Brooklyn at 2 years, 5 months

Brooklyn is getting to be a big girl! She is growing so tall and is still a little string bean. She is talking up a storm now and can repeat most words, but when she tries to say multiple words she kind of rushes through it so it is hard to understand sometimes. Speech therapy has been great for her though. These are a few of her new words:


*"mummies"- money. She is obsessed with money; especially coins. Ninety percent of the time she has money in her hand. I didn't have a problem with it because she never put it in her mouth. But then came the day when Jason was watching her and while changing her diaper she swallowed a penny. It was scary; she chocked and cried for a while but she was ok. I called the doctor and they said to wait it out and sure enough, two days later....NOT fun. 


*Meant- mint. You may or may not remember that from a young age, this strange child loved altoids. Well, she still does and any kind of mint for that matter. She will raid my purse for "meants".


*"but"- button


*"amals"- animals. She knows all the main animal sounds now and can say the animals names as well. 


*"Where ___" with hand gesture. Where daddy?, where mommy?, where doll?, etc. 


*"Abba daba" - abracadabra. She will say this while swinging a wand around. 


*"duck"- stuck and yuck. She loves to pretend her arm is stuck and she will say "duck! Oh no!" and then I will say "oh no" and grunt and pretend to pull really hard but can only get it after several tries, and when I pull it out she will laugh and laugh. She would play this all day if she could. She will also say "foo, dat cose" (phew, that was close).


"Fowah"- flower


"bu fi" butterfly


*Ever the sweet tooth, her other favorite food is cheese. I wouldn't be surprised if she turned into a giant cheese stick;) 

*She still loves playing with dolls. She likes to rock them, feed them and just be a mommy. One day I found her with her doll, changing pad, wipes and a diaper. She was getting ready to change the baby's diaper! 

*Brooklyn likes all kinds of rides, but this is still her favorite. 

*Brooklyn cracks me up with her pretend play. She has such a vivid imagination. I love that she can play by herself too. I found her "riding" this little horse with a cowgirl hat on saying "hee haw!" (yee haw)

*One of her favorite toys is her baby doll stroller. She also likes her little shopping cart. She likes to play in her kitchen and make food for us to eat. She will bring us plates of play food and say "rebby" (ready) and then have us eat it. 

*Brooklyn always has at least one purse or backpack full of random items on her person. Whenever she puts on a backpack she has me sing the Dora backpack song and she sings along with me. 

*When we are in the car, Brooklyn seems to think she is in charge of the radio. If a song comes on that she does not like she will say "no!no!no!" and if I pass a song she likes she will freak out until I go back to that song. Seriously!

*Brooklyn is going through a terrible separation anxiety phase right now and she wants me to be with her all the time. The next room is too far and she has to not only know where I am at all times, but be where I am all the time.  

*One rainy day we made pink lemonade cookies. Brooklyn really liked frosting them. She is very independent and she also insists on helping me with different cooking/cleaning things so she enjoyed being able to make the cookies with Laneah and I. 

......and eating them of course;)

Brooklyn is a sweetie. She loves people and attention. She can be stubborn but she sure gives amazing hugs and kisses!