Ivy Brag

Ivy has earned some bragging moments. I cannot help but compare my 2 kids. They have many similarities but more differences. Both seem to have picked up their communicative skills quickly which is nice. However, in the past whenever I talked about Ivy's language I would always say something like, "Yes, she has a lot of words, but No where near as many as her brother did at this age." Poor Ivy. She has so many other strengths, that hopefully someday she won't mind that I said that.
And now, her language is just exploding. She amazes me every day with all that she says, and at the same time it kind of makes me sad because it just means she is growing up so fast. She is 17 months old. She has well over 100 words now. I lost track somewhere in the 90's and she has said MANY more since then. I lost track with Z at this same age (must be when the vocab exploded for both of them), but he had about 200 words then. ;)
However, I think Ivy is superseding Z when it comes to putting words together and sentences. If I remember correctly Z didn't really start independently putting words together until 18 months, and Ivy is now doing it all. the. time. Her favorite word is "I" (LOL), and she has many I phrases that she uses appropriately. Here are some of her sentences/phrases:
I do
I love you
I do too
I too
I cold
I strong (my most recent fave)
I potty
I poop
I done
me too
no way
Look Giraffe (yesterday when she wanted to show me her toy)
I like blue (blueberries)
I want mommy
Where are you
I don't want
and once said all together: I want mommy. bye daddy. bye pawpaw. <3

I'm sure I am forgetting some, but those are the ones I hear most often. Also her understanding amazes me. She understands the concept of 2. She knows hot vs cold. If I say One, she will say two, three, four. She is starting to try to say her abc's, sing old mac donald, and I have even heard her say a few words of twinkle twinkle little star. If she sees toy letters, or a large letter in a book she always points to it and says E or O. LOL. The point being that she at least recognizes what letters are, even if she thinks they are all E's and O's.

I'm so grateful for my smart lil babies. (Although the fact that they are happy and healthy is what makes me MOST grateful) :) Okay brag done for the moment.

Hopefully I'll update on Christmas and such next post.

Newest milestone

Ivy now totally understands the concept of ..............pooping. :)
She has been saying poop while or afterwards for a couple days now and reaching back to her bottom. Today she was reaching back and saying poop, so I checked and there was nothing.
I put her on the toilet for her first time. She sat there happily for a minute but nothing happened. I put her diaper back on and about 5 minutes later she came up to me and said "I poop". And she sure did! The the whole time I was changing her diaper she kept sayin "I poop".
Only a mom would think this was absolutely adorable. :-).