Ana counts... 1,2,3,4,6

Ana turns two in 4 days on Wednesday the 28th. I thought I'd describe what she is having fun doing at this developmental stage. This may seem kinda' boring to some of you--but this is my first 2 year old so I love everything new she does daily! She is absolutely addicted to books. She will get out each book from her "book box" one at a time and put them in a huge pile on the couch. Then she will read each one of them, making a pile on the opposite side of her when finished, and then she puts each one of them away, one at a time back into her box. She loves Mommy to read them to her, but she will also stay busy for at least an hour reading to herself. She can focus and stay on task so extremely well right now.

She loves to repetitively watch a few fun kid's videos that we have. Her favorites include "Dance with theTeletubbies", "Blue's Treasure Hunt", and "Elmo's Pottytime". She has memorized the songs from each of these movies, and copies their dancing which is the cutest thing ever. I especially like to watch her do the "tap dance" from Teletubbies, and the muppets dances from Elmo's video. Since the muppets are like extreme bobble heads, it always looks like she is crazily headbanging as she copies them. It is hilarious.

She knows most of her colors except orange and brown--I attribute this to me not particularly liking orange, and having nothing orange around our home. I think I forget to talk about brown, because it's just not that exciting. She likes to name animals and the sounds they make. Her favorite is the sheep. Everytime she says "baaaaaaah.." she thinks it is the funniest thing.

She started potty training a little while ago. Still wearing diapers, but when she feels like it, she will happily sit on the potty because she likes to play with the toilet paper. She loves to sing. She knows (meaning she will sing the tune very recognizeably, and try her best at most of the words)over 20 kid's songs including primary songs, nursery songs, and christmas carols. She still listens to Josh Groban's Christmas CD at night (which has been a more than one year nightly tradition now--thank you Adro!) She likes to sing along to the "Little Drummer Boy" and I will try to record her doing that some night because she is really good about staying with the tune and doing the "rum, pa, pum, pum". I sometimes wonder how people like Mariah, or Whitney sang when they were one. Her voice is definitely better than mine already!

Ana is finally starting to grow--just a bit. She is in the 2nd percentile for her height, which means that even Adro's kids will most likely be taller than her. (Just messing with ya' A&C.) She has thinned out a lot, and she is still in the running for becoming Rapunzel at age 15. With those little round pebble teeth, and a grin that spans her whole face, she is definitely such a cutie!

She calls Mya, "Bah" which is NOT her best attempt to say the name Mya, because in prayers sometimes Ana will say something really close to "Mya". My favorite thing that she says right now is "I had bun." and "Daddy bunny! Daddy bunny!" when she is trying to say "fun" and "funny". I think it's really smart that she knows what these words mean, and that she regularly uses them correctly. She loves both the rain and snow, and loves to look up and have them fall on her face. She is never in a hurry to escape them, and then says, "I got all wet!" afterwards.

Okay, finally...she likes to count. She counts everything she sees from the birds on the parking lot, to the peas on her plate. No matter how many times we count to five, when she counts alone she still says 1,2,3,4,6. I was hoping to get to 10 by her b-day but that may be a long shot because right now she is only interested in repeating the same numbers. She will count "1,2,3,4,6,2,3,4,6,2,3,4,6...etc". Mya always smiles when she hears Ana counting because she thinks it's so neat. Mya is now counting to 20 (if she is in a good mood)--including eleventeen, twelveteen, and threeteen :). So--here is Ana counting and I will try to post more videos of the girls soon.