This was a fun month with Sonia, exploring new places and continuing the escalation in her language development and physical growth.
One of the things Sonia has really latched onto is “choo choo trains.” So for her 19 mo “photo shoot” we took her to Travel Town to see the real thing.
In addition to her fun trip to Cincinnati, Halloween also fell during this month. Sonia went trick-or-treating for the first time as a woodland fairy. Of course, Mommy liked the costume a lot more than she did, and the extent of her trick-or-treating was getting to watch other kids at about 6 houses. I did let her have one lollipop though. She was a fan of that!
Sonia kept on escalating her language development this month, moving from phrases to full-on sentences. Eric first noticed this at Nona and Papa’s house with “Elmo ride choo choo train” after playing with those toys for hours, but it continued to develop as Sonia learned to refer to herself when she wanted to do something, such as “Sonia wash bowl”, as she has become inclined to do when she’s all done with dinner. This seems to be starting a bit of an independent streak that is maturing along with her now furtive “no” when she doesn’t want to do something. She is even starting to give commands to Luna that she has learned from us. One thing that does elude her, though, is pronouns. If she wants to be carried, it’s “Mama, carry you”, instead of Mama, carry me. She’ll repeat it once correctly when you tell her to, but the next time, it’s still “carry you.”
Sonia continues to love to sing songs and has started to go through her full repertoire while she’s lying in bed in the morning between 5-something when she wakes up and 6:15am when I go in to get her. It is hilarious to listen to her on the monitor, even if it does mean I don’t get to sleep. Other things she newly loves are stickers – pulling them off the paper and sticking them to everything: body parts, stuffed animals, etc – pulling her choo choo trains around the house, doing puzzles, and playing with her toy horses.
