Brooklyn 20 months

Love my sweetie!

So grown up.

I have a toddler!!!!! I love Brooklyn's personality and it just shines through more and more every day.  There are seriously some days that overnight she just seems older and more able to express herself.  Some tidbits of information about Brooklyn at 20 months:
- She sleeps with her plush Elmo and Cookie monster at night and her Sesame Street blanket and her elephant binky.
- She sleeps from 8pm-8am but usually will just sit in her crib and talk and play til 8:30pm.
- Wears size 3 diapers
- Wears size 5 shoe
- Wears 18 month clothes but is starting to fit in some 2T clothes as well.
- Loves bubbles and asks for them every day.  She likes us to blow them and then I give her a small empty bottle and blower so she can pretend to blow too.

- Loves play-dough.

Making Play-Dough "pastee".

- Plays with her teeter totter everyday and sings "teeter-totter" as she does it.

She can go in the middle and "totter" on her own but she usually wants one of us to totter with her.

- Likes to do ring-a-round the rosies.
- Loves music and dancing.  We just enrolled her in a class called "Boogey Babies" that is a musical movement class and she has had a blast.

Playing her maracas while wearing her mama's "farf".

- The other day we were walking outside and someone we passed said to me "Your baby is cute!".  Brooklyn then looked at me and said "Mama cute!".
- We have these bingo stampers that I was teaching her how to use by saying "poke a dot" every time we stamped down to make a dot.  So now she really likes "polka dots"  and how she says it is just too adorable.
- Can count to three.
- Loves watching Sesame Street.  The characters she can name and gets excited about are Elmo, "Monster", Abby, and Ernie.  (I personally think Murray is hilarious).
- Has started nursery and has stayed the full two hours without Thomas or I.
-For a while when I would ask her to do something she would say "Oh sure!" and then run and go do it.  Cracked me up.
- When you get a camera or phone out to take a picture of her she immediately says "I see?" and will run over to look at the picture or video (a lot of times before you have even taken one!).
- Will mimic Thomas when he is watching football and yell "Go! Go! Go!" and "Yay!!".
- When I go into her room in the morning she immediately starts labeling things in her crib/room or body parts.
- Eggs are probably the one food we can count on her consistently eating. She is the pickiest eater ever! I really struggle finding foods she will eat. But she'll try random things like wasabi peas, plain salsa by the spoonful, and lemons.

Eating salsa by the spoonful.

Wouldn't eat the baked potato with a fork.

Yum!

Trying wasabi peas.

One thing she will always eat is chocolate.  I blame my mom.

 - Still has some stranger danger but does really well in playgroups and with her friends and at nursery.
- When we go to the bathroom she will sit on her little toilet and pretend to go potty too.
- Her best friend is Hallie and she talks about her every day.
- When she starts to get upset and whinying for something the trick is to say "Oh! It sounds like this.." and she usually calms down and tries asking nicely.
-Can rock a full ponytail and pigtails.

Big girl ponytail.

- When we have our computer out she wants hers out too. While Nana was here visiting she would sit at the table with her computer. So after awhile Brooklyn wanted to sit at a table with her computer as well.

Little secretary.

Working at Nana's computer.