All About Mary

I thought a few days ago of doing "About us" posts.
Hopefully my far away family will appreciate it since they don't get to see us often.  Some of my family hasn't even met Louis or our girls.  I'll start with Mary and work my way up! 

Mary:

was born September 22

she is almost 17 months old

Mary's Personality:

Mary is quiet and likes to watch others before jumping into things.  Eyes wide open and taking things in.

Easy going, simple, easy to get a giggle out of.  She is shy when first meeting people.  She's been like that since she was a baby.  I had several people say, "she doesn't like me"  which made me sad.  She was a baby!  She didn't not like you!  It's just the way she is, She's just gotta warm up to you.

Mary loves:

Books!  She will sit for a half an hour easily just reading a book.  

Mary sat reading this book for at least an hour this day!  (I also love that it's upside down!)

Lately she has also started to like coloring.

She loves the song I am a Child of God.  Just this morning we watched this video about 20 times and she'll sit through it the entire time too.  She is always asking for us to sing it.  She'll say, "Sing a song?  Child of God? Again?  Please?"  Then when we start singing it she laughs because she's so happy we understood her jabbering!

She loves all fruit.  I have yet to give her some fruit that she hasn't liked.  Her favorites are apples, oranges, and bananas.  She also liked grapes and pineapple, but we don't have those often.

Chocolate and cookies.  What child does not love these things?

She loooves her binkie and the scarf she stole from me back in July.  I have tried to take it back from her multiple times, but it hasn't worked.  She loves that thing.  Whenever she's sad or tired she'll go find it and hold it up by her face walking around.

Mary loves her sister.  She loves following her around and doing what she does.  They love to laugh with each other and play ring around the rosies.  Avery will hold Mary's hand and Mary will follow wherever Avery leads her.  Hopefully Avery will continue to lead her to good places

Mary knows:  

Mary knows a few letters.  She knows A, B, N, O.  There could be others that I don't know she knows!

Mary knows most of her colors.  Purple, yellow, orange, red, blue, green, yellow, white, black, brown.  She has picked up on them quickly!

She is starting to learn her shapes, as of now she knows circle and triangle.  

Mary knows a lot of words!  She is a talker.  Hi, bye, baby, i love you, ball, some (she says, "a-hom") toy, play, eat, seat, car, outside, bed, orange, banana, apple, bread, waffle, bath, splash, book, again, more, done, down, on, off, open, poopy, change, bum, sit, trash, cookie, drink, milk, juice, etc etc!  So many words!  She amazes me.  If I ask her to say a word, she'll do her best to repeat it.

Things Mary can do:  

Mary throws away her own diapers.

She puts her dirty clothes in the hamper.

Mary knows to go to her seat when it's time to eat.  

She is learning to use a spoon and fork, she gets it every once in a while.

Mary has almost climbed right over the gate on the stairs.

She gets her own shoes when it's time to go.

She puts away her jacket when we get home.

Mary can climb up and go down a slide all by herself.  Her sister and Papa taught her just on Saturday.

She's starting to do puzzles.

Mary is a beautiful, sweet, happy, funny little girl.  

We love having her in our home.  She bring us so much happiness and joy.