Rebekah 2 1/2 Part 2

I forgot that I've been doing a few things to help with my blog posts.  I've been keeping a casual "journal" of funny things that happen in our day-to-day life.  I also apparently wrote down a bunch of stuff right around the time she turned 2 1/2 because I knew I would forget what she was like at that exact moment in time.  Apparently I also forgot I had done this until after I did my last post!

Here are the journal posts between her 2nd birthday and 2 1/2:

10/15/2012

• First time rebekah climbed on our bed by herself. I walked in the room and she was just sitting in the middle of the bed!!
• Went to the arboretum. "I had fun music class mom"

10/21/2012

• I think Rebekah has outgrown the phase where she won't kiss me and says "no misses!" She now says "kisses mama happy!"
• She's getting really good with her colors. Seems to be naming them correctly most of the time.
• I looked out the window one day last week and Adam was throwing a ball to her. She caught it and got so excited!

10/24

• rebekah used a big girl cup at dinner tonight!

12/19

• We went to see Santa today and she wanted to tell him that she wants fingernail polish (or fingernails as she says). When I picked her up from Santa's lap she said "fingernails?" Like where is my fingernail polish? My heart just broke!! I explained to her that Santa would come on Christmas and leave fingernail polish for her and she seemed ok with waiting. :)

 
 And my notes from when she turned 2 1/2:

• Some of her favorite things: puzzles, stickers, coloring (she's actually getting pretty good at this!).  Puzzles, puzzles, and more puzzles.

• She loves to watch Sesame Street and Super Why.  It was Sid the Science Kid for awhile, but we seem to be on break from that.  We don't watch a lot of TV, but she often asks "watch tv while momma feeding Jacob?"
• We love playing games.  Zingo and the "Ice game" are her favorites.  We picked up a new one last week (5 Monkeys on the Bed), but haven't played it yet.
• She loves to give Good Morning and Good Night Hugs and Kisses, especially to her baby brother.
• We gave up the paci awhile back.  She was only using it for bedtime and it wasn't really a hard transition.  We talked about it a few days leading up to it, then it was just gone.  She asks for it sometimes then just starts laughing!
• I read this on another blog and laughed because Rebekah is exactly the same way.  "She remembers really specific details of various events but you always references them as happening 'last night.'" (In fact, we brought out the Easter basket the other day and she remembered it was for picking up Easter eggs.  She also recently told me specifically about eating ice pops in her hippo chair outside.  That was last summer sometime.
• Other favorite timing words "maybe later," "morrow," "after lunch/breakfast/dinner" (never the correct meal time)
• She loves her school.  She always talks about "My Park Cities School" and thought it was the greatest thing when Jacob started going to "My Park Cities School."
• She also started gymnastics classes recently and they are a big hit!  I sit and watch her through the window.  I love seeing her follow directions so well and listen to the teacher.  She is such a good girl in this class and I'm so proud of her.  And I am glad she loves it!
• She loves "peanutbutterjellysandwiches" and asks for one for every meal.

Even as I read these I'm sad because so many things have changed in just a couple of short months!  Hope you enjoyed the extra update!