Amalani is 20 months old. She still weighs 23 lbs (been the same for several months) and seems small because I'm used to seeing her with her cousins. I think she, Reagan, and Maddison all weigh about the same and Reagan is 1 year and Maddison is 10 months. I feel like I offer her food all day every day but she is too active to keep any of it on. She is on hyper mode from the moment she wakes up until pretty late at night when she finally falls asleep. There's usually no winding down process either. She's wide awake climbing up the windowsill to jump onto the couch and then suddenly she's out.
Here's some of her most recent little habits:
-She loves to group hug so she'll grab Noke's neck and my neck and squeeze our three heads together.
-When it's bedtime I sing Primary songs to her and tickle her legs and feet. She just started singing back to me and tickling me so that now we're taking turns. She's better at putting me to sleep than I am at putting her to sleep.
-When she's fake-crying I catch her walking over to the mirror to see what she looks like.
-She is into keys and always needs to be the one to unlock the car door or the door to the house.
-Her favorite Youtube video is You Gotta Hold on Me with Smokey Robinson and a huge letter "U" puppet.
-She loves to say prayer. When we tell her "lotu" she kneels down and squints her eyes half shut and mumbles long sentences with deep breaths in between then says "AMEN!" and starts clapping for herself.
-We have a random Tongan music mix CD in the car and she loves to sing along and bob her head.
-She LOVES to dance. If she can hear music she's dancing. (Or if she's eating something she really likes). She loves going to dances too and is usually shy when we first get there. As soon as she's warmed up though she won't get off the dance floor and is sweaty by the time I drag her off.
-She wants to high-five, shake hands and 'pound it' with EVERYONE.
-She love bubbles.
-She loves going to the grocery store and always wants to push the cart without our help. She grabs the bar that is about 18 inches off the ground and runs for it. We have to be sneaky about helping her steer.
-To her, every animal makes a growling sound. We look though books and I'll quack for the duck and ribbet for the frog and neigh for the horse...Amalani just growls back at me. Same thing when she sees animals in person.
-She says please and thank you but "please" usually comes out after she's screamed "MOM, MOM, MOM, MOM" and then there's a big cheesy smile with her head tilted to the side and a sweet "pweeee" (please).
-Her favorite shoes are her blue galoshes from Hawaii.
-She really doesn't like to be sticky or dirty and will run to me with her hands out so that I can clean them if her food has made a mess.
-She wants to help with everything I do around the house. She helps me put dishes away, she pushes the vacuum, she has her own little broom and dustpan that she helps me sweep with. She is so excited when I let her help, especially with cooking and stirring.
-And, like most kids I know that are her age, she's obsessed with toothbrushes and I find her walking around the house with a toothbrush and toothpaste several times everyday.
That's all I can think of for now. Love my little girl.
I haven't taken pictures of her in a while either so here are some pics from our family barbecue yesterday. They're not the greatest but they are pictures...
