What's New with Rose?

Rose is growing and talking and everyday becoming more and more a little girl and not just a baby! It's bittersweet but also very fun.

What does she like to eat?
Blueberries, pancakes, scrambled eggs, smoothies, fish, cheese, avocado and prune sauce. She LOVES prune sauce.

What does she like to play?
She loves to take care of her stuffed animal, Lamby, and her other little snugglies and baby dolls. Lamby gets the most attention: snacks in Rose's highchair, fresh diapers, naps, and 'baths' in her emptied-out toy bins. She also really enjoying her Fisher-Price ring stacker and her shape sorter - she's getting very good at putting the shapes in.

She also loves to "play out-sigh??!?!" as she frantically asks everyday. She loves walking around outside, pointing and signing and speaking about her favorite things - signs for bird and flower, and excited "Gwass! Wa-wa!" We take her to Southern's campus - the main quad/plaza/whatever you call it is a big square of beautiful lawn with pathways all around with plenty of flowers, with stairs and a fountain nearby. We actually walked around there for an hour this morning. Our new MO is taking Rose outsides in both the morning and afternoon so she can explore and wear herself out, and then naps and sleeping come a lot easier!

Baths
She loves baths, especially because I just got her some Burt's Bees bubble bath, which smells really good and makes fun bubbles. She puts her bath toys in a "bow" or boat (again, an empty container from her toy shelf) and likes to sail them before capsizing into bubbles.

Books
Rose has very definitive opinions on books. She loves them and knows which ones she wants to read at what time. It's pretty cute. Bobby will hold one after another up for her to see and she will say, "No. No. No. No. YESH!" Recent favorites are anything by Dr. Seuss, Ellie (aka Oliver) the Elephant, a few different board books, and any book with the alphabet or numbers. I picked up Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom for her in Target a few days ago, and I was REALLY suprised when she opened it and said "Ah Bee Seeeees!" Don't think she knows the letters individually yet, but she recognizes them! We've also realized we can get a little extra sleep if we stack some her favorites at the opposite end of the crib from where she's sleeping. When she wakes up, she looks through them quietly before calling for us.

We've also started checking out books on tape at the library. We've been listening to The Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh and Kipling's Just-So Stories. She takes on a very serious expression when these are playing in the car, and will sometimes mimic the words. (So when Christopher Robin pulls Pooh down the stairs - "thump, thump" Rose goes "Ump! Ump!"). It's nice for me too - I think we'll just keep listening through classics!

Words
A ton of words! I don't even think I can recall them all. But she's starting to put two words together now - "Byebye Mommy," "Milk pleash", "Lamby gaga" (lamby bath), and so on. She also likes learning people's name, especially her buddies at church. "Wooth, Si, Ya-Ya, Nay and JuJu," translate to Ruth, Silas, Josiah, Nate and Juliet. It's really cute!

All I can think of for now. I will post new pictures soon!