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Humuhumu is fluent in cat. When Telstar comes in early in the morning, they sing to one another through her closed door. If shown a picture of a cat, she says, "Aoww" or "Meow", and it's the first animal she identifies on one of the tablet games.
She prefers dresses and tights to trousers and shirts. If she is put in an outfit that she doesn't like, she will march over to her dresser and select the items she wishes to wear. I had no idea that children this small could be so particular about their clothes. She's been doing that for a couple of months now.
We're getting some two-word sentences now. These include:
She gives kisses very readily, particularly to other babies. She's a very extroverted baby generally, smiling at everyone and trying to charm new people as soon as they notice her.
While my parents were here, she started to call her grandpa "Papa". She enjoyed teasing him by pretending to give him bits of food and then stuffing them in her own mouth. He encouraged this by pretending to cry in an amusingly overblown fashion.
The day after they left, she sat at the dining table with her cache of breakfast raisins, looking puzzled. She picked one up, held it out toward his now-empty chair and said, "Papa?"
[Little astronaut and "Papa"]
She prefers dresses and tights to trousers and shirts. If she is put in an outfit that she doesn't like, she will march over to her dresser and select the items she wishes to wear. I had no idea that children this small could be so particular about their clothes. She's been doing that for a couple of months now.
We're getting some two-word sentences now. These include:
- "Brush tee" (accompanied by miming gesture)
- "Sit dow" (very imperiously said to herself, her parents and her teddy bears)
- "Mama/Dada shoe" (when she wants to go outside, usually accompanied by the delivery of shoes to the person's feet)
She gives kisses very readily, particularly to other babies. She's a very extroverted baby generally, smiling at everyone and trying to charm new people as soon as they notice her.
While my parents were here, she started to call her grandpa "Papa". She enjoyed teasing him by pretending to give him bits of food and then stuffing them in her own mouth. He encouraged this by pretending to cry in an amusingly overblown fashion.
The day after they left, she sat at the dining table with her cache of breakfast raisins, looking puzzled. She picked one up, held it out toward his now-empty chair and said, "Papa?"
[Little astronaut and "Papa"]
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(I shared this with my mum (who isn't on the net at all) - hope you don't mind. She thinks that you have an amazing and gorgeous little girl.)
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Also: That papa story slays me. That's beautiful.
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Humuhumu tries to strip off whenever presented with a container of water that looks even remotely as if she might be able to climb into it. She loves baths, but if a small bucket of freezing water is the only option, she will go for it.
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Nico is definitely expressing preferences about what to wear and has been for ... a few months ?. I think I was letting Charles choose not only what to wear but what to buy before he was three.
(Nico has also learned how to take off most of his clothes, and his nappy too, and likes nothing better than to run around naked. I am not so happy about this. The one thing he can't take off is onesies poppered between his legs, so he's been wearing those A LOT lately. And I can't put him in the loose ones because he wriggles out of them without undoing them.)
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I'm afraid Humuhumu is going to have to suffer her cousin's hand-me-downs for a number of years before she gets to choose what to buy. Said cousin (Little Niece) had so many clothes that we've needed to purchase very little!
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That's so interesting...as I didn't start realizing that I was distinctly not wearing anything "in" until I was 12 or so.... And didn't even really care until I was almost 20. And now I care a lot about what I wear, lol.
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(is it bad that I'm jealous of a toddler for having a NASA outfit?)
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My little niece loves cats too! She'll meow at anything cat-shaped and if a cat is removed—or removes itself, if sentient—from her sight she'll say "Where meow?" She also meowed at the meerkats on her first ever zoo trip, and at a lion. It was PRECIOUS.
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Meowing at a lion. *clutches chest*
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That was such a great zoo trip. I want to write a happy memory in her birthday card every year and I think that might be this year's.
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