Nanea 23 Months

Nanea has grown a lot this month, especially since the birth of her sister. She:

*absolutely loves brushing her teeth.  

*likes to tie her hair up now.

*likes to chose what clothes she wants to wear 

*can put her pants on by herself

*plays hide and seek in the blankets and in the cabinet.

*sings and dances "Pop corn popping on the apricot tree" and "Book of Mormon Stories" that tutu taught us.

*amazes us with new frases daily.

*has adjusted to having a younger sister in the house.  She helps bring diapers and wipes to change and throws the dirty one away.  She also loves hugging and kissing her sister, sometime a little too much.  Sometimes she gets jealous because I'm feeding Hali'a so much.  

*she's a good helper.

*looks forward to when daddy comes home to play with her.

From Her Head Start assessment, Nanea: 

• Comforts self by seeking out special object or person, accepts redierction from adults, plays near other children; uses similar materials or action; seeks a preferred playmate; shows pleasure when seeing a friends; responds appropriately to others' expressions of wants; experiments with different ways of moving and balancing; expresses feelings during a conflict; manipulates balls or similar objects with stiff body movement; grasps drawing and writing tools, jabbing at paper; identifies familiar people, animals, and objects when prompted; follows simple people, animals, and objects; uses some words and word-like sounds and is understood by most familiar people; initiates and attends to brief conversations; uses appropriate eye contact, pauses, and simple verbal prompts when communicating; practices an activity many times until successful imitates others in using objects in new and/or unanticipated ways; recognizes familiar people, places, and object; looks for hidden object where it was last seen; looks for familiar persons when they are named; relates object to events; matches similar objects; recognizes people, objects, and animals in pictures or photographs; imitates actions of others during play; uses real objects as prompts; verbally counts; matches 2 identical shapes.
• She is beginning to:
• orient book correctly; turns pages from front of the book to the back; recognizes familiar books by their covers; to make simple statements about recent events and familiar people and objects that are not present; to demonstrate confidence in meeting own needs; manage separations without distress an engages with trusted adults; to demonstrate concern about the feelings of others; to use refined wrist and finger movements; to use 3 to 4 -word sentences; may omit some words or use some words incorrectly.

Falling asleep to her favorite movie, Strek