The spark: when I was getting her dressed for church, putting on her shirt, she pulled her arms in close, and then once the shirt was over her head, she shot her little arms up, searching for the sleeve holes - first her left arm and then her right. She did this exactly as I would expect an adult to do it.
She also responded to the request for a kiss for the first time yesterday. A goofy, open mouthed, wonderful, heart-melting kiss of innocent purity.
She also folds her arms and stays quiet during prayers now. Heidi and I have been working on that skill for only a couple weeks, playing a quick game after prayers to reinforce the concept. We all fold our arms, say "prayer", then suddenly throw our arms apart and excitedly say "Amen!" repeated several times. So now if you ever hear Evette yell something at the end of a prayer while everyone else is saying "amen", you know why. She gets excited.
She also enjoys being chased, laughs hilariously when someone makes a ridiculous face, helps slip her arms in and out of her car seat restraints, crawls to her crib when she's tired, throws bananas against the wall when she's done, shares her graham crackers when asked to, spins in place while sitting on the floor, sings along with mom and me, grunts in response to questions, and loves it when I play puppet master to bring her doll Juanita to life.
She's a real gem. I've even shot a couple videos to prove it:
Chatting away, making a mess with bananas
Playing the goofy faces game with Mom.
I couldn't be happier.
Evette made my cheeks hurt. :)
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome! May she keep on learning and growing! (Wish I could see the videos...)
ReplyDeleteThat second video was HILARIOUS.
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