Little Chatterbox

It seems that Mia mimics everything we do now. It's amazing how fast she learns things. She likes to dance. It doesn't matter if it's the radio, a commercial on tv, whatever. She stops whatever she's doing and starts dancing. It's like "Stop!...Hammer time..." That's what it makes me think of. I think Mia would look better in parachute pants than MC Hammer, anyway. No grown man should have ever done that.

Mia has really gotten into gesturing with her hands. She points at lots of things. Whenever Xander makes her mad, she shakes her finger at him and says, "No! No!". Wesley also taught her to "raise the roof". That's a good one. She tries to watch me and repeat the motions for Itsy, Bitsy Spider. I love that when we praise her for doing something good, you can tell she is so proud of herself. We have started slowly teaching her body parts. So far, she can point to her nose, belly, ear, eye, and tongue. She likes to point these out on us as well. She insists on raising her shirt before pointing at her belly. I guess she thinks we won't see it otherwise.

Her vocabulary has expanded quite a bit since the last word list I posted. She can now say eye, nose (sounds like "no"), ear, diaper ("diapuh"), mommy (but usually mama), daddy, no-no, night-night, school ("coo"), eat, more ("mo"), good girl ("goo grrr"), and hi. For some reason, "hi" is only said if she has a phone (or remote control or whatever) held up to her ear. She doesn't use it as a greeting yet.

She took a bunch of books into her closet to read.
Mia and Daddy reading books.