Well here we are, back in January again. Has a year really gone by that fast?
Last year at this time, I was miserably pregnant, still working full time, but about to cut my hours down to 32 hours per week. JoElle was just about to have her 3rd birthday party. We had it at the Little Gym and had a blast! She was still attending classes at the Little Gym, but was started to cry more and more when it was time to go in, she didn't want to leave me in the lobby and go in by herself since she had just moved up into the independent class.
So this year, 2009, I have two little girls, one who is almost 4 and one who is almost 1 year old! What? Alexa is almost 1 already? Is that even possible???????
Yikes! JoElle has learned so much with me at home over this past year, such things as:
How to write her name, how to write most of the letters of the alphabet, she can id all the letters and most of the sounds, she reads quite a few words, has several Scripture verses memorized, knows many Bible stories, has many many songs in her heart from FBCE Kim Noblitt CD's like "You Saved Me" songs, and so much more!
Alexa has learned to clap, she can read her first word "CLAP!" when she sees the word, she starts clapping, even before the word is spoken out loud!!! I am very proud of her.
She can sign several words- milk, all done, bye bye/hi
She can say: Dada, Mama, bye bye, hi, all done, night night, oh yeah she decided to use "baba" for bottle, Nana, Ana
When she hears "arms up" she puts her arms up, when you tell her "clap" she claps; she can point to her mouth when you ask her to
She loves to dance to any song, she loves "Yo Gabba Gabba" and "Superwhy!", she tries to do the spider on "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and does the hand motion for "washed the spider out!", loves the song "5 Little Monkeys Swinging from a tree"..when you get to the part "and snapped that monkey right out of that tree" she claps real hard to snap him out of the tree!!
Likes to do patty cake, can do "roll 'em up" really well by herself.
She loves pointing right now- to people, to objects, to babies, to her sister, to our eyes, mouth, nose, teeth.... she still bites me a lot, esp when teething, her molars are still killing her, the bottom left molar cut in yesterday, she is really fussy
Alexa tried to say "baby" when we looked at a baby book, she said real loudly "BAY!" She likes to hug baby dolls and softly say "dada" for "baby"
She still loves to giggle at everything, esp Daddy and JoElle; loves to chase and play hide and seek!
The other day, on New Year's Day, Alexa was walking all over the living room without holding on! She took 10 or more steps at at a time, even would turn and walk other directions without falling down! She has grown so much over the past year!
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