Been a while

Our Jessi is a year and a half now. She had a terrific Christmas time. She learned all about unwrapping gifts. She got a kick out of the Winter Spiral- especially the singing and dancing. She enjoyed decorating the tree, undecorating and redecorating. Christmas Eve she wore the dress I made for Patricia at the same age. Jessi wore it for about 5 minutes- then she wanted it off. But I got a cute photo anyway! She stayed up to midnight on New Year's Eve. LOVED banging the pots and pans before midnight but got scared when we all banged them loudly. I think she thought she was going to play in the snow, too, since we put her boots on, so she cried for that too. She's copying words now, though still not really in to speaking. She "runs" everywhere. She has been crying a lot lately. Teething too. Going backwards a bit on her peeing EC. Not sure why- I think the teething really is throwing her off. I'm trying to be patient but it isn't easy! I'm glad she still has her BMs every time in the potty. But perhaps it's just that she likes to spray and wipe up the pee. She loves to spray! I've stopped asking her to help me. She weighs 22 lbs. I'll have to measure her height. She loves to be held and dance to any song that comes on TV, radio or even if I am just singing in the kitchen. So sweet. The phone rings and she says "Papa". He came to visit so she got to see the face behind the voice. She hadn't seen him in a while. She still says "Papa" when the phone rings. She really likes Taekwon-do. She says "shoo, shooo" to exhale for TKD, kihaps ("sut") in the most adorable way and does lots of kicks. Super cute! She got a TKD doll outfit for Christmas. Santa also brought her a Waldorf doll and a real camera. Other gifts were puzzles, boots, hand decorated shoes from Trisha, little toy skateboard, books, eyeball ball, baby dolls and more. She really likes going out in the snow. She likes to feed icicles to Elvis. "RA-RA" takes her out. (Trisha) Jessi wants to do everything the big kids do. She enjoyed making her half birthday cake. She decorated it all by herself with her favorite...blueberries! She liked liking off the frosting. (cultured cream cheese, butter, and raw honey) She's been eating less lately. Again, I think her teeth are bothering her. She has three coming in at once. Homeopathic camomilla helps. She enjoys taking photos. The photo of Trisha posted here is by Jessi. Pretty good!