, eat and do :) She can name colors and count to three unassisted.

Smart Little Buggie

Lark 'went to school' yesterday. She was able to correctly identify different colors and shapes and put them into the proper book-puzzle spot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko04E7QL9ss

Lark's Wordcount

She is repeating most all words/word sounds we say to her. She can clearly repeat I, You, Me, My, Diddy (Disneyland), Yark (Lark), Maw (Mall), and shje adores repeating any and everything she can possibly hear :)

Lark's Diet Changes

SO I'm utterly nauseated by the sight/smell/idea of chicken (thanks to pregnancy), so poor Larklet will be eating steak/salmon now for her protien fix instead for the next 7 months, except on weekeneds, when Dadda will make her some (gag) chicken :)