22 months

Wow, how time flies! Lydia turned 22 months on March 3rd ... She has really changed in just a month, though some things are the same.

She still ADORES her sissy ... and likes to do what she is doing.

She loves to draw - and to show you her work as it progresses (from a dot, to two dots, to three dots, to three dots and a line, to three dots, a line, and some squiggles ... "Dada! Dada!" while holding the paper overhead and smiling.)

She still loves babies, and the obsession has become changing a poopie diaper every 5 seconds. She can even lift the legs properly. Strange.

She still loves reading books and is starting to repeat things and help finish sentences. She knows how to finish animal sounds and lots more.

Baby!!!!

She loves to eat - and to do so every 30 minutes or so ... seriously, this kid can snack ALL DAY LONG! She loves fruit and lots of veggies, and she will eat 2-3 bowls of cereal if we let her.
She likes to wake up in the morning and have a first breakfast then wake her sister and have a second.

Lydia is continuing to add words to her vocabulary and wants SO badly to talk like the rest of us.

She is starting to form sentences (some of which we can understand), and she knows all the members of her extended family (and you can test her on this with pictures; she passes every time)!

She loves to finish the verses to favorite songs and LOVES to request that her favorite song be played again and again and again in the car (by saying no continuously whenever the song changes until you change it back).

She loves to brush her teeth, and she will only let you help if she can hold one of the toothbrushes.

She has started to become defiant. When she is holding something she isn't supposed to or something that she doesn't want to give back to you, she looks at you, grins, and then run-toddles through the room as quickly away as possible (generally around the chair and into the corner where she thinks she can't be reached).

She also has started to scream "No" or "My" in a very mean, short tone when she is asked to do something she doesn't want to -- like this morning when she was told to put something down and ask nicely. It took 10 times of telling her to say "Please, Mommy" before she stopped yelling "No!" and did what she was asked to do. Two-years-old here we come.

She has almost mastered the "jump" and will do so on command, though she doesn't actually leave the ground.

She likes to dance and stand on her head - and generally act goofy.

She likes to scream with Eden Brooks, and they sound very much alike.

We are so blessed to have such wonderful girls!!!