19 months

Anya is 19 months old today. She's spending the day at grandma and grandpa Lodwig's since we're currently getting windows installed. I've been in the basement all morning priming the walls of our soon(ish)-to-be-completed den in the basement. I'm beat. So this month's update will be kind of short.

Locomotion

I can't think of much here. Oh. The Little Gym is going well. I think a few days after I wrote that Anya hated the balance beam, she quickly took to it just to prove me a liar. It's one of her favorites now. Unfortunately, she gets a little too cocky on it and she'll get a big surprise one of these days that she runs up to it without an adult quickly noticing in time to spot her.

Speech

Just continuing with more sentences. Now she's starting to say non-sensical things and also gets descriptive about stuff. The other day she said "Go see dada at work. (pause) Dada at work with a refrigerator" I'm not sure what that was about. I've also noticed that the more she speaks in sentences, the harder it is to understand her. She sort of jumbles words together sometimes or forgets to annunciate. Did I mention this already on here? I can't remember if I did or if I just talked ot Chris about it. Anyway...

She can more or less sing the alphabet song now. I say more or less because she starts adding groups of letters sometimes where they're not supposed to go, and then continues on with the song. It's cute. And then the "now I know my ABCs, next time won't you sing with me" part, she butchers and I have no idea what she's saying. Again, cute.

Other development

Anya has taken interest in the potty again. Ever since her friend Eva came over the other week and Anya saw her (barged in on her) using the potty, she has been all about it. I just have been letting her use the potty only when she requests it and she’s had a handful successful and semi-successful goes at it since she saw Eva. It’s like magic. Honestly, I don’t think she’s quite ready yet for the real potty training push, but I feel it’s around the corner. Is it creepy to ask your friends if your kid can watch their kid use the bathroom?

She is afraid of bees. And flies. And ants. And apparently squirrels. We're not sure why. We're trying to help her get over it, but I think it'll take some time.