Twenty-One Months

We took these pictures pretty close to the twenty-one month mark (a few days late) but I am very late writing the post. We'll see if I can remember what I wanted to highlight! As you can tell, Juliet is getting harder to photograph simply because this child is never still!

Juliet talks so much now. I really can't list all her new words. She'll try to say about anything, now, and loves to boss around her big brother. If he gets scolded for something, she shakes her finger at him and says "No, no, Ben!" It is adorable though I'm sure he isn't a fan.

After a couple successes on the potty at bedtime, Juliet has stopped showing much interest. She still loves to keep Ben company and she talks about the potty a lot, but she hasn't gone successfully again. I'm not in a hurry! We're going to wait until after all our fall travel and crazy December to do any training unless she is insistent.

Juliet seems so big these days. Some of her 24-month clothes that have been washed a lot are starting to seem a little small. She is definitely long-torsoed like her daddy; there are still some 12-month pants that fit but she definitely needs the 24-month/2T shirts.

Juliet finally lets me fix her hair! I think it gets in her eyes a lot - she has a cute little gesture where she uses the palm of her hand to push her hair out of her face. So now I get to do ponytails and pigtails and it is adorable. Usually when I offer a bow she says "No bow!" but sometimes she feels like being fancy and I get to put in a bow.

For play, Juliet still loves her babies and purses. She'll go in my closet to get a purse, get a baby, and head for the back door, saying "Bye Bye Mommy! Bye Bye Daddy!" She's on a mission. She also loves to be rough-and-tumble with her big brother. As she gets bigger and sturdier I don't have to worry about that quite as much!

Bedtime is still about 7:30pm, and most days she's in bed when it's time to get ready for daycare, about 6:45am. Juliet wants to take more and more things to bed - a baby doll, a new stuffed animal, all her blankies. It's getting quite crowded in there. She has tried a couple times to climb into her bed but so far hasn't tried to get out, so we're thinking the crib will last a little while longer. Famous last words?