Gloria

In Salado Gloria Joy got to meet Gloria Anne-the original Gloria!

Gloria is growing and growing. She is officially a walker now (which makes outfits sooo much easier). Her two favorite things are chairs and babydolls. She loves to climb into little chairs, rocking chairs, car seats, strollers and anything else she can sit in, but getting down in harder. There is a baby doll high chair and baby doll stroller in Lydia's room and she places dolls back and forth there. She also loves to hug them and so sweetly pats them on the back. Sometimes she won't let one go and she ends up in bed with it.
She also talks up a storm but 95% of what she says is daDAA (raised at the end) but we think she knows what she is really saying in her mind. But just yesterday she said uhoh for the first time and in the right context. Noo (said naanaa) in the correct setting is showing up a lot now too. She says ball and byebye and in childcare today they said she said snack (though I haven't heard it) which leads me to the next thing about Gloria-she eats and eats and eats. She is pickier than Lydia but generally enjoys a variety of food. Today for dinner we had pomegranate seeds, mac & cheese with tuna, then when she was still hungry, hummus and goldfish and then when she was still hungry watermelon; and of course this is after a big breakfast, snacking the whole time at Friendship, lunch and another snack! Which leads to the next thing about Gloria (people without kids stop reading now) she poops a ton. But fortunately since she was about 6 months old sometimes its on the potty. I put her on the potty right after breakfast and after her afternoon snack and 75% of the time she does her business there-it is so nice. We enjoy that time and often its the only time that I read to her as tonight for her bedtime story she pushed off my lap and the book away saying Naanaa and went after a baby doll! She was such an easy laid back mellow baby but that all changed at 11 months and now she is quite active and sometimes fussy and fit throwing but we love her the same!