Tuesday, March 20, 2012

More Firsts

We have been enjoying the unseasonably warm weather along with everyone else who lives in our area.  Madelyn is very excited to go to the park, and this spring has been more fun for us to bring her than it was last summer.  She is so much more independent, making choices and playing on the playground equipment without as much assistance as she needed last year.  One thing that she has been doing with Justin when he takes her to the park is counting the steps up to the top of the big slide (there are 9) and today for the first time she actually counted with Justin.  Granted, she didn't actually get all the numbers.  She skipped one and four and she's not convinced about seven, but still!

After dinner tonight we were playing with Madelyn's AquaDoodle and she wanted me to write out "Dada" for her.  She then spent several minutes saying "Dada!  D-a-d-a."  She even spelled it out for Justin when he came to see her.  I tried to convince her that she should give spelling mama a chance too, but I could only get "M - mama!"  I'll keep trying though :)

1 comment:

Elise said...

That's cute! Hope she spells Mama for you soon. I remember how badly I wanted Alethea to say Mama when she first started talking, but it was Da-da-da-da all day long!