On Saturday Sabine turned 17 months old. We have been having so much fun with her, recently. She's growing so fast, and learning so much; it's just been a pleasure to watch. She's doing more independent play, she is getting more curious about how things work, and she's bigger and stronger so she's getting into/onto more things, but she's also able to help out more. She helps sweep, she helps water the flowers, she helps pick up things that have fallen on the floor and put them in the trash, she helps carry laundry, and she helps unload the dishwasher. She also helps yell at the cats anytime they do something bad. "NONONO!" and "DOWN DOWN!" are some of her favorite words.
Sabine's vocabulary, in general, is expanding. She's enunciating more, and attempting more words. She isn't stringing words or phrases together quite yet, but we think she's close. She still uses a lot of baby signs (sign language), and we have found that to be really helpful to clarify what she's talking about. She loves to identify colors, she knows blue, green, purple, yellow, red, and orange solidly now. She's a big fan of the bulldozers that are working on the new houses going up in our neighborhood, and we go outside to watch them almost daily. She can also recognize the numbers one and eight, and tries to say "A, B, C" but it comes out more like "AHBAS." We also think she's starting to cut her canine teeth; she's had a few rough nights in the past week or two. She's already got all eight in front, and four molars, so the canines are the only ones left to go.
Sabine also has started singing. It melts my heart every time she attempts it. Her favorite song right now is "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." She can only really pronounce the "Up a..." part, so it usually goes, "Up a gabba gabba!" over and over. Her word for "star" has hence become "upa," and she likes to point out upas in her books all the time. Note, it'll help to turn up your speakers for this video clip, so that you can hear the music playing in the background. She's already got more rhythm than her mommy!
Just out of curiosity... is there any ladybug item for babies that you don't own? :)
ReplyDeleteAh, no. We have everything there ever was. As well as a few duplicates. Need you any ladybug mittens, hair ties, or coffee mugs?
ReplyDeleteI love the video! It turns out S and B have even more in common than they think, as B loves Twinkle, Twinkle too. He taught it to himself -- it plays on his nighttime CD and we didn't even realize he knew it until one day he just "popped it," as Ed, and now B, says. ;)
ReplyDeleteAs for the ABCs, when you're ready for a bit of television and if you can handle Elmo, Elmo's ABCs: Preschool is Cool is a good one -- cute and actually educational.
Great seeing you guys this week!