Mattison Grace: March 2009

Matti will be 15 months old next week. It is so hard to believe. She is beginning to be a true toddler. We have experienced major meltdowns and a lot of independence. Mattison wants to do everything by HERSELF. She is so scheduled now she knows exactly what is going to happen and when it is going to happen. She expects things. If you put her shoes on she automatically starts saying bye-bye and waving. She immediately wants to put her jacket on and heads for the front door. She will stand there and wait for me. Once I am ready to go out she does not want me to pick her up she wants to walk out by herself and she wants to shut the door herself. I usually grab her hand and led her to the car, although she wants to play in the front yard and screams and cries when I pick her up to put her in the car. Once she is settled she is fine.
She has also started talking A LOT. More baby babble than real words, but every now and then she will say something that and throw a real word in there. She has started saying Mommy and Daddy instead of Mama and dada. Any time she sees a baby whether it be in a picture or a real baby she says baby over and over.
She also can make some animal sounds. If you ask her what sound a sheep makes she says ba-a cow she says mawwww-lion she growls. It is quite funny.
Also the other day I picked her up from school and we usually come home and have a snack and some milk. Matti started signing for more. It completely caught me off guard. I had stopped signing with her because she would not pay me any attention and then out of nowhere she did it. I ask the teachers at school and found out that they are teaching signs to them. WOW-it just took someone other than me for her to pay attention.
They really work with her a lot at school. I am very impressed with the daycare we chose. The teacher actually has a lesson plan book for them. She has brought home art work and I can see the results of the teachers working with her and teaching her. I am just so thankful I made the right decision.
Matti has only had four teeth since she was 12 months old and finally she is getting several teeth all at once. Including her molars. Her poor gums are blood red and swollen. Her top right molar has already peaked through and the rest are not far behind. She should have a full set of teeth within the next month. She has been really cranky and will cry in pain just out of no where.
Sleeping is excellent. Matti of course has been off the bottle for a while. We have kept the same night time routine with the exception of the bottle. Now, after her bath and we get her pajamas on she knows it is time for bed. Matthew and I usually get her ready for bed together. When we are finished she usually starts blowing her daddy kisses and says ni ni dada and waves at him. It is so sweet. I will rock her and tell her a story softly and within a minute or two she will sit up in my lap and look over at her bed as if she is ready to be put down. I will kiss her head, tell her I love her and put her down. Sometimes she will talk to herself until she passes out, but never any crying. We are so proud of her. The same goes for naps. She is ready for a nap every day at 11:30am and does not fight going down. She sleeps an 1 1/2 and sometimes if we are lucky 2 hours. Wow between us sticking with a night time routine and daycare training her on the cot things are great when it comes to sleeping habits.
So much has happened over the past month it would take me all day to post so from now on I promise to post every day or every other day even if I do not have pic's or videos. That is the only way I can keep the blog current and not leave anything out.

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