Jayla is now 2 years old...

Okay, I seriously can't believe it's been like 5 months since I've posted an update here. That's so sad. So much is changing everyday. We have quite the bright little girl on our hands...



Everything is amazing. We are so lucky to have Jayla in our lives. Of the many, many things she's doing and saying these days, here are some of my favorites...

• when I lay down on the floor, she'll come and straddle me and hop up and down and say 'jump on mommy' and then lean in for a kiss every once and a while...
• if something is in her way (inanimate objects included) she'll say 'ee-me rock' or 'ee-me book' - which is her word for excuse me...
• everything now belongs to her...she uses 'my' in front of everything - my daddy, my mommy, my bowl, my nilk (=milk), my ball, my nana, my doora (=dora)...
• she's saying please - with only minimal prompting.....
• she calls yogurt 'gi-doke' - I don't know where she got that word...
• she calls movie (like to watch dora or elmo) 'booey' I guess that one makes sense.
• she has the best facial expressions (I like the exited and suprised ones the best)....
• for a while she had been saying 'mmm-hmmm-a' to show agreement - instead of saying yes, or yep, or yeah....and then recently she started saying 'la' for yeah...
• oh and there's this episode of dora that she's watched a few times that has a part where dora has to say the 'magic word' to open the gate to let the prince out...the magic word is 'abre' (open, in spanish??) and if I say to Jayla - what's the magic word that Dora has to say to let the prince out, she wispers 'abre'....it's so cute.

Now for her 'abilities' in terms of leaning etc.

• she knows lots of colours (red, yellow, green, purple, white, orange, black, pink, blue) - can recognize, point to and say when pointed to these colours....
• she recognizes shapes - if I say the shape (square, diamond, heart, moon, circle, triangle) she can point to them....
• she can mimic most of the letters of the alphabet (after we say them)...
• she's not interested in numbers, at all
• and she has far too many words (in terms of vocab) for me to list...

Jayla still loves Nana the most...and if Papa doesn't come with Nana on her visits, Jayla asks where's Papa....She's a good sleeper (7:30pm-7:00am) and for the most part she goes to bed really well. And still napping pretty consistently for 1.5-2 hours in the afternoon. Eating, well, she's pretty picky and sometimes I think that has a lot to do with us. We're too accomodating. She likes soup and I can sneak veggies into it (without hiding them too much) and she eats it all up. She'll eat macaroni (with veggies), grilled cheese and zoodles (I know, bad right)....but again, that way, I know she'll be getting in her veggies...She's good with many fruits and carbs - of course. Loves cereal, honey-toast (as she refers to it)...and cookies - although she's good with any kind (so we find the low-sugar options)...And yogurt & freezies are among the favorites....

This isn't exactly the update I wanted to provide, but now that we know where she is...I can try (I know, I say this every time) to keep this updated more regularly...

Here are couple pictures: