Alice can now say (sort of ) the names of everyone in the family.
This morning Alice, for the first time, demanded that she pick out her clothes for the morning. As soon as I said to the naked little girl “Let’s put on some clothes!” she hustled over to her dresser, pointed at the drawer and said “up!” so that she could be elevated sufficiently to make her selection. She picked out a nice pair of neon, horizontally stripped pants along with a horizontally stripped purple and pink shirt. And of course, her cute little purple shoes to accessorize properly.
Mom took Alice off to a dinner recently, which Mom thought was just a buffet kind of thing but turned out to be a sit down dinner. Alice was a good girl for most of it, until she tried to take off her clothes near the end.
Alice didn’t want to go in to daycare yesterday, running away when I tried to put her coat on. Instead of chasing her down, I just told Charles it was time to go and we headed out the door. Alice, without a pause in her crying, spins around and demands to have her coat put on so that she can go to.
Alice won’t eat breakfast, but she’ll happily eat old, dried out toothpaste that one of the boys left accreting on the bathroom sink.
On Monday, Alice for the first time, asked me to sit on the potty. She didn’t do anything, but she greatly enjoyed sitting on the potty and reading books.