Identifying Colors

In the bathroom we have a frame with 3 photos.  Its the same photo, but in three different colors.  Eva loves this.  Tonight Justin was showing her the frame by taking her forever pointed finger and pointing at each photo telling her the colors.  Then he asked her, "which one's blue? Which one's yellow?  Which one's green?" Each time she pointed correctly.   Then the curve ball.  Justin asked, "Which one is orange?"  She hesitated, and did not point.  "Which one is yellow?"  And she pointed correctly.  What a smarty!

Biting

She did not bite me at all today and was nursing with confidence!  Yay!

ROAR!

Lately I have been playing the lion with Eva.  As she is crawling I will snatch her up and tickle her as I roar and give her rasberries.  Its so cute to hear her laugh.  I release her and let her crawl away, but then I just repeat!  Well today I was sitting in the glider with her on my lap getting ready to nurse her.  She started to shake her head and bounce a little bit and then attacked the milk source!  It was so cute, it was as if she was imitating me with her.

Dancing

Eva has been dancing a lot.  She loves music.  She makes jumping movements and shakes her head.  She has pretty good rhythm too :).   Sometimes she even tries to sing along a bit.

Belly Button

She has been playing with my belly button for a couple of months now.  Eva found her belly button today.  I had her playing naked in her room so that I could see when she peed to take her to the actual potty (she never did pee) and her shirt was filthy from lunch.   She sat poking her little finger into her button, then looked at the mirror to watch herself touch it.  She would play and then check it out again.  She also was trying to touch her peepee, but I just distracted her.

Potty Training - Toilet Paper

When Eva was very tiny I use to take her to the potty and have her pee on the toilet.  Even though it was infrequently, the times I was consistent she would pee on command.  It got to be too much for me personally.  I still wanted her to be familar with the concept of going to the bathroom, so frequently I take her with me and sit her on my lap when I go.  I explain to her the different steps involved and then we wash our hands together.

Today I took her with me and sat her on my lap as usual.  This time she saw the toilet paper, grabbed a piece, wiped her "peepee" and dropped it into the toilet!  So cute!  I praised her excitedly and she repeated it several times!  Even later tonight she did it for Daddy all on her own initiative :).  She is so precious and so smart.  She amazes me.

Seahorse

For Christmas Aunt Jesika gave Eva a seahorse that plays songs and makes womb sounds to help them sleep.  I don't give it to her every time I lay her down so that she won't become dependant but I do often.  Today I gave it to her, but she didn't seem to be napping.  So I went to check on her.  She was standing in the corner of her crib facing the door with a pleasant look on her face, "now that you're here..."  her head was resting on her hands and was quietly talking to herself.   When she saw me she started to walkd to the far side of her crib as if to show me something.  She peered over the crib rail and pointed to the floor, where she had dropped her seahorse :).