22 Months

Snowball for mom

Ceilidh is now only 2 months away from her birthday. Two in two! And she has been busy keeping us on our toes and commanding our attention. Since Christmas her favourite phrase has been what's that? Sounds more like wazdat but we parents can decipher her Ceilidh speak. Everything now has to have a name, so of course her vocabulary has also increased leaps and bounds. Except that I am not sure a stranger would understand all that she says. She is also trying to figure out the thank yous and your welcome. Instead of saying thank you she jumps to the your welcome. So inevitably we then reply with thank you.
Conversations go as follow.
C: water please
me: here you go
C: your welcome
me: thank you.
I don't think we are helping her confusion. But kind of hard not to smile and say thank you when she hits you with a your welcome.

Ceilidh is still fascinated by everything we do. She is always trying to mimic us in every sort of way.
She sees me sweeping the floor and she needs to get her broom out to help. We read a book to her she has to read one to her cat.

C made sure her cat had a book to read at bedtime

She sees us shoveling the drive way and there she is with her mini red shovel.
The other day she even wanted to help salt the drive way.

Salting the driveway

And cooking well she was tickled pink to be allowed to mix the pancake batter. That kept her entertained all throughout the pancake making. If only we could do that all the time, however that just would not be possible. Stove top and kids not always a good combination.

Making pancakes

Having fun with her red shovel.

The other big thing she is comprehending is using the potty. Yes I just called it that, and yes I am going there, remember this is for her baby book so one day she will ask and I won't remember so I will point to this blog/book.While we aren't going to start any real training anytime soon (she is still wearing diapers) we wanted to incorporate it into her daily routine so that she could understand its function and just get used to the concept. We started off by placing her on the potty when she woke up in the mornings. It took about a week for her to get comfortable sitting on it, she sits on a kid's seat that fits on a regular toilet. We take it for granted that you have to balance your self on the seat when your feet don't touch the ground. Once she figured out the balance the routine was we would read a couple of stories while sitting on the potty and hopefully she would pee. She now pees more frequently then not so we surmise that she understands the concept but sometimes she just doesn't have to go. After all, she still wears diapers so its not like we are telling her don't pee in your diaper we are just showing her an alternative place to go. Now the routine is also being practiced at bedtime. She doesn't really need the stories anymore as she now either goes right at the beginning or not at all but the stories give us a timeline.