This a.m. when we were in the kitchen I asked Elizabeth is she wanted to "go upstairs?" She immediately put down the plastic containers she was playing with and ran over to the stair case. Things like that show a different level of development--for example she can point out specific items on a page in a book (banana, dog, horse, etc.) and at this point pretty much knows her entire body, from hands, head, hair, feet, nose, eyes, to belly button, diaper, shoe, etc.* But asking her a question such as "do you want to go upstairs?" is a different level of understanding that she can comprehend. Another example that Linea just reminded me of is "We are going to the park, get your shoes."
These days she can do puzzles with irregular shapes, brushes her teeth, "talks" on the phone, brushes her and our hair, and soon with get a little potty so she can share the experience with us since she is showing an interest.
Of course there are some issues: when she has something you don't want her to have and try to take it away, there is usually crying. Also, she hates it when you wipe her hands and face after a meal. That's the breaks kid!
Other items: She likes to dance with music - usually by circling; we chase each other around the living room; and one of our best used tactics to distract her when mommy leaves in the morning is to play "Grovercise" - where Grover does a bunch of actions that Elizabeth repeats.
* Here is a list of known vocabulary:
- all dah (all done)
- daw (dog)
- nohw (nose)
- nouh (Noe)
- no (no)
- mama
- bada
- bubah (bubble)
- bah (ball)
- more - uses finger to point to item then herself
- hiiiiiiiy (hi)
- high da (hi there)
I'm sure there are a couple missing! Doc says at this stage they usually have 5 words and at 18 months should have 10 words.
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