Crayons

Previously, whenever we took Cecilia to a restaurant and she was given crayons, she would simply chew on them and try to turn her lips and teeth different colors.

Today for the first time she got the idea and began drawing on the table! And then bit off the tip of the green crayon. But it is progress.

Hopefully within the next couple of months she will be able to start coloring with all the crayons I've been saving from restaurants! LOL

Beef, It's What's for Dinner!

We have tried numerous times to get Cecilia to eat beef. We've tried plain hamburger meat, hamburger meat with beef gravy, steak and roast all to no avail. The only way we could get beef in her was through a hotdog.

Until today...

She did not turn her nose up at filet mignon. Can't imagine why?

She ate several pieces and was grinning from ear to ear after each one. Well, at least we know she does like beef and hopefully in the future we can get her to like some not quite so expensive steaks as well.

We've Created a Monster

Cecilia keeps repeating her new word, "done," anywhere and everywhere. So much so I began to wonder if she really knew what it meant. I wonder no more.

Earlier today she needed a diaper change but did not want one. As soon as we put her on the changing table we hear, "Done!Done!Done!"

This evening I was trying to trim her nails. I got one completed when I she began fighting me saying, "Done!Done!Done!" In the past half hour I've gotten 2 nails trimmed. I may have to finish after she is asleep.

First Word!!!

Now, Cecilia has been saying "mama" and "dada" for months but we don't know when she began to know who "mama" and "dada were." So we were waiting to hear some other word.

Today Cecilia was having some mac and cheese and peas at lunch. When James saw her mashing more peas than eating them, he asked her, as we always do, "Are you done?" She proceeded to begin eating more peas. So he went to check his email and let her nibble some more. While I was sitting here at my computer suddenly I began to hear, over and over again, "Done, Done, Done." I turned around and sure enough she had stopped eating. I went over to her and asked, "Are you done?" and she said, "done," with arms outstretched for me to get her out! I told James to come hear her first word and we both repeated with her and applauded her and made her say it again and again.

So, discounting the standard "mama" and "dada" (of which she said "dada" first), Cecilia's first word is "Done!" at almost 14 1/2 months.

As promised...