Hi Sidra,
Wow, it always amazes me when I finally get around to doing a new post and find out that it has been a month since the last post. But it's a lot easier to keep up with it when I'm on vacation. According to the title of the post there must be something about puzzles here. You have become quite a puzzle master. You have a set of zigsaw puzzles that has four puzzles that each have 4 pieces. They are the following mother/baby pairs of animals: Lions, Penguins, Giraffes, and alligators (or crocodiles as I don't know the difference). Those puzzles you can do by yourself in about 2 minutes. They don't even challenge you at all.
You also have some other 24 piece puzzles of Dora the explorer, Pooh, Eyeore, and Tigger. When working those, if we get the perimeter in place you can pretty much finish the rest on your own. I', always amazed because as soon as we dump the peices out you immediately have a couple pieces together before I can get them all turned face up. Your mom just bought you a about 8 more puzzles of about the same difficulty so you can keep trying new ones. They are all either Pooh family or Mickey mouse puzzles.
The other big development for you is speaking complete sentences. You are constantly suprising us with your speech, not so much with the fact that you can use a sentence, but what you are saying. For instance, in the middle of the night recently you said 'Mom, don't be sad.' Which kind of threw us because we were pretty much asleep and not showing any emotion, sad or otherwise. We figured you probably picked up the phrase in a story or video that you'd seen. You've also said more obviously motivated things like "Dad, I want another cookie" and "Sidra sleep in this bed."
Without question the best line you've ever spoken (to me) came last night. We were in the kitchen waiting for the cookies to get done. You'd had a pretty tough day, I guess, you had had a short fuse emotionally all day. So you had asked me to 'hold you and rock' and I was trying to comply with that request while standing and gently swaying. You put your head on my shoulder and then said "She loves her daddy" and of course that just made me melt. You have ways of grabbing us right by the heart and that was one of them.
By the way, while writing that last paragraph I had to stop in the middle and rock you to sleep. You had asked earlier to sleep in our bed tonight and we had turned you down. I put you in the crib and except for a couple minutes of silence you had wailed "daddy, daddy......." interupted by an occasional 'mommy' for about 10-15 minutes. I gave up and went in and got you from the crib. But, I didn't let you go in our bed because we had already said no to that I wanted to keep my word. But I put you on the twin bed right behind where I am sitting now. You were quiet and tried to sleep for about 10-15 minutes, but then asked for rocking. Now you are asleep behind me.
She Loves Her Daddy. Well, her Daddy Loves Her.
Love, aba
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Sidra, you spent a day with Grandma and Grandpa last week. I was trying to teach you the name of the mountain out our window, Mountain Adams. Hopefully you'll remember it next time you are here.
You weren't feeling well when you arrived so we rocked for quite a long time before you went to sleep. When you woke up, you were our happy Sidra again.
Love you. Grandma and Grandpa
I missed a couple of blogs. But we missed your visit. After you were sick Grandpa and Grandma were sick too. We were afraid you'd catch our bug. I didn't know how much we missed you until I saw your blog. I tried to get your parents to enter you in a baby contest but they didn't. I know you would have won!
We are eager to have you come and spend a day with us!
Love you, Grandma /Grandpa
smallon
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