Oh my word, ya'll. My baby is a full-blown, busy, active toddler. Complete with temper tantrums. How does that sweet newborn stage vanish so quickly?
This girl is into anything and everything. She prefers to run everywhere, and do most everything herself. Though she cannot say "my do it" like her sister did, she insists on doing things herself by pushing our hands away when we try to help. She is quite the adventurous little climber, and she also has a facination with toilet water that keeps us on our a-game around here.
Whenever Brooklyn disappears (not that it ever happens in my house since I'm able to closely supervise my children every second of every day, mind you), she can usually be found inside the front door looking out. She is facinated by the great outdoors.
Brooklyn now says "Uh-oh" and "bye-bye" with the appropriate meanings. She can also say "Mama" and "Dada" although not necessarily correctly. She sometimes says "joo" for juice. She uses signs for "more" and "all done." She is about to meet her first speech goal (after months of hard work!) of making five non-speech sounds spontaneously during play, so we are getting super excited about that.
Brooklyn and Savannah play very well together. They thoroughly enjoy each other and are going to be the best little buddies. Savannah is protective and Brooklyn adores her and wants to do everything she does. It brings such joy to hear them making each other laugh. And about as soon as you realize how proud you are of them, one of them hits the other one, and its all downhill from there. Lets just be honest. But you take what you can get.
Brooklyn has quite the mischevious streak that is emerging. She is continually "messing with us" and it definitely keeps us guessing, and keeps her laughing. The other day we were trying to feed her, and she would sit there with her mouth open until you got the food right up to her, at which time she would promptly close her mouth so that you spilled what was on the spoon. Then she would just laugh.
She also has started to try to charm her therapists out of making her work. Today when she was supposed to be making the "b" sound to get her therapist to blow bubbles, she decided she would just give her therapist a big ole smooch instead. Unfortunately, it didn't work and she still had to ask for the bubbles. But it was cute.
We sure are thankful for this girl... from the curls on the back of her neck to the pudgy belly that hangs over her diaper. From the slobbery kisses to the sticky hugs, we just couldn't ask for anything better. We love our sweet Brooklyn, even if she does remind us that its the quiet ones you have to watch out for.
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