22 months!!

This month it's almost as if a light switch has gone off.  I'm not even sure I can keep up with all the words she is saying now.  

• Can repeat the alphabet after us and tries to say them by herself (A,B,C,O,P,Q, T,O,A,B,C etc..)
• LOTS of new words:  beans, rice, night night, egg, happy, broccoli, out, snow, poopie, i know, pizza, peas, ice, car, plane, walk, Grover, rock, park, plate, tofu, bananas, avocado, pancake, birdie, boots, star, noodles, kiss (along with a MUAH! at the end), on, off, bubbles, open it, goose, hen, piggy, fishy, ducky, horsey, ruff ruff, meow, neigh, quack quack, oink, LOVE YOU (melt me).  I probably didn't even get them all.  
• Loves to tell people to 'go away'.  It used to only be Maya that she told to go away.  Now, it's everyone she sees in public that she feels is in her space.  We'll be at the grocery store or Target and there will be someone who passes us on the aisle and she tells them to go away.  Quite embarassing.  
• Loves to throw things in the trash.
• When she drops her Popo, she asks me to put it in the bath (run water over it) to wash it off.
• Really dislikes being in the stroller or the wagon.  Would prefer to walk by herself.  
• Her mystery word is ' bobby'.  We think it means 'Big Bird'.
• Loves her friends and asks for Luca, Elena and Noah all the time. 

Impossible to get her to pose for a picture in her chair.

Loving Little Gym

Loves hats all of a sudden.

Berit & Luca.

Little Gym with Noah, Luca & Elena

Oh, and did I mention that we got a fish?  We said that Berit could name it, and whatever came out of her mouth first would be the fish's name.  When we asked her what she wanted to name her fish, she first said 'Butt' (don't know where she heard that one) and we said...'OK, whatever is the next thing to come out of her mouth'.  When we asked her again what she wanted to name the fish she said 'Moo'.  So, Moo it is.  

We're bound to get a foot of snow any day now....

The last week has been perfect (weather-wise), at 70 degrees and sunny.  It seriously feels like Spring has sprung, and I feel like a trip to Home Depot is in order so I can plant a garden.  However, I know this is a fluke, and I won't be spending any money on flowers anytime soon.  According to my favorite local weather gal, March is typically the snowiest month in Denver...so I know the snow is going to hit us at some point...but until then, we will be outside.

Also, just for fun, here's the little Bean in her favorite sleeping position.

And here she is doing her favorite past-time...JUMPING (sorry for the rated X photo).

Big A & Granny

Berit had a visit from Granny and Big A this past weekend.  She certainly put to use some of her newest words.  She loved calling for Big A, and went into the guest room looking for him after they had left and wanted to talk to him last night before bed.  It was so cute, and Big A got a kick out of it too.

modeling her new outfit from Granny.  Lily & Joy have one too!

Reading with Big A.

Wearing Granny's shoes

Sitting through a 4 course meal at Paggliacci's!

Sharing bread with Daddy.

Of course as soon as Granny and Big A left, the weather turned beautiful.  We spent time outside the past two days practicing hunting for eggs so she can be ready for the big day next month.

And of course, as I write this, it is snowing again.  Bring on Spring.