Amanda is starting to show her powers of observation, that she has a pretty good idea what things are use for, just from watching us and big sister. She tries to put the little hat from Mr. Potato Head on her own head. She’ll throw a ball like Eva shows her. Yesterday she grabbed a kitchen towel and hid her face in it, and when I’d say “where’s Amanda?”, she pull it down and giggle hysterically at my surprised expression and exclamation, “there she is!” I find myself amazed that she’s already old enough to initiate games like that, when she’s not even a year old yet!
Amanda loves to play games with Eva, too. It’s getting harder to keep her out of their bedroom while Eva is sleeping. Amanda persists in crawling down the hall and over to her bed, to try and wake Eva up to play with her. Whenever she hears Eva singing, she tries to sing along. Yesterday Eva started singing “Veggie Tales” at the table, and Amanda started copying her (in her own little baby babbling way). Eva caught on pretty quickly, and started an impromptu sing-along of the “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”, “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” and other gems, excitedly yelling, “Gook! ‘manda singing!”
Eva’s vocabulary is rapidly expanding, and she often thinks out loud. When she asks me for something and I say “no”, she’ll repeat the question to herself, and then tell herself the answer she wants to hear: “Chocolate milk? OK, Eva!” A few times she’s tried defying Daddy or me by saying “no” when we ask her to do something, which is promptly answered with “You don’t tell Daddy/Mommy ‘no”!” and a trip to the time-out chair. Lately she’s been talking to herself while in time-out, saying, “No tell Eva time-out!” to nobody in particular. It’s hard not to laugh, but you gotta keep a straight face or the discipline is worthless. Still, it’s cute to hear so clearly what’s going on inside that little head.
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