ABC's

I feel that in the very near future Toni will be talking. I mean she's talking now but mostly in blabber. But more and more that blabber starts to make sense with her pointing and tone of voice and the few words she does know. But his last week her speech is even better and understanding is outrageous! So she knows were her body parts are. Head, ears, eyes, nose, feet, etc. You can ask her where a body part is and she will point to it (assuming she's in the mood to entertain). But today, voluntarily, she walks up to me with her hands on her head and goes, "head." Of course it sounded a bit more like "ed" but still.

Her ABC's are better too. She doesn't say the ABC's from start to end but if you sing it with her she can hit some of the letters and she's pretty goob a-d. The best is the end when you sing "next time won't you sing with me" she says "me" and points to herself with such conviction. I love it!

I just can't get over how fast she's developing. And she's only 18 months! I think she's recently gained and inch too because her jeans fit her fine last week but yesterday she looked like she was flooding in them! Maybe not and inch but a significant amount. I'm so excited and sad at the same time. Excited my baby is growing and developing well. But sad it's all flying by so quickly!

Even her sleep routine doesn't even need to be as long anymore. So I quickly learned when she was just a couple months that routine means EVERYTHING. I honestly believe that had I not got her into a routine, life might be hard in that aspect. Anyway, we have a bedtime routine that we stick to and as she gets a little older it changes a little bit here and there. So for a couple months now the routine is after dinner she plays a little and at round 8 she has a bath and we go to bed. We watch a few Pajanimals songs (they are the best for night time!) and then shortly after she will fall sleep... between 8:30-9:00p. Well this past week once we get into bed and get ready to watch her Pajanimals, she'll instead already start to put herself to sleep. Sometimes she'll watch the first song or two, but the last song is always the lullaby song and she hasn't been watching that one. She already proceeds to go to sleep and to me that is just a sign of her growing up. Like she doesn't need to see them now.

By the way, watching the Pajanimals on On Demand TV is GREAT! They sometimes have tips for parents on how to help your kids to sleep and tactics too. And it's not just by any people. They are actual sleep experts with clients. So they've done the research. it's great! So in between songs, there will be a maybe5-7 min clip for parents... I love it! I'm learning a lot. I recommend you check it out of you are a parent... and have on demand on video on demand!