Girls...

No matter what some people may say, boys and girls are inherently different. I didn't actively encourage Moose to play with cars and trucks over dolls and pink things. But there's no denying what he wants to play with (and has since he was quite young.) The same goes for little Monkey.

I have realized over the past few days that my little girl has quite the shoe fetish. She has always enjoyed pulling shoes out of our basket near the door. But since we've been going outside more, and she's been walking around our apartment, she loves to take out her shoes and put them on. Well, she tries to put them on.

This might also just be her excitement about going outside. I don't deny that. But tonight as she was playing with her shoes, I took my high heels and stood her up in them. And she liked it.

So, Monkey has been getting more comfortable with her sign language, occasionally learning "please" and "more". Tonight at dinner, she had some food on her tray and started to throw a small fit and was acting like she wanted out of her chair.

But she refused to sign "all done".

This is a sign she's pretty comfortable with and uses multiple times every day. But she would not say it. She hadn't had much to eat. We continued to encourage her to say all done, even though she refused and continued to squirm in her chair and reach for the floor.

Until about 5 minutes had passed with on and off fussing. Then she stopped, looked at her sandwich and took 2 big bites. Apparently she wasn't done, but was just really hoping she could get something else to eat.

Although a small victory for us, it didn't last too long. She was quite the cantankerous little lady. But we realized she's drooling like her mouth has been numbed, so we're assuming although there's no evidence yet, she's probably starting to get her 1 year molars. So we finally wised up and gave her some tylenol. Then she was back to the happy lady we all know and love.