Seren turns 20 months today! 20!? As in very close to age TWO? Amazing! It is all going too quickly. Month 19 has been the month of words and sounds. She isn't stringing words together yet but she is getting close. She loves to repeat the sounds back to us. The last word of every sentence is repeated. She is growing like a weed still and seems to be filling out.
Seren is also very clingy. I don't know if this is a normal thing for 20 month olds or what. (Ideas?) But if I had a dollar for every time I heard "Up! Mommma! Up!", our new sewer system would be paid for! Not that I'm really complaining. :) I love the snuggles! Her favorite things still include books. Books all of the time. We do put our books down when we take a bath everynight. But she sleeps with one book each night. If one attempts to pry it away before placing her in her crib, all heck breaks loose. So, last night she went to bed with her Elmo book. This has become a habit.
Seren seems to be quite afraid of loud noises. When the vacuum cleaner is turned on, a loud chorus of "UP! Up! UP!" begins. Same thing for the hairdryer. These noises didn't seem to bother her before. She continues to be very shy with strangers. Walking into a room full of people is very scary. We usually hold her for 15 minutes before she decides she is ok with the group.
She continues to bring us many laughs. She seems to have a great sense of humor. The last week has brought a bit more "independence" as she seems to be trying out the rules of our house. "Do they really mean it when they say I shouldn't pour milk on the floor?" Last night, when she tried this, she said to us "No" as if she was self correcting. So, that is one half of the battle. The other half, of course, being to stop pouring milk on the floor. :)
20 months!? 20 months. Happy Birthday, sweetpea!
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Congratulations to her and to you two for making it thus far. Joshua is also going through a clingy-afraid of loud noises phase. What is especially funny is when he sees the vacuum cleaner, he grabs my hand and motions for me to turn it on, but when I do, he gets startled and wants me to turn it off and be held. Ah, the whims of a toddler.
Happy birthday to you soon too!
The clinginess sounds normal to me! Beth also blogged about her son being clingy at this age, so if Alex, Seren and William are doing it, it must be normal. We've got a lot of clinging to our legs begging to be picked up going on here.
Time seems to be flying by faster and faster each month!
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