Meghan can now crawl up into her learning tower by herself! Often times when I am working in the kitchen, she will pull it over to where I am and climb up to watch. Pictures coming up will show just how much she is learning while watching Mama cook :)
She now wants her baby's high chair next to her table - since that's where you feed the baby :) She has been enjoying feeding her baby juice!
She has wanted to color a lot in the past week, too. This day she was coloring in her waterworks book and having so much fun.
Like I said, she has been doing so much cooking! This day, she said she was putting "milk" in her "oatmeal" and then proceeded to feed it to her baby. She is getting much more clear in her speech and words are gaining so many more sounds making them so much more clear! She is loving naming the foods in her kitchen (she has a small set of fruits and veggies arriving tomorrow - I think she will be thrilled to work on labeling all of them!).
Baby also needed to eat some cheese.
I have some Melissa and Doug cutting foods and knives from my teaching days - I brought up the apple for her - it's only 2 pieces and she can easily put it back together herself. She has a hard time determining the amount of force she needs to cut it open, but is so proud when she is successful!
When she successfully accomplishes something that she had to work hard at, she will now proclaim "did it!" often times raising her hands or clapping at the same time. I love how she is becoming intrinsically motivated!
She has been loving her cars and vehicles, too. This day she enjoyed driving her tractor (from when Daddy was a boy) all over the house.
On Thursday we went to playgroup in the neighborhood. She was overwhelmed a few times, but overall seemed to enjoy her time. Especially since the family who hosted this time had a small dog that enjoyed sitting near her :)
I had to juice up some cucumber this week. She was incredibly scared of the juicer and ended up rocking and wailing in her tunnel - the safe place she runs to when she is very scared, particularly of noises. Part way through, I stopped and we read our book about noises, talked about what Mama was doing, and she got to try the juice. Her responses decreased after that until eventually, as long as I warned her and she was hidden away in her tunnel there was no more crying. She LOVED cucumber juice! There is green in the corners of her mouth,,
She is getting very good at making "big strokes" while coloring. She takes coloring very seriously and is enjoying the activity so much these days.
She discovered that her kitchen sink had a faucet! She started pretending to wash her hands and then wipe them on her babies faces. We gave her one of the rags that we use to wash her face and she took to washing her baby and the surfaces around her playroom :) It's super cute to watch her learning more and more about how she can play imaginatively!
We played outside some on Saturday. This girl LOVES flowers! And so very much enjoyed "petting" the "fowers" in the gardens (while carrying a dead brussels sprouts leaf!).
She enjoyed picking some tomatoes and ate 2 tomatoes and 2 green beans right from the garden! She LOVES her veggies!!
While Meghan and I worked in the gardens, Daddy was trimming branches off our trees. Meghan loves carrying old, small, dead branches around the yard like wands - she was very excited to haul this big branch around the yard (along with the tomato she picked and would not let me have!).
She worked up a good sweat out there and when we came in, Daddy taught her how to cool off by putting your face above the AC vent. She thought that it was so funny!
Here's the progress on the cross-stitch this week:
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