25 1/2 months

Oh Leonie, we just can't get over how cute you are. Every day she seems to just get cuter and cuter. Kevin always comments on how stinking cute she is. She is just the cutest little girl in the whole wide world. Right now at 25 months almost 26 months all, she has some super cute and hilarious-"isms." Probably one of my favorite is that for several months now you use the word please or "peez" in stead of the word yes. In fact, she has never said the word yes that I know of. And lately she answers "uh-peez." Putting the "uh" in front of the peez. It is so funny and she says it different ways. Sometimes it's really fast and in a monotone voice and sometimes it's very slow and cute. She hasn't done it lately, but when I would put her down for her nap or for bed time, while I was holding her and rubbing her back I would tell her I love her, over and over, and after each time she would reply "peez." So stinking cute. Pretty much every day right now she says a new word. Right now she is often saying "mommy's running shoes" or "daddy's work shoes." When she says work, she calls it "wert." And she says "daddy at wert." It's so cute because I always explain to her that daddy is at work so that mommy can be home with her all day. She is now really understanding that or at least telling me that he is at work. She also tells me "mommy at home wit meeee?" Another cute thing she is saying a lot right now is "watch this. " she will do any random thing from running across the room to jumping off something small or falling on her butt on the bed or jumping in her crib. It is so cute and she loves to ask us to watch her. She is much more into the iPhone and playing with it lately mostly watching the PBS kids app but she also likes to mess around with all of the apps and look at the pictures and watch videos that I did over and over. Especially the ones singing happy birthday to anybody especially her birthday. She is super affectionate, and often will rub your back and kiss you many times or wrap her arms around your leg. It is cute to see her interact with her baby doll, she swaddles the baby and puts her down for nap, and she pretends to nurse her sometimes and the other day I caught her putting the pumping cones on her tummy! She seems to enjoy her baby brother but definitely gets up in his face a lot. Right now I think she is cutting her two year molars. She has been cranky off and on for several days and had a runny nose yesterday. She is also very into saying "me! " she can be quite independent and now always wants to do most things on her own. She insists usually on climbing into her own car seat, and always wants to click the buckle. It takes forever to get her in the car and sometimes even out of the car because she wants to climb down by herself. She is very obsessed with baby Greta right now too. She will often just ask "baby Gretta at home? " when we ask her at night who she wants to pray for she always always says baby Greta first, at least right now! It's so sweet.