21 Month Update

Diana is becoming more and more of a toddler and less and less of a baby every day!  I feel like she is literally growing up before my eyes.  She is still holding true to her original personality traits of strong willed and independent.  Although these traits are a challenge some days and can be very exhausting, I am starting to appreciate them.  I want my daughter to be "tough" for every challenge life faces her with.  Some of the things that have changed with Diana over the last month...she now knows most of her face parts and will point to them when you ask her.  She is learning new words every day.  The biggest change for her probably is she has free rain of the house now.  We no longer block the stairs with the toy box.  She had learned how to pull it out and could get around it anyway so why bother.  Luckily she is VERY good at climbing up and down the stairs (she goes backwards on her belly) so I don't worry too much, it does still scare me though for multiple reasons (will she fall and what is she going to get into?).  It's cute though listening to her little pitter patter upstairs when I am downstairs.  Usually she ventures upstairs to get her pacifier out of her bed.  We have been making her leave it in there and she is only supposed to have it when she is sleeping.  However, about 5 pm every day when I am starting to cook dinner, she crawls upstairs and gets it, comes back down with it and smiles at me.  She is so proud of herself!  She is still a good sleeper and goes to bed at night so easily!  We are very lucky.  Both of our kids go to bed at night really good and normally never wake up, unless they are sick or teething.  I am finding out this is not necessarily the norm but I sure am happy it's the norm in our house!  Jonathan is by far Diana's best friend and favorite thing in the whole world.  She gets sad when he leaves without her and as soon as she wakes up from her nap she says, "bro bro."  We normally have to get our shoes on right away as she thinks we can go get him from school.  She continues to be a good eater but has different taste than Jonathan. She could take or leave pizza, which we all know is Jonathan's favorite, and she loves beans, which Jonathan has never liked.  She does have a sweet tooth though.  Mention the word ice cream around this girl and she will do a happy dance, but you better get her that ice cream or it will quickly turn into crying and stomping.   She also loves chocolate.