23 months. Less than a month now until Maya is two. In the last few weeks she has moved out of the saying no for everything phase. She will sometimes say no...yes or yes...no. Usually the latter is what she really means. She still talks all the time. She's up to around 14 or so word sentences now. She still has trouble with pronouns. She usually refers to herself as Maya or you. We frequently hear "you need it" when she means I want it. She also says things like "you want me to do it" meaning she wants me to do something. It sometimes gets a little confusing. She's adding new words/phrases. Friday, I was telling her something and she said oh well. She's also picked up though and actually this month to name a few. Friday we were sitting and playing on the kitchen floor. She crawled in my lap and asked for mom milk. I told her something like maybe I needed milk. She said "let me get it out" and started tugging on her shirt. I said, "I don't think you have any Maya milk." She looked at me like I was crazy and said "it's just pretend." Obviously. We bought little red chairs for little table in the kitchen this weekend so now we have somewhere other than the floor to sit. Maya was excited about it. She's been asking for chairs since we pulled the table out of the living room to replace to toilet box. Yes we had a toilet box in our kitchen for weeks. It was just the right height for a table. Plus you could draw right on the box.
One night recently, we were putting on a pair of pjs that we bought when we were at my mom's house. She asked if my mom was going to read to her. Maya insisted on wearing them the night we bought them and that night my mom had read to her. This weekend we were going out to play so we put on her jacket. She asked if we were going to play in the leaves at the farmers market, because she had worn the jacket months ago and we had done that. She also was randomly talking about the mouse we saw in the airport on our way home earlier this month. (If you ever find yourself in need of amusement in an airport, just find a mouse and watch the people scream/scatter.)
Maya loves to help me cook, especially "muftins". Although, she doesn't like it when we use the muffin pan she has claimed for her own. She asked me to put the batter in it but then had a meltdown when I put it in the oven. "You need it. You NEED IT." She's been talking about it for days. "You need it. Mom said no. Maya cried." Note taken. I won't be doing that again.
She is a little ball of energy. She can't walk. She has to hop/skip or run. She loves to climb on her slide, drive her car, and run around the trees in our yard. She loves to go to gym, story time, and bible class. Tonight, she turned our living room into a "park". She took two cushions off of the couch and put them on the floor. She then would climb up, jump off onto the cushion, then jump onto the floor. Apparently there was another kid there and she had to wait her turn. Then she said get off the park boy. Then we had to talk about how that wasn't a very nice thing to say to the imaginary boy. She is actually pretty good for her age with taking turns and sharing with other kids. I think she just hasn't had to fight for her stuff being the only kid. She did try to gently push another kid out of the way of "her" toys this weekend when we were shopping. I say gentle because I've seen some of the kids at gym really shove each other out of the way.
One Tuesday, we started working a little harder on potty training. Maya wore panties all day and only had 3 accidents. She even went potty at the library. The next day was only a single accident and she went potty at church. Thursday she had a bit of tummy troubles so she wore diapers part of the day. She didn't have any accidents on Friday. The weekend was hard because we were out quite a bit. We will see how it goes this week.
She still loves to sing. She often walks around singing and saying nursery rhymes. Sometimes she will request a song by a random line or phrase in it. Once she asked me to sing one day. That is Mary had a little lamb. Tonight she told us she wanted to sing ding dong. Derek and I were trying to figure out what song she meant. She was like you know farmers dog. Ding dong, bingo, close enough.
