Where should I start to describe our little girl at one and a half years old? There are so many little things I want to remember and she is changing so fast that I feel I already forgot half of the things I swore I'd never forget. I'll try to write down as much as possible so I can come back to remember.
- If I had to choose one word to describe Lily I would choose "hungry". She is constantly hungry and constantly eating. She comes all the time and takes my hand and I have to go with her to the fridge where she demands "auf" ("open" in german) and then tries to get me to hand her the desired food. If she sees me cooking in the kitchen she instantly climbs in her chair ready to eat. And if we are at the park and I didn't bring enough snacks she starts soliciting other people for food if she sees them eating. Surprisingly she is below average for her weight and according to her pediatrician just seems to have a very high metabolism. Lucky her! She is not a picky eater either and eats almost anything.
- Lily is still in love with her pacifier. She has bionic ears and eyes when it comes to locating one. She can hear the little click sound that thing makes if you pick it up, from another room and instantly comes running for it. She is totally deaf though if we ask her to come or hurry up, so now guess our little trick to get her moving :) ...
- We also have another trick to get her moving but unfortunately it never works. Know the old "You better hurry, Mama and Papa are leaving!"? This one always worked with Emmi and still does but Miss Lily couldn't care less. The only response we get it Emmi screaming "NO, we have to take Lily with us!" while she tries to drag her over to us. I have gone as fas as hiding from her to see what Lily would do if she found herself alone in a grocery store, but she only looks around delighted that no one is watching and goes straight looking for trouble.
-Lily loves babies. Both my girls definitely have the Mama gene. They rarely play with anything else but dolls and stuffed animals and at 18 months Lily is quite an attentive Mama. She cooks for her baby, gives her the bottle, pushes her around in the stroller, constantly wipes her down and NEVER forgets to take her if we go somewhere.
-And Lily's babies always drink out off a bottle, they never nurse and neither does Lily anymore. Emmi had such a hard time when I weaned her at 15 months because I was pregnant with Lily, so I was going to let Lily nurse as long as she wanted to. But at 15 months she was done and never asked for it again and her babies only take bottles. Emmi still "nurses" her dolls.
-Lily also loves dogs and her little beanie baby dog "Wau Wau" comes right in second after her doll and gets to go to sleep with her too.
-Lily has a quite impressive vocabulary of about 50 words she uses consistently and she just started putting words together into two word sentences like "Bye Papa". Most of her spoken vocabulary is in German but she understands English just as well.
-Lily is an attention craver. If Emmi gets hurt so does Lily. She will actually fall down or hit her head against a table on purpose to make it look more authentic before she starts fake crying. She also loves to make people laugh.
-Lily doesn't sleep through the night anymore. At least not in her own bed and she sure knows that her parents are push overs who will let her sleep in their bed if she looks real pitiful. And we are still really good at making excuses of why we should let her sleep in our bed (teething, nightmares, cough, Tuesday... ) We don't even try to make excuses for Emmi anymore whenever she comes in between 1 and 3 am most nights. We just hold up our blanket so she can snuggle up. Yeah, I admit it is cramped sometimes, but I sure will miss it someday.
-Lily loves to to hold Emmi's hand when we go for walks. I never want to forget how she asks Emmi "hand, hand!" as she is running after her. And Emmi is sure to comply. They love each other so much!
