Sasha - 23 months

 My cute little Sha-Sha turned 23 months in August.  Of course, the best part of having a toddler is listening to her attempts to speak (at speaking?)  She finally learned how to pronounce the "P' sound and say "Open" correctly, instead of "Omee."  For some reason Kaleb's name is a complete mystery to her.  She can say well over one hundred words, small phrases and even put a few words together to make a kinda-sorta sentence, but she still calls her brother "Ble-Blem."  Thankfully Kaleb finds it funny.  Sasha is also starting to distinguish letters (which are almost always "E" or "I") from numbers (which are almost always "4").  She surprised us by counting to 3 the other day, and sometimes she remembers the numbers that follow (like six is after five).

Some random things that she says includes whenever she sees something with blood (like a DVD cover) or sleeping she says "Dead."  And random sounds prompt her to pause and whisper, "SH!... noise!"  She also loves to say "kay."  A barrage of nonsense words will always be followed with "kay?" to make sure I was listening.  And of course she always agrees with "kay" even if she really doesn't agree.

Being a toddler, discovering other things your mouth can do is also a lot of fun:

One night she thought my mouth was super-entertaining.  Future in dentistry maybe?

She is a little too young to be sticking her foot in her mouth...

So she sticks it in daddy's!

This month Sasha showed us she could sing "Twinkle Twinkle" all by herself, hand gestures and everything.  I got a video, but for some reason it won't load, so here's a photo.  Her singing sounds something like this:

 "Tinkle tinkle ... star, how undie it are,
Up up up up up up pie, Ikey dimey indy sty,
tinkle tinkle ... star, up up up... you are"

 Since the melody is really repetitive she always repeats the second line over and over and over.  it makes me laugh every time.

In an attempt to get her over singing "Twinkle Twinkle" every night, we tried to introduce a few more songs to sing at bedtime.  This month her obsession became "The Ants go Marching" (or "Boom Boom" as she called it).  She just loved to march around with her brother.  This didn't help calm her down for prayer time and this month in particular she had a really hard time sitting still for it.  Thankfully things are better now!

Another obsession is the TV show word world.  Most days we eat lunch at home, we watch PBS, so after Martha speaks gets over, Sasha immediately yells "WER WERD!" 

It never ceases to amaze me how easy-going Sasha is.  She gets that from Daddy for sure.  She never has a problem making friends, although most days we're at the mall she would rather just climb and dance on my lap.  

 This girl is so silly.  She never gets enough fun and laughing.  This month, sneezing was the funny thing.  She would put stuff on her head and act like she was sneezing "achoo" and motion would make whatever it is fall off.  Classic toddler humor.  Funny faces are also always a big hit!

Another random funny for her is when I dress her in long-sleeved shirts (at bed-time). Her hands would get stuck at the very tips and i would go searching for them and act surprised when I found them.  She also liked it when i got her hands out by just shaking the sleeves really fast.

 Sasha also learned to do a bunch of new things this month.  She can now blow her nose on command and put her sandals on.  She can reach doorknobs now, but still can't open the door (phew!)  She even went potty a few times in the toilet.  One night she had a really bad diaper rash, so I figured we would test out her potty-training readiness... she peed about 5 times on the floor and once in the toilet in the course of an hour.  Needless to say, I got the feeling she just wasn't quite ready.

 

 No matter what my Sasha is capable of, she is always gonna be pretty super to me!