My sweet Aberdoodle,
You are full of spirit and spunk and can charm anyone! You love to make people laugh and know just how to wrap them around your pinkie finger. Your facial expressions are so expressive...sometimes you furl your brow and play hard-to-get, sometimes you flash that gorgeous 12-teeth smile, and other times you have Monkey hanging out of your mouth as a comfort measure if you are skeptical of your environment. Your strawberry blonde hair, chubby cheeks, and petite frame makes you look like a little doll!
Your intellect has blossomed in the past month. You follow directions really well, unless it is something you don't want to do, then you do what you want while watching for my reaction. You are great about "helping" Mama, taking things from room to room, loading clothes in the laundry basket, or picking up toys. You love to go wake George up from naps, running into the nursery and standing at his crib, screeching for him to awaken. You know where your shoes and socks and coat go on your body and love to wear them! You understand so much of what I say to you and you try to repeat some of the words. You are definitely chatty like your Mama and fluctuate your tone in your "storytelling". Your words are Mama, Dada, Bubba, Mo-mo (Monkey), mama milk, Gee-gee (Georgie), bye bye, Boo-Boo (Boomer), cat, all-done, mo (more), up (when she wants to be held), juuce, nigh-nigh, and our favorites, Abu and Abiga (her versions of her name).
Though you only weigh 20 lbs, most of the time you eat really well. You would prefer to drink soymilk all day long but you are adventurous in trying new foods. Tonight, you tried butternut squash soup and ate apple off the core. Yesterday you loved your dinner of corn, peas, baked beans, hummus on crackers, and part of a chocolate chip cookie. You have recently started drinking juice out of hard mouthpiece sippy cup (which you think is great fun!) and ice water out of regular straws in cups. Anything I am eating, you want to try.
You have started running in the past week and tonight you were prancing around in your pjs on your tippy toes....too cute! You love to read/eat books and you love to sit in anything Abigail-sized! You love rocking horses too. You also like to sit in Mama's lap when I'm looking on the internet. You also give the best hugs. You don't sleep as well as your Bubba, but I guess you get enough rest for your energetic little self! You always awaken before G and I love it when you wake up talking or singing.
You certainly have a fiery temper and can turn the screaming off and on in a heartbeat. You can get really mad if you don't get what you want, and you have the "slippery baby body" (where you arch your back and put your arms overhead) down pat. You do not like diaper changes--you are sooo wiggly--and you don't like sleeping on long car drives, which has made our recent road trips challenging.
...But you have been "spirited" since the day you were born, and I have grown to love that aspect of you. You are very attached to your mama and we have such a wonderful bond. I hope and pray that you and I stay as close as Nana and I are...having a strong mother-daughter relationship is priceless and something that I already treasure between us.
all my love, Mama
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