B: big girl now!

B is getting so big. I feel like in the last 1-2 months she has gone from baby to toddler.

She has so much to say, mostly just single words right now. But occasionally she will throw two together. She has all her exclamations down "wow!" "yay!" "uh oh!" "hey!" "no!" "don't!" "let go!" "ow!" She loves practicing counting to 10, and is quickly learning her colours and ABCs.

She likes to look at books, and I love setting her up in her little "reading nook". She has also started bringing books to bed to look at.

She loves animals, and knows most animal noises.

Her favourite thing is to do is listen to music and sing. She knows all the actions and lots of words to all the baby classics (wheels on the bus, if you're happy and you know it, head shoulders knees and toes...) But she is happy listening to pretty much anything.

Her second favourite thing is having a bath. We can't even say the word, without her stopping whatever she is doing, while attempting to strip, and refusing to do anything else (or let us do anything else) until she gets to have one.

She is a little copycat when it comes to her big sisters. From everything to her obsession with wearing shoes all the time, to her love of dancing, to her attempts doing yoga and failed gymnastics in the living room, or racing up and down the hallway, she loves to do what they do.

She is easily our biggest girl compared to her sisters at this age, and I've started forcing Scarlett out of some clothes so B can wear them. They could easily share a number of 2T shirts, and I am waiting for B to exempt herself from hand-me-downs simply because she will be the same size as her sister. Or maybe Scarlett will be getting hand-me-downs from her! She currently has a boot/toque obsession. (After this photo was taken, she stripped herself down butt naked, then put the boots and toque back on.)

Her favourite foods are pretty much everything, but especially cheese and chocolate. Her appetite is a huge indicator of how she's feeling, and it's pretty obvious if she's not feeling well.

She has 11 teeth, with the last first year "molar" in the works. She has the best toothy grin.

B is generally social and friendly, but if she is feeling shy and we walk into a room with new people, she will just freeze and cover her eyes. She loves nursery, and ran in the first day without ever looking back.

She aware of her surroundings and will point to the oven, or her dinner, or the floor vents and say "hot" then try and blow on them. When she wakes up in the morning, if her sisters are still sleeping she'll say "shh" "shh" when we take her out of the room.

She loves to be outside, and nothing much sets her temper off more than having to come back inside.

She got to fly on her first plane ride to Disneyland with Grandma and Grandpa, and was apparently a near angel! (more about that in my Disneyland post to come....eventually). Grandpa did a lot of B-sitting.

She loves to get into mischief (playing in the toilet, stealing toys or snacks, hiding when it's time to get dressed), and accidentally called 911 from my phone last week.

Can't believe she's going to be 2 in four months!