Bragging about Jessica

I can't help but brag a little bit about everything Jessica has been doing lately. She just amazes me so much. I'm a mom, I have a right to brag, right? :) First off, she's kind of using sentences now. Not even kidding. Every night after her bath she waves as the water goes down the drain and says, "Bye bye water." And then tonight at dinner she said, "Mo peas (more please)." And she's always saying words that I have no idea how she picked up.

She's also big into coloring. So we're working on colors. She knows "purple" really well (her Grandma Hales must be so proud) and she gets "yellow" right most of the time. She's also become really interested in letters. Every now and then I used to point to letters and tell her what they were. So she started going up to words and saying random letters. It usually would go something like, "A O O Y A O." So I made her some simple letter flash cards and she is just amazing me. She knows A, O, and H (kind of). She gets them wrong a lot too, but she gets them right often enough that it's not random.

She's also physically "smart" too. We have to fold our chairs whenever we're not using them because she's learned to climb on them. If we turn around she'll be up on the kitchen table grabbing whatever happens to be left there. Or she'll start playing with the laptop. The other day she managed to break off one of the letters on the keyboard. Crazy girl. She also likes to climb up on the back of our couch and look up at the pictures on the wall. She gets so excited when she sees people she recognizes.

Anyways, she's lots of fun and Michael and I both feel so blessed to have her in our life. I wouldn't trade this for anything.