Sentences

Dakota just started speaking in broken sentences in the last week or so. She also uses possessives a lot... "Koda's shoes" "Mamma's shirt" "Oak'ey's blanky" etc.

This morning she dropped one of her foam letters in the bathtub where she couldn't reach it and looked at me and said, "Mamma get U"

Pretty good!

Mascara

I didn't know it, but apparently my little girl has watched me closely put on my makeup... especially my mascara... Because yesterday I found her by the sink with the little bottle brush attachment for the nipples that are shaped like a mascara brush and she had it up to her eye, poking her lid and fluttering her lashes :) Does this kid have to pay attention to EVERYTHING I do?!? I told her it wasn't good to do that and that one was for washing, but inside I was laughing!!

My little Monkey

This girl can climb anything and everything. In the last two weeks I've had to remove from her room: 2 boxes of diapers, her lion cart, the ottoman to the rocking chair, and her bag of crib bedding. Why? Because she uses them as a stool to climb up into Oakley's crib and places in the closet to get into things she shouldn't and to climb over the back of the rocking chair and come down it from the top like a slide!

So, I thought she was out of options until I went in and found she had pulled the dresser drawers out in the fashion of a set of stairs and used it to access the top of the dresser. Thankfully the dresser didn't break or tip over and the only damage caused was a bunch of wipes pulled out of their case and then put back in disarray. We are definitely going to have to anchor the dresser to the wall now, but seriously, what else can I do? I can't move the dresser out of their room....

She also scoots table chairs and a stool around downstairs to get what she wants off of counters, out of the pantry and in other out-of-reach places. This morning I walked into the kitchen to find she'd dragged a chair to the counter, climbed on up to reach the fruit basket which was on a shelf above the counter, and had taken a bite out of one pear, one apple and peeled and half ate a banana.

Such a monkey!!!

Baby Oil

Oh man this kid is going to be the death of me. A couple months ago, I came to get her from her nap and found vaseline smeared all over her room and body. Last night during her bath, I went into her room to get her towel and I hear her yell "bubbles, bubbles". I walk back in to find she has emptied a 1/2 large bottle of baby oil into the bath tub! The water was full of oil bubbles and I can assure you she was nice and soft and smelled like baby when she got out :) Now I have a tub to scrub...

Play

Yesterday I took both kids out to run some errands. Dakota was getting restless as I was putting her into her car seat to go. I explained to her, "First we are going to this store and then we are going to Old Navy and..." She suddenly pipes in and says, "And then PYaaaaY?" with a big smile on her face. It was practically a sentence and I was kind of shocked. I repeated back, "and then play?" and she smiled big and said "YEAH!" How could I resist that? So I got her a bouncy ball at ON for $ .25 and let her play :) I just still can't believe she totally understood what I was saying and knew how to finish the sentence the way she wanted!

Shoes

Dakota learned how to put her own shoes on this week. Granted, they don't always go on perfect or sometimes she needs help. She particularly can't differentiate between left and right.

So every time I turn around lately, she's walking around the house in shoes... different pairs all day long. She is good at matching up the pairs... but more often than not, they are on the wrong feet :) But she doesn't seem to mind as she prances around, proud that she put them on! And it makes me chuckle when I watch her clomp around with them on the wrong feet. :) Oh... and don't even THINK of trying to help her put on shoes now. She can do it herself! Or as she says it, "No, no! Mine!"

Bless You

The other day Oakley was in his bouncer seat and sneezed.... Dakota was walking by and promptly looked his way and said, "bless you!" Doug and I both looked at each other with the look... 'Did she really just say that??' and 'Did YOU teach her that?' NOPE. Neither of us taught her that. I guess she just picked it up!

Bye-Bye!

Over the weekend, we went down to visit family so they could see the baby. After dinner on Sunday, Rachel and Erika were leaving and Dakota was yelling from the living room, "BYE-BYYYYYYE.... aklbnaoidfkandiofpa" Then she came running over to the door and proceeded to yell it some more... She had a dead serious face and kept saying, "Bye-byyyyeee"... followed by some string of words we couldn't understand. But it sounded like the same sounds over and over with the same inflections, so she definitely knew what she was saying, but we had no idea. Doug and I were laughing so hard I was in tears. She must have said the same phrase about 15 times.

She did something similar a week or so ago.. Doug and I went upstairs while she was still down by the TV. She came to the bottom of the stairs and yelled "GUYYYS! jadkjfoapijdfkajgl". No idea what she was saying, but it was super cute and funny!

Some day I'll be able to understand her! ;)