Juliet Update

Juliet is now 19 months. She’s getting a larger vocabulary; it’s nice when she can tell us what she wants, most often it is milk, water, or blankie. She said mama and meant it for the first time on Mother’s day. Before she would always say just dada for both of us. Sometimes I would catch her babbling and making a mamama sound, but when I would ask her to say mama, she would instead emphatically say ‘dada!’ So on mother’s day she said mama and meant it and has been saying it ever since. Along with the vocabulary is an increased desire for us to understand what she wants and when she doesn’t get it she lets us know. She is asserting her will quite a bit and is becoming a true toddler. She’s also trying to stand up for herself against Jack; she knows the meaning of ‘mine’ and ‘no.’

She tries to take after Jack and do like he does. She will drive cars on the ground while making a motor sound.

She's at the stage where she likes to climb into things, usually toy buckets and cardboard boxes, but also book boxes at the library.       

Juliet can now have pigtails!

Although this is her typical look now, with one ponytail out the top/side (and food stains down her front.)

She likes to dig in the dirt and mud, and give me the handfuls, or find a slid or other place to pile it up.  

Her love of furry things continues. She loves her blankets, stuffed animals, and dogs and cats. She will run to our neighbors fence to say hi to her dog if its out, and will chase after stray cats and cry when they get to far away from her.

Still a thumb sucker.

After moving out here I learned that mulberry bushes are real things (but are actually trees) and they have edible fruit. I didn’t have any desire to try them until recently we saw them ripe and I thought we might as well see if this free fruit is any good. The trees are all over and dropping berries in a big mess underneath. Juliet loves to eat these, and will pick them off the ground and eat away if I don’t catch her in time. I think they taste like tree.

Juliet has become our little daredevil! She likes to climb on high things and then jump/fall onto her stomach. She mostly does this on the couch, by standing on the arm and doing a belly flop onto the cushions, usually accompanied by a cute ‘oof’. She also does this in her crib, off her high chair base, and on our bodies if we are laying down.

We'll keep her.