Meghan @ 20 Months

Fine Motor: 

• She has most of her current puzzles mastered. She is getting better at putting jigsaw pieces together. 
• She has mastered all of her foam pegging activities. 
• She loves doing her do-a-dot markers. 
• She enjoys coloring and attempts to stay in the lines on coloring book pages.

Gross Motor:

• She loves dancing - this now involves hips and shoulders! 
• She can get in and out of her learning tower. 

Language: 

• She enjoys reading books to herself and having books read to her by mom and dad. 
• She knows all of her basic 10 colors except grey. 
• She knows her eight basic shapes. 
• She knows her numbers 0-10. She can count to ten with some help.
• She knows the names of several alphabet letters. 
• She has started calling Cole "Daddy" and sometimes refers to me as "Mommy."
• She has started saying "Love You." In response to being told "I love you."
• She has started using the phrases "Oh man!" and "Oh my!" - it's too cute!

Eating:

•  Eating has continued to be wonderful! We are so proud of her! 
• She is generally willing to try new foods. 
• She has started eating fresh "wet" fruits! She loves grapes and apple slices.  

Sleeping:

• She has been a very good sleeper this month. 
• We get her up at 7:00 in the morning and put her to bed around 6:30 pm. 
• She likes her afternoon nap - when you ask her if she's ready for nap, she smiles, sweetly starts cooing "nap", and starts climbing the stairs. 

Other Updates:

• She is very much into stranger anxiety. She screams when I drop her off in the nursery for Bible study, but fairly quickly settles in with a baby doll to cuddle. At the doctor's office for my prenatal appointment, she screamed anytime a doctor or nurse was in the room and clung to me - even though she was never touched she was petrified! 
• She is loving art time - having a magna-doodle makes it so she can do art whenever she wants without a mess :) 
• She has been enjoying playing with her "choo-choos" and has learned how to put some of the pieces together. 
• She is petrified of vehicles going down our street or flying over the house. She runs to Mom or Dad whimpering. We talk about how it's outside and it's okay. She will now say that the vehicle is "outside" and she'll say "bye-bye" to the vehicle. 
• Dress up continues to be a very favorite daily activity. 
• When she wants to do something she will say the name of the activity while nodding "yes" to help you know what answer she wants. She will say "please" in her cutest, most pathetic little way while smiling ear to ear if you first tell her "no." - Oh this girl!