We’ve got a talker! Avery continues to chat away in her own (sometimes-difficult-to-understand) language, but she also says plenty of real words and phrases now. Shortly after our last update she said for the first time, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What happened?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something we now hear a lot of. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll also say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153O-kay?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when she thinks someone is hurt or upset, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Where go?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when she can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find something. Other things we hear a lot of: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hot?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sit down!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Kay!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Just two days ago, she started a new game: Repeatedly closing the door to Zoe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s room after saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bye, kay??\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to the people inside. ) And she often points to people’s shoes and coats and says who they belong to (“Daddy’s shoes!”).<\/p>\n
She is better at asking for things \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Want milk\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Want book\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are frequent demands (the latter always at bedtime) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and when I put her to bed one night last week she told me (for the first time) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Want to play.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She often asks to be held, and her \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Up, please\u00e2\u20ac\u009d comes out sounding like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Uppie.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n
She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s getting good at identifying objects in her favorite books (she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s especially fond of pointing out a baby\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s teeth) and she made me laugh recently by calling a monkey \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mommy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Um \u00e2\u20ac\u201c is she trying to tell me something?) She has some of her colors down; she has known yellow for awhile and just this morning asked for the blue balloon. In terms of identifying other things, she recently started \u00e2\u20ac\u201c proudly \u00e2\u20ac\u201c saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Talia\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in reference to one of her little friends<\/a>. And we recently discovered that she calls herself \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Baby\u00e2\u20ac\u009d instead of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Avery.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n She has a playful and (mostly) happy personality, though she can be naughty. (She loves playfully slapping faces, as example, and she laughs as we remind her to be gentle.) She could spend hours (and has!) playing with toy kitchens, food and dishes; she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always making \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tea\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and handing us<\/a> little cups and spoons. (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Here, mama.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) She still sings a lot: Happy Birthday and Baa, Baa Black Sheep are current favorites, and she has a little song (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bye, bye, caca\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) for whenever I change her diaper. <\/p>\n She still has her diva-like moments, of course, and she has a high-pitch squeal for use when she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s upset. She is still shy around new people, and she often freezes when scared or upset. She can also be very sensitive: Uncle Dan recently told her \u00e2\u20ac\u201c very nicely \u00e2\u20ac\u201c not to do something, and Avery immediately stopped what she was doing and just stood there. For almost five minutes.<\/p>\n She has shown an early interest in cleanliness and hygiene: She loves brushing her teeth and showing people the results, and if something spills or she sees something on the floor, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll point and say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh, oh, oh!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d until we clean it up. <\/p>\n Playing with and mimicking her sister continue to be among her favorite things. She always greets Zoe with an enthusiastic \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sis-ser!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and whenever I pick her up first in the afternoons, she asks where Zoe is. She doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always get along perfectly with her, of course \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and if Zoe mistreats her (usually by squeezing her face), she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll come up to me or Q, complaining, pointing to Zoe and reenacting the crime. I can also report that she and Zoe had their first real, backseat fight (i.e. squealing match) a few weeks ago; they were fighting over a bag.<\/p>\n Other things: Her (curly) hair<\/a> continues to grow, and her eyes remain a grayish blue. She recently started sleeping with and taking on car rides her beloved baby<\/a>, and just in the last week or so she has adopted a polka-dot blanket of Zoe’s as one of her favorite things. <\/p>\n And a closing thought: I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe my \u00e2\u20ac\u0153baby\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is almost two!!<\/p>\n -M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’ve got a talker! Avery continues to chat away in her own (sometimes-difficult-to-understand) language, but she also says plenty of real words and phrases now. Shortly after our last update she said for the first time, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What happened?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something we now hear a lot of. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll also say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153O-kay?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when she thinks someone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-58-two-kids-may-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8597"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8636,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597\/revisions\/8636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}