Our little peanut has certainly grown, even while she
remains tiny. At 20 months, she still wears 12-month size clothes. She’s at
least three inches shorter than I was at her age. And she might weigh in at
about 22 pounds now. Since she now walks and runs everywhere, she has thinned
out. In fact, she needs suspenders. Cloth diapers keep her pants up (mostly),
but since we’re attempting to potty train…let’s just say panties don’t come in
“extremely tiny” and so we spend quite a bit of time pausing to pull everything
back up.
Size has little to do with age, however. Now that we are
closer to being two than having turned one, our attitude is much more
toddler-like. Our vocabulary enlarges every day. We’re forever relating things
in our little world with other things. (For example, when I asked her where her
tongue is, she first pointed to the tongue in her mouth and then pointed to the
tongue on her shoe.) She knows her favorite books by their titles (or part of
their titles). She knows where all her toys belong to be put away. She LOVES to
color – scribbling the paper full of whatever her mind is imagining. And her
stuffed animals are her devoted companions, playing games with her or looking
out the window at the stars, snow and trash truck.
She also knows her own little mind. She’s had that trait
from very early on. She knows what she likes and doesn’t like – what she wishes
to do and what she doesn’t want to do. And she’s certainly not afraid to let
you know. Although not big enough to climb up on the furniture, she has climbed
out of the bathtub. She has a “I-can-do-this-by-myself” independent attitude.
(Mmh…wonder where she got that from…) She knows how to stall, especially at
bedtime. She cuddles up in my arms, declaring, “Hug! Hug!” – this wiggling
little girl who has NEVER been a cuddler. When I call her name to come, she
calls her name back at me, “Emmy!” instead of coming. And if she doesn’t want
to obey, a fit is in order.
And so our baby is growing up – just in time to make room
for the new baby!
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