No 16th month picture this time, but I wanted to tell you all about yourself before I forgot. At 15 months, you could identify your hands, feet, tummy/belly, belly button, arms, hands, face, and mouth. You could also stomp, stand on one foot, and do something that resembled a hop.
Now, at 16th months, you can also identify your hair, eyes, ears, nose, teeth, fingers, toes, feet, and arms. Your new words include "flower", "baby", and "puppy", and you point them out whenever you find one (either live ones out in town or pictures on magazine covers or in books. You also repeat "ears, mouth, toes, and eyes" when pointing out your body parts.
We made the jump into potty training after we got home from D.C., and it is going about as well as can be expected. You wear thick panties and a cover when we are at school and out running errands, and you go naked when we are at home. For the most part, while you are very happy to sit on your little potty chair, you prefer to "hold it" until you are in a diaper (which I put you in at nap time). If by chance you can't "hold it", you become extremely distressed. We make it to your little toilet in time about 60% of the time.
At school, you LOVE independent snack time. I no longer feed you in your booster chair (with snapping tray table). When you get hungry, you retrieve a napkin, place it on the snack table, peel your own banana, and throw away your trash after eating. You eat at a table with the big kids during lunch time, and I have made a point to give you a spoon and something soft that requires spooning in your lunch each day.
If you had a slightly longer attention span, I think you might be able to complete an entire stencil by yourself, but you would rather have six incomplete stencils each day. You retrieve all the items necessary to make a collage (art mat, glue stick, tray, collage bits, paper), but after smearing glue all about the paper, you have very little interest in placing the collage bits on the paper. Painting holds your interest a bit longer, and you can set up and clean up mostly independently. Your newest trick (within the past two weeks) is using a spray bottle independently when washing windows. You can also put together Color Box 2 when you are in the right mood.
Daddy teases about you not talking too much, but I think you're pretty smart, regardless. For example, after not playing with play dough for a few weeks, you noticed a cookie cutter in the baking drawer. You immediately, retrieved your play dough mat, bucket of play dough, rolling pin, and cookie cutters, and you sat down to play with it all. This afternoon, you opened a large Rubbermaid container to find another toy I had not had out the past few weeks. You proceeded to pull apart the set of six white eggs (with an orange flower, blue star, red arrow, etc. in the middle), find the matching pieces, put them back together, and place them all back in the Rubbermaid. I was very impressed when I asked you the other day to bring me "the red and blue ball the pulls apart and all the yellow shapes fall out" and you searched through your toys and brought it to me.
I am confident enough in your climbing abilities that I no longer block the bottom of the staircase. I also let you go down the stairs by yourself, but I stay two or three steps in front of you, just in case you fall.
You are such a delight, and your Daddy and I love you so much!!!
xxoo,
Mommy
Clara's Second Birthday Party
(You attended her first birthday as well.)
Your first professional haircut.
xxooo
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