The Lee Family: Olivia at 22 Months

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Olivia at 22 Months

Our big girl is 22 months and growing up fast! She's still 35 inches tall but is now 31.2 lbs (up from 30.2 last month)! She's getting harder to carry around for any length of time, even though I love to hold her and she still runs to me with her arms up wanting up. She also claps her hands when she wants/needs me. She's coordinated for her age and loves to run everywhere she goes, especially in the house. She's still working on shaking her head up and down for "yes" and does it about half the time, although she'll often say "no" for something when she really means "yes." Her hair is finally growing and we've been able to pull it into pigtails in the past week! We still do the "fountain of hair" more often than not because it's easy and when her hair is in pigtails, it tends to fall and get in her eyes still.

Her words are coming along, but I'm pretty sure we are the only ones who can understand her. Her very first three word sentence was very fitting. It was "I want my shoes" She sure does love her shoes and often raids our closet for CK's and my shoes to parade around the house in. She can say "I want more" or will say "more, more, more" for anything she wants to do again or food she wants. If you ask a question like "Where's Buddy?" she'll say "I don't know." She can also say "I want mine" (usually snack time). She still uses animal noises for animals, except for a dog is a "puppy" and all bugs are "bee"s. She loves watching bugs, ants, lizards, bees and I try to encourage her to notice and watch these little guys.

In the past few weeks she's gotten into saying "Go pee pee" and running to the bathroom. There, I'm to strip her bottoms off (including any shoes) and set her on the toilet. She then usually packs a "peeee" sound (without any actual pee) and then wants to wipe, flush and get dressed. I love that she's getting used to sitting on the potty and the initiative she shows, but she often does it five or more times a day! It will click at some point and we are hoping it's soon!

She adores Sofia and Sofia is a great big sister. They have their issues, especially when Sofia is playing with her horses and Olivia walks up and snatches one of them. Sofia gets very annoyed with her and we are still working on the "give her another toy" but usually Olivia wants nothing to do with another toy. Otherwise, Sofia is great at playing hide-and-seek, giving Olivia horse rides on her back, and making silly faces at her to get her to laugh. Olivia loves to be part of it all and Sofia is great at including her. We are pretty sure we have the two best girls in the world!

Pigtails and cute shoes...what else does a girl need?