Mirra's Milestones

9 months

Mirra is rapidly exhibiting her personality. She has a lot of it for someone so small. She is going through a hitting phase, especially when she is told 'no.' She recently stopped her latest pinching phase. She decided it wasn't so much fun if I pinched her back. Takes a stinker to know a stinker, I guess. She screams bloody murder now when Drew takes something from her. Unfortunately, this doesn't deter her brother from snagging her stuff.

Her speech has made a great deal of progress. In the last two weeks she has said: basket, lights, please, horse, Jason, book, this, Blackjack (the name of the neighbors' cat) plus several more that I can't seem to remember while under pressure to write them here.

She even walked up to Andy the other day, looked him in the eye and said "let's go play." I'm still amazed about that one. Had to be a fluke, right?

She is not adapting well to her morning program. I think it is because she still likes a morning nap and she can't do that with 7 other kids running around. Most likely we will have to pull her out at the end of the month. Her needing that morning nap makes it difficult for me to go grocery shopping with her while Drew is at school because she is especially cranky and impatient sitting in the cart. So I am working on a new plan.

She can show us where her nose, eyes, ears, mouth, tummy, toes, and hair are.

She loves to kiss, with sound effects. If I kiss her on the cheek she will kiss me back multiple times. Melts my heart for sure.

She can identify the written letter 'O' and she likes to draw. She loves to find a pen and paper and walk around like she is writing things down. She also seems to think she is right-handed. I thought one of my kids would be a lefty like their dad, but they both have proved me wrong. Won't be the last time I am sure.

16 months