Wow! I just can't believe my little princess is already a year and a half old. I think time speeds up when you have kids. I thought now would be a good time to give on update on what Mercy has been up to! Oh, and of course, add some pictures! These are just a couple of pictures I snapped while she was playing in her room.
- Mercy is walking, running, climbing, and dancing! She moves fast, and it has kept me busy! I spend a lot of the day chasing her. Sometimes I'm chasing her because she wants to play her favorite game "get me", and sometimes it is because she is running off when I need her by me, ha!
- She is talking up a storm! We call her Chatty Cathy sometimes because she just gets going. She speaks in sentences now, and we understand almost all of what she says, though we expect other people probably do not. We were walking down the toy aisles in Target the other day, shopping for a birthday gift. She kept pointing to toys saying, "Momma likes this!" (a not so sneaky way of trying to get me to buy her toys!). She likes to describe what she sees and what she is playing with.
- Mercy is learning how to do somersaults. She mostly just stands on her head and falls to the side, but she thinks it is a great trick! When she is all done doing somersaults, she always says, "No salt!"
- She loves playing outside, especially at the park. She requests "slides" almost everyday. Yesterday she got brave enough to go down the slide all by herself! She also loves to swing. At home, she plays with her bucket and shovel outside, or her ball, or she just wanders around. We'll be getting her a swing set by summertime, I think!
- Mercy is learning some letters and numbers. She says the "ABC" part of the alphabet song and can identify a handful of letters. She loves playing with a her set of foam alphabet letters in the bathtub and with her Leapfrog phonics game. Mercy can count to two- she often puts two toys in front of her and counts, "one, two...two toys!". She also knows that five comes after four, though she can't count to five yet...she just shouts five as soon as I say four when we are counting.
- On of her favorite things to do is what we call room time. She asks for it every morning. It's pretty simple- she just plays in her room by herself. She loves it! So do I! She listens to bible songs, looks at books, and plays with her toys for about 45 minutes every morning.
- Her favorite toys right now are her stuffed animals and her Fisher Price Little People. She LOVES Little People!
- She is still our little book lover. The girl can sit through 60 page books and still want to read more! She gets read to many, many times during the day. Her favorite book to look at right now is the National Audubon Society Guide to the Pacific Northwest, ha! She loves to look at the pictures of animals.
- She is a girly girl! She asks to have her hair done up in "hair bows" (pigtails or pony tail with bows) every day. She loves wearing jewelry and dresses. She likes to sit on the counter and watch me put on makeup. She'll often ask for a cotton ball, and will look in the mirror and pretend to put on makeup like her mama. She hates spiders. She asks, "No spiders?" several times a day, just to be reassured that there aren't any in the house. Though she doesn't mind them outside.
We had a busy Easter weekend! On Friday we went to the praise and worship service at our church. Then, on Saturday morning we took Mercy to our church's Easter egg hunt. She didn't really get into collecting eggs, but she had a blast running around the room, kicking balloons, and giggling.
Checking out a few eggs she collected.
Later on Saturday we dyed Easter eggs. Mercy was not interested in helping dye the eggs, so she watched and ate a snack while we dyed them for her.
Once they dried she got into decorating the eggs with stickers.
Then she had fun peeling the stickers off.
We had a good time!
Sunday morning we got all dressed up for church. Mercy loves wearing pretty dresses. After I got her dressed I took her into my room to look in the mirror. She ran up the full length mirror and yelled, "Beautiful!!"
We're ready to go!
Sunday afternoon we decorated Easter cupcakes. Mercy enjoyed putting the sprinkles on top!
And she even snuck a few sprinkles for herself! We had a blessed weekend!
