Growing Girl

Suzy is doing all sorts of funny things these days. She has quite the personality, to say the least. I don’t know where she gets that from?! Her daddy is “Mr. Social”, and I am not the shyest person in town either. She is absolutely hilarious. I know that I am probably a little biased, but I could watch her and laugh at her all day long!

These pictures are from the same day we played outside all day during Spring Break, but they were tooooo funny not to share! 

No, it is not opened! She would have reallllly loved that!! 

Big girl had her flower along for the ride!

Sequence of events- The pictures tell the story!! 

I took her inside to change clothes and grab a quick snack! She was satisfied. 

She loooooooves her KK! Notice the fingernail file that she has hidden under her hiney... She is really hiding it well, isn't she?! 

           -  I can say, “Suzy, are you a bad girl?”. Suzy will shake her head yes and say, “Baaaaaaad”.

·        -  She thinks that all dogs are named: wowwwwa (Lola) or Beeeewwwa (Bella).

·         - All cats have the same name: “CAAAAT”

·         - If she sees a cow on anything (a book, yogurt package, etc.) she will say, “Mooooooo”.

·         Her favorite things are:

o       Shoes- she says shoe and will go get her shoes when I tell her it is time to go

o        Toothbrushes- she loves to sit in the bathroom sink and brush her teeth like a big girl. Laurie always lets her do that while I am getting ready to go somewhere. She also totes around a toothbrush and “brushes her teeth” throughout the day.

o       Snacks- she goes to the cabinet that houses all her “goodies” and grabs whatever she wants. Suzy’s cabinet consists of Nutri-Grain Bars, animal crackers, Ritz cheese bitz, yogurt/applesauce sqeezeables, etc. She thinks she needs something in her hand to eat at all times.

o       Purses and Boxes- she is very big into organizing things right now. All her toys, blocks, books, etc. belong in a basket or a purse. She puts the most random things in the most random places. At least she is somewhat picking up after herself. She will sling that purse up her arm and priss across the house like she is the queen! 

o       Books- she is still a huge fan of books- She will grab a book and sit in anyone’s lap and read for as long as you will read to her. She points, laughs, and nods while you read to her. Let’s hope she gets some good word recognition and vocabulary skills from the many stories we read to her. I think her favorite book right now is, The Wheels on the Bus. She likes it when the mama’s go, “shhhh, shhhh, shhhhh”, the babies go, “waaaahhhh, waaaahhh, waaaaah”, and the people go up and down the most!

Being silly after her bath one night! 

She is doing so much now it is hard for me to even keep up with it myself. I know that her most recent accomplishments are: drinking out of a Capri Sun pouch by herself, blowing kisses, saying PawPaw, saying Thank You, and trying to hardest to jump. She runs full speed and has her head down the whole time. I don’t know what that is all about, but it looks like she is charging at whatever she is running towards.

She wears a size 4 shoe, 18-24 month clothes, and she is very short. We knew she was shorter than average, but when Jill brought Chevy over (he is 9 mos old) and Suzy was only a couple centimeters taller than him our suspicions were confirmed. She also wore her first pair of shorts on Easter. They came well past her knee caps. Maybe she will grow taller as she gets older, but I will tell you… I think she is going to be a little girl! J

KK, Laurie, and I took her on a "junking" excursion one Saturday. We went to Kilgore's in Hernando, which is a junk hunter's dream.... Out of all the mess in that establishment she left there with this Mickey Mouse from who knows where and a Pez dispenser. The man GAVE them to her. Gee, thanks pal, that's just what I wanted.... We had to hurry home to wash Mouse before she got too attached. 

She also had her very first trip to The Dip in Hernando. She got something called a Snow. It was a slush and a milk shake mixed together. She got strawberry banana! She sucked it down! The only thing she didn't like was when a fresh piece of strawberry would clog her straw! She finished probably half of that cup before giving up!